Unleashing Your Faith

1. Unleashing Your Faith Other Useful Tactics Discussing Truth and Christian Convictions 10

2. What do you believe and why do you believe it? • the authority and sufficiency of Scripture • the doctrine of the Trinity • Christ - the person, virginal conception, and two • natures of • (4) the doctrine of original sin • (5) the substitutional atonement of Jesus Christ • (6) the gospel message • (7) the Doctrines of Grace • (8) the nature and foundation of the church, • (9) ‘covenant’ theology • (10) the sacraments

4. Offense Claims Consistent with a Biblical Worldview Trinity Gravity Diety of Christ Algebra Inconsistent with a Biblical Worldview Mormonism Oneness Atheism JWs Hinduism Abortion Buddhism Islam Homosexuality Romanism Hold to “Biblical Authority” Appeal to External Authority Giving an Answer: Offense

5. If it’s not a person, then no justification is required to do whatever you want with it. If it is a person, then it deserves the same rights and protections as all other persons. Abortion Only One Question: “What is it?” Giving an Answer: Offense

6. S.L.E.D. Test Size Level of development Environment Degree of dependency Trot out the Toddler Abortion Two Key Tools Giving an Answer: Offense sled toddler

7. Homosexuality Leviticus 18:22"Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin." (NLT) Leviticus 20:13"If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense." (NLT) Giving an Answer: Offense

8. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11Don't you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people-none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (NLT) 1 Timothy 1:8-10Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine ... (ESV) Jude 7And don't forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God's judgment. (NIV)

9. Objective: “Where does the objective standard come from?” Relative: “Why stop at two men, or two women, why not polygamy, and cross-generational, and cross species?” Homosexuality Does “Marriage” have an objective meaning, or Does it mean whatever we want it to mean? Giving an Answer: Offense

10. Homosexuality If homosexuality and heterosexuality are equally valid and desirable, then logically either sexual preference becoming dominate or exclusive in either mankind or the animal world would be just fine. If heterosexuality became the exclusive preference of all living, reproducing creatures, what would that portend for the continuation of all species on earth? If homosexualitybecame the exclusive preference of all living, reproducing creatures, what would that portend for the continuation of all species on earth? Does sexuality have a purpose beyond individual pleasure?

11. Set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts • and always be ready • to give an answer • to anyone who asks • about the hope you possess, • yet do it with courtesy and respect… 1 Pet 3:15 Presuppositions Tactics Know Your Audience Credo Ambassador Model Proof, Defense, Offense Defending Your Faith