Oct 10, Tue - Responding to Culture (Part 2!) & Miracles

Next Quiz/Test: Tuesday is Quiz 3b: Learn to Discern

Handouts: None given

Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017

- Book Report: Due Monday, Nov. 14 (report on TurnItIn.com; Art Project @ start of class)

- Devotion 1 Outline: Due Oct 16 (typed submitted to TurnItIn.com by 8am)

Instructional Time: Unit 3 - Philosophy
Journal: Study Packet, Page 10
- Dr. Brown encourages us Christians to: "Build a bridge to engage the culture with Jesus’ heart & mind"
- For each of the following situations, we considered these three questions:
- - Being offended by culture?
- - Assimilating into culture?
- - Engaging the culture w/Jesus’ mind & heart?
- Here are the situations: Take notes on page 10 of your Study Packet
- - If this guy walked up to you while at the mall, how might a Christian respond if they were a Christian who was…
- - If no one ever sat with this girl at lunch, how might a Christian respond if they were a Christian who was…
- - As you are walking around, you see these teens drinking beer— how might a Christian respond if they were a Christian who was…
- Confused? Come talk with your teacher or a classmate to get clarification

“In” but not “of” the world:
- Christians are to be in the world, but not ‘of’ the world
- Consider how the Bible addresses this issue in these two verses:
- - “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” – Jesus (John 17:14-18)
- - “You are from God… They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.” – John (1 John 4:4-5)

Miracles: Study Packet, Page 3

- Miracle: God's supernatural change of the normal way history or science would go

- A Christian should not disbelieve every miracle they hear about

- - A Christian should not believe every miracle they hear about

- - A Christian should examine the evidence on a case-by-case basis

- Biblical examples of miracles: 

- - Gen 1-11) Creation, the worldwide flood, & the confusion of human language  

- - Gen 19:24) The destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah

- - Ex 7:5, 8:10, 9:14) The plagues on Egypt 

- - Ex 14:21-28) Israel crossing of Red Sea 

- - Resurrection of Jesus Christ) Seen in all 4 Gospels

- - - This is the key miracle for Christians

- - - Strong historical evidence supports this
- - - This miracle distinguishes Christianity from all other religions