- The goal is not to create converts but disciples
- We have exchanged truth for therapy
- Leadership in the Marines
- Survey the field, put your troops in the right position (ex. Reveal survey)
- Serve your troops: train them
- Motivate them by something bigger than we are
- “Follow me”
- Don’t blame the culture for our society’s problems
- Culture is nothing but religion incarnate
- The Reformation brought the Church back to orthodoxy. Our faith is so powerful that it changed the course of Western civilization
- What is Christianity?
- Is it a relationship with Jesus?
- It is a worldview
- His new book talks about 14 truths of Christianity
- God Is
- He has spoken. The Bible is inspired, inerrant
- This world is fallen
- The incarnation is about God becoming flesh to overcome Satan
- Be holy
- The Church is important because we can only love each other in community. But we treat it with little value: church shopping, where is the best music, etc.
- We are offering the world and opportunity to live a life proven over 2000 years to be grounded in truth and reality. But we need to demonstrate it by loving each other and others.