The first session in our series on A Christian Witness in Today's World. This session looks at the whole series and gives a plan for what we will be covering through out the course.

1. A cHRISTIAN
today’s world
WITNESS in
Tactics + sTRATEGIES
Relativism
The Bible
Pluralism
Islam
Sexual Revolution
Media
Training and Equipping Believers
to Live Out a Confident Faith

2. What is our Goal?

3. What Job Has Jesus
Given for Us to do?

4. And Jesus came
and spoke to them, saying,
mATTHEW 28:18
“All authority has been given to Me
in heaven and on earth…

5. Go therefore and make disciples
of all the nations
baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit..
mATTHEW 28:19

6. teaching them to observe all things
that I have commanded you
mATTHEW 28:20
and lo, I am with you always, even
to the end of the age.” Amen.

7. mATTHEW 28:18-20
The Command: Make Disciples
Baptize them in the reality of God
Teach them to observe Jesus’ teachings
Abide in Jesus’ presence

8. Now all things are of God, who has
reconciled us to Himself through
Jesus Christ
2 Corinthians 2:18
and has given us the ministry of
reconciliation

9. that is, that God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself
2 Corinthians 2:19
not imputing their trespasses to
them, and has committed to us the
word of reconciliation.

10. Now then, we are ambassadors for
Christ, as though God were pleading
through us:
2 Corinthians 2:20
we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be
reconciled to God.

11. Our Role: Ambassadors
We represent God as His ambassadors
Our goal is to see others reconciled
back to God

12. What Hinders us?

13. What obstacles do we
face as we strive
toward this goal?

14. 3 Areas

15. The Challenge of:
Authority
“Who Makes the Rules?”

16. “Who Makes the Rules?”

17. “Who Makes the Rules?”

18. “Who Makes the Rules?”

19. The Challenge of:
Worldviews
“Whose Reality is Right?”

20. “Whose Reality is Right?”

21. Culture
“We can live however we want”
The Challenge Of:

22. Authority
The Challenge of:
“Who Makes the Rules?”

23. The Challenge of Authority - Part 1:
Relativism
“True for You, But Not For Me”

24. The Challenge of Authority - Part 2:
The Bible
“The Bible is just a book written by men”

25. Worldview
The Challenge of:
“Whose Reality is Right?”

26. Pluralism
“All Roads Lead to God”
The Challenge of Worldviews - Part 1:

27. Islam
“There is no God but Allah”
The Challenge of Worldviews - Part 1:

28. Culture
The Challenge of:
“We can live however we want”

29. SEXUAL rEVOLUTION
“My body is mine and I can use it
however I wish”
The Challenge Of Culture - part 1

30. Media
“Media Doesn’t Affect Me”
The Challenge Of Culture - part 2

31. What are these?

32. “True for You, But Not For Me”
“The Bible is just a book written by men”
“All Roads Lead to God”
“There is no God but Allah”
“My body is mine and I can use it
however I wish”
“Media Doesn’t Affect Me”

33. Ideas
Have
Consequences

34. “True for You, But Not For Me”
“The Bible is just a book written by men”
“All Roads Lead to God”
“There is no God but Allah”
“My body is mine and I can use it
however I wish”
“Media Doesn’t Affect Me”

35. My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge.
Hosea 4:6

36. For the weapons of our warfare are
not carnal but mighty in God for
pulling down strongholds…
2 Corinthians 10:4

37. casting down arguments and
every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God…
2 Corinthians 10:5

38. bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5

39. And do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you
may prove what is that good and
acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2

40. MatterIdeas:

41. Shape familiesIdeas:

42. Shape CulturesIdeas:

43. Shape churchesIdeas:

44. Shape soulsIdeas:

45. Shape EterniesIdeas:

46. Shape usIdeas:

47. MatterIdeas: Greatly!

48. What is Our Plan?

49. Ambassadors

51. Ambassadors
Knowledge
Wisdom
Character
An accurately informed mind
An artful method of engagement
A warm and attractive manner

52. oUR foCUS
KnowledgeWisdom
An accurately
informed mind
An artful method
of engagement

53. tACTICS
Skills for effective discussions

54. February: TacticsOur Plan
A Christian
Witness in
Today’s World
Schedule of
Topics
Feb 2 - Tactics (Part 1)
Feb 9 - Discussion and Practice
Feb 16 - Tactics (Part 2)
Feb 23 - Discussion and Practice

55. Our Plan
A Christian
Witness in
Today’s World
Schedule of
Topics
Mar 1 - Relativism
Mar 8 - Discussion and Practice
Mar 15 - The Bible
Feb 22 - Discussion and Practice
March: aUTHORITY

56. Our Plan
A Christian
Witness in
Today’s World
Schedule of
Topics
Mar 29 - Break
March: aUTHORITY

57. Our Plan
A Christian
Witness in
Today’s World
Schedule of
Topics
Apr 5 - Pluralism
Apr 12 - Discussion and Practice
Apr 19 - Islam
Apr 26 - Discussion and Practice
April: Worldviews

58. Our Plan
A Christian
Witness in
Today’s World
Schedule of
Topics
May 3 - Sexual Revolution
May 10 - Discussion and Practice
May 17 - Media
Apr 26 - Discussion and Wrap Up
May: Culture

59. Why do this?

60. And He Himself gave some to be apostles,
some prophets, some evangelists, and
some pastors and teachers,
Ephesians 4:11

61. for the equipping of the saints for
the work of ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ
Ephesians 4:12

62. till we all come to the unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a perfect man, to the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ
Ephesians 4:13

63. that we should no longer be children,
tossed to and fro and carried about
with every wind of doctrine
Ephesians 4:14

64. by the trickery of men, in the cunning
craftiness of deceitful plotting,
Ephesians 4:14

65. but, speaking the truth in love, may
grow up in all things into Him who is
the head—Christ—
Ephesians 4:15

66. from whom the whole body, joined and
knit together by what every joint supplies,
according to the effective working by
which every part does its share
Ephesians 4:16

67. causes growth of the body for the
edifying of itself in love.
Ephesians 4:15

68. noT “bECOMING”We arE
aMBASSADORS

69. We arE aMBASSADORS

70. hIM wELL, WITH:
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An accurately informed mind
An artful method of engagement
A warm and attractive manner

71. sEE yOU next Week!

72. Tactics - Part 1
Week 2

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78. A cHRISTIAN
today’s world
WITNESS in
Men & Women - Tuesday Nights - 7-8:30p - Begins Jan 26
Topics Include:
Tactics + sTRATEGIES
Relativism
The Bible
Pluralism
Islam
Sexual Revolution
Media