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) - - 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 Eyewitness Evidence
- 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
Station 1: The Eyewitness Evidence
- Based on Chapters 1-2-3 of Case for Christ
- Can the Biographies of Jesus be trusted?
- Do the Biographies of Jesus stand up to scrutiny?
- Were the biographies of Jesus reliably preserved for us?
Station 2: The Corroborating Evidence
- 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?
Station 3: The Identity and Psychological Evidence
- Based on Chapters 7-8-9 of Case for Christ
- Who did Jesus say that He is?
- Was He convinced that He is the Son of God?
- Did Jesus fulfill the Attributes of God?
- See Also: Fr Reweis' sermons during Pascha this year covered this topic in depth
Station 4: The Fingerprint Evidence
- Based on Chapter 10 of Case for Christ
- Did Jesus and Jesus alone match the identity of the Messiah?
Conclusion
- Format: "Surrounded" by Jubilee
Interactive Stations Ideas From Previous Conventions
- Escape Room
- I think this could work really well here. Needs to be well thought out and executed
- Blocks Game
- Someone did a game before with all the books of the Bible written on blocks and they had to order them or stack them. Could work very well for the "Fingerprint evidence" (Prophecies)
- Court Case
- I think this can work really well in a topic like this... examining the specific kinds of evidence and scrutinizing them
- TikTok Station
- Finding relevant TikToks and responding to them, even recording the response that each kid would give
- Podcast Station
- This can also work really well. Needs good preparation for exactly what will be said and how
- Museum Station
- This could work really well for a Documentary Evidence station, but a craft may be more effective here