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Windows ofOpportunity
Helping folks discover Jesus Christ
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Truth comes at 3 levels:
Theoretical(Objective)
Existential(Illustrative)
Pragmatic (Subjective)
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As ironic modern worshippers we
congregate at the cinematic temple.
We pay our votive offerings at the box
office.
We buy our ritual corn.We hush in reverent anticipation as the
lights go down and the celluloid magic
begins.Throughout the filmic narrative we
identify with the hero. We vilify the anti-
hero
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We victoriously exult in the victories ofthe drama.
And we are spiritually inspired by the
moral of the story, all the while believing
we are modern techno-secular people,
devoid of religion.
Yet the depth of our participation reveals a
religious fervor that is not much differentfrom that of religious zealots.
- Jeffrey Hill.
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Right to be wrong?
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Kitchen Table Talk
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CA is verbal & non-verbal; It incorporates the local
idiom, language, methods, & culturally sensitive
approaches
CA is wholistic, responds to the felt and unfelt
needs of our culture
CA calls for preparation (spiritual & otherwise..)
Reflects our Creator & Redeemer
Creative apologetics (CA) is sharing the Gospel in a
way that the hearer does not miss the message (a-f)
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C. Ravi Zacharias: Listening andConnecting to the Cries of the Heart
B. Francis Schaeffer: Taking others
ideas seriously
Lessons from the Examples of Key Apologists
A. C.S. Lewis on desire
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Everybodys looking
for something.
May we help to point them to theright place and in the right Way.
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Seeking and making
Connections
(a) World of movies
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Seeking and making
Connections
(b) Quotes & Quips
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Woody AllenTake the Bananas and Run
At 72, a superstitiousWoody Allen is stillworking hard, but is
terrified of the void, themeaningless flicker oflife
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In real life he believes there areno happy endingsThe trains all
go to the same place.They all go to the dump
You have a meal, or you listento a piece of music, and its
pleasurable. But, it doesnt accrueto anything.
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Your perception of
time changes as you get
older, because you see
how brief everything is.You see how
meaninglesslife has
no meaning
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Begin with the end in view
Last things first!
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Stephen Hawking has a question!
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Seeking and making
Connections(c) Some personal examples of
engagement
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(One Christmas Night @ the Call centre)
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Vantage point!
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The call from God!
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Change for a change!
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Seeking and making
Connections
(d) Some more Leads for engaging
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The Relevance and Uniqueness of
Jesus Christ
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THERES PROBABLY A GOD,NOW STOP WORRYING AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE
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TheSecondChopra
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Its all in Your hands!
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Our times are in His hands.
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Live-in on the edge
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Unusual Wisdom
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Art exhibitions
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The earth is charged with the grandeur of God.
~ Gerald Manely Hopkins
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Gather accurate data
Consult Scripture
Consider redemptive engagement
Define a plan
THE PROCESS
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The business of the church is to tell and
to embody a story, the Story of Godsmighty acts in creation and redemption
and Gods promises concerning what will
be in the end. The church affirms thetruth of this story by celebrating it,
interpreting it, and enacting it in the life
of the contemporary world. It has noother way of affirming its truth.
Proper Confidence by Leslie Newbigin
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Our focus and our aim, is to
find ever-relevant ways and
means, with a view to seeing
men and women reconciled
to God.
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Exercise on CA
Relevant Stories (level 2 communication) Questions that matter
Caricatures
T-shirt slogans / bands / caps
Lifestyle apologetic (POA)
Local Idioms like 3 Idiots / Poems
Methods that matter (Coffee house
discussions)
Ad zap
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