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Outline

Key Verse


Goals

Resources

  • The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel
  • Evidence that Demands a Verdict - Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell
  • Timeless Truth in Truthless Times - George Bassilious
    • Chapter2 27-35 specifically deal with "Questions about the Bible"

Stations

Introduction

A Movie put on by the servants/youth that introduces the same/similar premise as the beginning of Case for Christ. In the movie, our "Lee Strobel" is a lawyer or a journalist, and he has a team of four (servants who will act as the tour guide: one from HSB, MSB, HSG, MSG) that he charges at the end of the movie to go and investigate. He'll introduce the four pieces of evidence they are looking for:

Need to choose from these what can make a compelling station, and what is most relevant for our times.

If possible for this to be a two-day convention (e.g. at Lake Yale), that may also be good to cover more material. We could also have a intro on day 2 that summarizes the reliability of the Gospels, and brings Lee back asking "ok what about Jesus Himself?" introducing the second day.

  • The Eyewitness Evidence
    • Can the gospels be trusted (Ch 1 CfC)
    • Do the gospels stand up to scrutiny (Ch 2 CfC)
  • 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) - - not sure what this chapter means. Need to read it again
  • 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)

The four servants (and Lee) should be dressed in a costume that they will wear on the day of the Apologetics

Station 1: 
Station 2: 
Station 3: 
Station 4: 
Conclusion

A Movie that brings back the four to summarize and conclude the evidence. The conclusion can have a "post-credit scene" that teases next year's apologetics convention which will be about the Resurrection

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