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•  Empowering others with Truth that will lead to an integrated faith - exhibiting itself in everyday life. All planning and execution of our class will ask the questions “So what?” and “Now what?”. The purpose of this is to bring the teaching of God’s Word from being a merely intellectual exercise to developing a practical, meaningful, and applicable view that makes a difference in our everyday lives.

•  Providing a more "holistic' view of the Christian life by demonstrating how all Truth fits into a comprehensive biblical worldview. By understanding how one distinguishes what a worldview is, it’s different components and how it compares to other competing worldviews will hopefully raise up our worldview to a more conscious level. The battle to eliminate the dichotomist view of two spheres “secular” and “sacred” will be at the forefront.

•  Equipping each member with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need in order to implement, share and discuss the Truth in their own homes, workplace and community. This class will incorporate teaching, handouts, evaluations, essays, webites, articles, video clips, reading references, testimony- whatever it takes to communicate the various aspects of having a fully integrated faith in one’s life. We will utilize our webpage to provide links for further study, reading, practical applications that can be used in the home, statistics etc.

•  Challenging members to look outside the walls of the classroom to serve others with a renewed confidence that they have a ready defense of their faith. As we become more comfortable with what we truly believe and WHY it is that we believe it, we can be wise as serpents and harmless as doves as God gives us the opportunities to be the witnesses and Ambassadors He has called us to be.

•  Informing and encouraging participation in pertinent cultural, civic and social events that may help to broaden their biblical perspectives. There are many opportunities within our culture to engage the world (and the corresponding worldviews) in such a manner as to become salt and light to those outside of the Church. Many activities (such as civic duties) are the response of being faithful stewards to what God has provided for us in the society and culture we live in. It is not our task to isolate ourselves from the world but rather to insulate ourselves, staying true to the beliefs that we live in while challenging and enlightening others concerning theirs.  

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"Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power." - Colossians 2:8-10

" But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. - 1 Peter 3:15-16

"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." - 2 Timothy 2:15
 

 

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