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Outline

Key Verse


Goals

  • To reintroduce the youth to the Scripture in an interactive and memorable way
  • To answer questions related to the Scripture: origin, inspiration, inerrancy, canonicity, etc.
  • Day 1 (6/19) is Middle School Boys and Girls
  • Day 2 (6/20) is High School Boys and Girls

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"
  • ACTS

Stations

Biblical
Introduction
Apologetics

A CourseMovie 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.

Stations

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

Station 1: Introduction to Your Bible
  • What are the books of the Scripture?
  • How are the books categorized? Which books fall into each genre?
  • When/how are the books used by the Church (e.g. in the Lectionary)
  • Who wrote these books?
  • What is inspiration? What does it mean that the Holy Spirit "wrote" the Bible?
Station 2: Where did the Bible come from?
  • What is canonization? Who decided which books go into the OT? And the NT?
  • What about translation? Do some things get lost in translation? Are some translations better than others?
  • What about chapters and verses?
  • How do we know that we have the right words that were actually spoken by Christ?
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    • This station can be presented as a "museum" or a "showroom" that includes several archaeological findings that support details written in the Scripture, as well as some examples of manuscripts
Station 3: Do the Gospels contradict themselves?
  • Why is there differences between the Gospels? Does that affect the authenticity of the Gospels?
  • Did the Lord Jesus cleanse the temple on Sunday or Monday?
  • Did the Maries go to the tomb while it is dark or at dawn?
  • etc.
Station 4: Does
Conclusion

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    that take place in Joshua and Judges? Did God really command them to kill whole cities?
  • This stems from a common attack nowadays which takes difficult passages like those in the Book of Judges and asks for an explanation, or takes some verses out of context to present a distorted image
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