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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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