Outline

Key Verse 

 

 Registration 

 https://sro.breezechms.com/form/285ecb80   

 Goals 

 Are the Gospels Reliable 

 Is Jesus who He says He is (and who we say He is) 

 Resources 

 The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel

 The Eyewitness Evidence

 Can the gospels be trusted (Ch 1) 

 Do the gospels stand up to scrutiny (Ch 2) 

 

 The Documentary Evidence

 Were the gospels reliably preserved? (Ch 3) 

 Is there evidence for Jesus outside of the Gospels? (Ch )4 

 

 The Scientific Evidence

 Archaeology (Ch 5) 

 

 The Rebuttal Evidence

 Is Jesus of History same as Jesus of Faith? (Ch 6) 

 

 The Identity and Psychological Evidence

 Was Jesus really convinced that He is the Son of God? (Ch 7) 

 Was Jesus crazy when he claimed to be Son of God? (Ch 8) 

 

 The Profile and Fingerprint Evidence

 Does Jesus fulfill the attributes of God? (Ch 9) 

 Did Jesus - and Jesus alone - match the identity of the Messiah? (Ch 10) 

 

 

 Evidence that Demands a Verdict - Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell 

 Timeless Truth in Truthless Times - George Bassilious 

 Stations 

 Introduction 

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C0-aYx7nh3ruQClDvdOZPGW1SJKy0dh-8Syg7A1DhU4/edit?tab=t.0   

 A Short movie about a youth who attends church but doesn't really pay attention... then, at school, he's challenged with questions about what the Gospels are, and who Jesus is. He doesn't know how to answer. He decides to commit himself to answering those questions in preparation for "the final debate" 

 He will document his findings in a notebook called "The Case for Christ" 

 The Notebook 

 Servants:

 Emily Guirguis 

 

 

 Station 1: The Eyewitness Evidence 

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/16WsKes1g0Nk7OdMCDefYRNsy2PAsokjD29HUfZ8eWW8/edit?tab=t.g86rjx3nh647 

 Document has several tabs 

 

  Servants:

 Philopateer Ayad (prep) 

 Youssef Isshak (prep) 

 Carine Hanna 

 Mathio Marzouk 

 Andrew Gouni 

 Maryam Mekhail 

 Sarah Gouni 

 

 Based on Chapters 1-2-3 of Case for Christ

 Can the Biographies of Jesus be trusted?

 Were they really written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 

 How early were they written and is that close enough to the actual events 

 "We did not follow cunningly devised fables" 

 

 Do the Biographies of Jesus stand up to scrutiny? 

 Were the biographies of Jesus reliably preserved for us? 

 

 Format: Escape Room

 Finding manuscripts (ch 3) 

 Finding extra-biblical sources like Papias of Hierapolis (ch 1) 

 Putting them all together... maybe in an evidence board 

 Board summarizes everything at the end 

 Take an "escape room" picture with the board at the end 

 

 Notebook Relation:

 The pictures get printed for their notebook 

 They can "take home a manuscript" (e.g. P52 because it's tiny) 

 Printed out version of the evidence board that can be pasted in notebook and folds out (because it's big) 

 Summary Sheet 

 

 Station 2: The Corroborating Evidence  

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-4Q3XW0UL0ZzNa5qw6Z7UedrNstRO1wEbgq05XKRDe0/edit?tab=t.0   

  Servants:

 Carole Hanna 

 Mena Ibrahim 

 Youssab Mena 

 Sara Ayad 

 

 Based on Chapters 4-5 of Case for Christ

 Is there Credible Evidence for Jesus outside His Biographies? 

 Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies? 

 

 Court Case

 Different youth could be "expert witnesses" on various topics 

 The boys and girls can take turns being the "panel of judges" (three at a time?) for each "charge" to judge the evidence at the end and give a verdict 

 Or the boys and girls can be jury 

 

 Notebook Relation:

 As a jury you can note the evidence - worksheet style (like SM HEMY Topics but better) 

 

 Station 3: The Identity and Psychological Evidence 

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mX84dH84UISFpQn7Qve-_bbJlzWahyRjkVGPEVpfbFQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.6q7canpp7fik   

  Servants:

 Mirolla Hanna 

 Daniel Mena 

 Daniel Mansour (Mon) 

 Youssif Ibrahim (Wed) 

 Maria Awad 

 Julianna Dimetry 

 

 Based on Chapters 7-8 of Case for Christ

 Who did Jesus say that He is? 

 Was He convinced that He is the Son of God? 

 

 See Also: Fr Reweis' sermons during Pascha this year covered this topic in depth 

 Format:

 Podcast

 Need someone who is good "off the cuff" / "on their feet" to be one of the "hosts" 

 Use the kids if possible

 Doctors 

 Bible Experts 

 

 Intro and then talk to the audience 

 

 Skit

 Like a medical case - finding a diagnosis 

 Two folders - each has papers of symptoms, details, etc. relevant to diagnosis 

 Individual A: Signs that show some disorder (bipolar, identity, etc.) 

 Individual B (Christ): Evidences that Lee Strobel outlined that show Christ was completely sane

 e.g. "This person made bold claims like..." 

 

 Kids' job is to diagnose the case 

 

 

 Station 4: The Fingerprint Evidence 

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/14znGpm18Bjsx1ieLUq-mq7vdkfM54GtfHRKlYbqnrKI/edit?tab=t.9tylvudwltw   

  Servants:

 Emily Guirguis 

 Ehab Khalil 

 Monika Awad 

 Mark N Ibrahim 

 

 Based on Chapters 9-10 of Case for Christ

 Did Jesus and Jesus alone match the identity of the Messiah? 

 Did Jesus fulfill the Attributes of God? 

 

 Format: Iconography Station

 Give an outline of an icon of Christ (in the notebook) 

 They need to write some attributes of God that we recognize in the Lord Jesus Christ in different colors to color the icon 

 

 

 

 

 Conclusion 

 Format: "Surrounded" by Jubilee 

 Servant: Susie Zambrano