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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. If it's two days, that may also give us time to watch the actual Case for Christ movie at the end of Day 2.

  • 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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