My Mission:
In our Generation we have seen an all
out assault on our Christian faith. We live in a culture that is influencing
our children to create their own religious beliefs based more on what they
think than on what the Bible teaches. The message they receive from
television shows and movies is that all religions are false. Many media
types even call Christians stupid fools and are a danger to the world. Hebrews 13:4-6
Most Christians are not equipped to resist rabidly
anti-Christian people who are intent on converting them to atheism.
Intellectual skepticism is one of the major reasons why they walk away.
College professors are five times more likely to identify themselves as
atheists than the general public.
More than half of all college professors view evangelical Christian students unfavorably.
(See article at Free Republic). 70-75% of Christian youth leave the church
after high school (See survey data at Barna and USA Today).
The reason for this exodus is that Christian youth in America are not being
taught to cross examine the skeptical and atheistic views they encounter
when they leave home. Some think church is irrelevant. Others, out on their
own for the first time, are attracted by all the world has to offer and put
God on the back burner. Yet many leave because they’ve come to doubt
Christianity. In fact, intellectual skepticism is a major reason cited by
those who have left. Now less than one percent of adults in America have a
Biblical worldview!
We can lay the blame for much
of this on ourselves — that is, on the church. While there are notable
exceptions, most American churches over-emphasize emotion and ignore the
biblical commands to develop the mind (1 Pet 3:15, 2 Cor. 10:5). In other
words, we’re doing a great job performing for our youth with skits, bands
and videos, but a terrible job informing them with logic, truth, and a
Christian worldview. We’ve failed to recognize that what we win them with we
win them to. If we win them with emotion, we win them to emotion. Now, I
don’t want to discount the importance of emotion.
If the Bible is true as I will teach on this web class, that God does want
us to love Him with all of our hearts. But He also wants us to love Him with
our minds (Mt. 22:37). Christians don't get Brownie points for being stupid!
We're supposed to know what we believe and why we believe it. And for good
reason emotion alone is not enough to protect Christian students as they
leave the protection of their home or make them bold witnesses for those
they meet. When they leave the home with nothing more than good sentimental
feelings about Christ, they are easy prey for anti-Christian people intent
on undermining their faith.
So what's the solution?
The good news is that we can do something about it!
Starting by presenting them with factual answers to take the fight to those
who willfully try to lead your Sons and Daughters away from God.
I am enthusiastic committed to teach and to humble
defend why we believe in the God of the Bible. My mission is give reason why
Christianity is true, how to defend it, and how to tactfully refute those
who try to corrupt them.
I have named this Web Site
“Boot Camp Training for Front Line Combat” out of my own personal
experiences while using Biblical references throughout the Old and New
Testament. Time after time we read numerous references to, fight the good
fight, run the race to win, put on the full armor of God, and gird up your
loins for waging war against the worlds evil forces.
Scientific studies have shown by the age of seven personality is set. – Our
personalities stay pretty much the same throughout our lives, from age 7
until old age, according to a new study. The results show personality traits
observed in children as young as age 7 are a strong predictor of adult
behavior. Previous research has suggested that while our personalities can
change, it’s not an easy undertaking.
Now on a
Spiritual level, It is only through a personal relationship with God guided
by the indwelt power of the Holy Spirit that are old personality traits are
transformed into His character It is truly a lifelong process. Ephesians
4:21-23-- put off your old self, ---to be made new in the attitude of your
minds;
Course material that I will cover is as
follows:
1. Put on the full armor of God
2. Is the Bible Personally
from God (Josh McDowell)
3. 12 Points that show that Christianity is true
(I don't have enough Faith to be an Atheist series)
4. Scientific facts
of the Bible
5. How to defend Creation verse Evolution
6. The truth
about reality is knowable "this is undeniable" (Frank Turek & Norman
Geisler)
7. The Law of Non-contradiction (Frank Turek & Norman Geisler)
8. Manuscript evidence of the new and Old Testament
How to share your
faith effectively (The Way of the Master Series)
So
let us begin by training every Christian both young and old to run the Race
to Win it.
1 Corinthians 9:23-25 Run the Race to
Win
I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a
fellow partaker of it. Do you not know that those who run in a race all run,
but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things they
then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we have so great a
cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance
and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the
race that is set before us,
Yes, We are in a War
Ephesians 6:10-13 Be prepared to put on the full Armor
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the
full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the
schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but
against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this
darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist
in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.
War against our own flesh
1 Peter 2:11-12
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts
which wage war against the soul. Keep your behavior excellent among the
Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they
may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day
of visitation.
Fight the good fight
1 Timothy 1:18
This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in
accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them
you fight the good fight,
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of
faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made
the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I
have kept the faith;
Do not be afraid
Matthew 10:27-29
27"What I tell you in the darkness, speak
in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the
housetops. 28"Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the
soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29"Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall
to the ground apart from your Father. 30"But the very hairs of your head are
all numbered. 31"So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you
but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to
be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide
the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
John
16:32-33
"Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be
scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not
alone, because the Father is with Me. "These things I have spoken to you, so
that in Me you may have peace In the world you have tribulation, but take
courage; I have overcome the world."
for He himself has said, "I will never desert
you, nor will I ever forsake you,"
So that we confidently say, "the lord
is my helper, I will not be afraid, what will man do to me?"
God grace
working in us is the source of our strength
1 John 4:4
You are from
God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is
in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory
that has overcome the world--our faith.
Romans 8:37But in all these
things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
2nd
Corinthians 12:9 And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for
power is perfected in weakness” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast
about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
Philippians 4:12-14
I know how to get along with
humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every
circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry,
both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him
who strengthens me.
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