Pre-Evangelism
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 : By Hugh Williams
On Sunday, the Gospel Conversations class discussed “pre-evangelism.” What’s that? If “evangelism” is “telling people about the good news,” then “pre-evangelism” is what you do before you tell people the good news. After all, “take up your cross and follow me” is not good news unless you know the whole story.
D.A. Carson has written a helpful article on Acts 17 in which he outlines the need for explaining the “big story” of the Bible in our evangelism:
Paul at the Areopagus in Athens has established an entire frame of reference before he gets to Jesus. He has challenged the Greek worldview with his JudeoChristian worldview. If he had presented clichés like “Jesus died
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The Dark Knight is a Window on the Gospel
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 : By Hugh Williams
Yesterday I indulged in a little one-sided provocation to get some conversation going. Taking Justin Taylor’s callout to two blogs that commented on The Dark Knight as a starting point, I basically asked for commentary on the commentary. I don’t think I ever explicitly agreed with the commentary (I didn’t intend to), though it certainly provides some food for thought about the way we consume entertainment.
But I confess that I had an agenda:
1. I wanted show the value of asking questions to make people think and start (and sustain) a conversation.
2. I wanted to stimulate Gospel-centered thinking about something that will come up in conversation (the latest Hollywood blockbuster) so that we can
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The God Questions, Part 4
Sunday, April 20th, 2008 : By Leadership Team
God is a big topic and people have tons of questions so we asked people what were some “God Questions” they would like to see discussed. Today, we talk about “Why do you believe God even exists?”
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Creation, Part 1
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 : By Ken Rutherford
The Doctrine of God: Week 19
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, by Wayne Grudem.
Chapter 14, Creation: Why, how, and when did God create the universe?
This week we begin a discussion on why, how, and when God created the universe. We begin with overviewing the topic and discussing the points which Christians generally find agreement on.
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