Christ The Only Way

Really great video by R.C. Sproul




(HT: NA Blog)

Don't Waste Your Easter!

In the spirit of John Piper's Don't Waste Your Life...

Easter is a great opportunity to invite our unbelieving friends out to church events like the Good Friday service or Easter Sunday. Though many of our friends do not go to church, many are willing to go on Easter (and Christmas...aka C & E'rs). Maybe they go out of obligation or tradition or for another reason - regardless, why not make the most out of this weird c&e'r phenomenon and invite them to Covenant. I challenge you all to invite at least one person to church this Friday and one to church this Sunday (or both to both)!

This is also a perfect (and probably the easiest) time to dialogue with our friends about spiritual things. To get into a spiritual conversation using Easter you could merely ask one of the following:

Do you celebrate Easter? Why? Why not?
What's the big deal about Easter anyway?
Do you believe that Jesus actually rose from the dead as Christians say he did?
Are you participating in lent? Why? Why not?
Do you like the easter bunny? (that's not a joke)

Take heart, the gospel is unstoppable!

1 Corinthians 2
1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Clogged Hard Drives

D.A. Caron has a very insightful article on how we ought to do evangelism in our post-everything culture. Click here for the full article.

Dr. Carson essentially expounds how Paul evangelized to the Athenians in Acts 17:22-31.

excerpts:

Today we are dealing with a major worldview clash. People are not empty discs on which we seek to write new files of truth. Rather their hard drives are clogged with other files. There are some things they need to unlearn because the files they already have on their discs have so many bits that clash with the files (designed by Scripture) that we want to write on them. This communication process takes time and energy.

He goes on to say...

Paul at the Areopagus in Athens has established an entire frame of reference before he gets to Jesus. He has challenged the Greek worldview with his JudeoChristian worldview. If he had presented clichés like 'Jesus died for your sins' before he had established the appropriate frame of reference, people would necessarily have misunderstood what he was saying.

We too, today, in our biblically illiterate society need to establish this biblical framework. This might take five minutes, five hours or five years, but at some stage we have to do it.

Church Based Campus Ministry

This is a very helpful sermon from NA 2004.

It will give you Compelling Reasons to take the Gospel to the Campus!

It's very practical.