Comments on: Catching up with October http://www.marcusorr.com/catching-up-with-october www.MarcusOrr.com Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:15:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Marcus Orr http://www.marcusorr.com/catching-up-with-october/comment-page-1#comment-214 Marcus Orr Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:02:45 +0000 http://www.marcusorr.com/catching-up-with-october#comment-214 The conference was very interesting. It was unlike anything I've done before. It was at North Graham Baptist Church. North Graham is a small church, so there weren't many folks there (probably around 15-20 each night). But the folks that came seemed very interested and interacted well. Throughout the conference, I used this passage: Act 17:1-4 (1) Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: (2) And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, (3) Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. (4) And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. The first night focused on the uniqueness of the Bible, especially in its continuity and consistency pointing to the messiah. The point being that, if we want to be able to reason with someone from the Scripture like Paul, we need to know and trust in Scripture. The second night focused on understanding how Paul would have reasoned and explained from Scripture that Jesus is the prophesied Christ. (I considered naming that night's topic: "Christ wasn't his last name"). We covered a ton of Scripture that night. With powerpoint, I was able to pull up the Old Testament prophesies to compare with the New Testament fulfillments. The third night was one of my favorite nights. Earlier in the week, some of the folks shared that they wanted to know more about sharing their faith through discussion with folks from other religions. We contrasted how Paul's presentation differed when interacting with Jews in the synagogue in Acts 17:1-4 with how he presented to the Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers in Acts 17:16-34. In the latter account, Paul demonstrates a thorough knowledge of, not only their religion, but also their culture and arts (Paul quotes the poem Cretica written by Epimenides c. 600 b.c. in vs 28). We talked about understanding the cultures around us to improve our witness. I wrapped up the last night with a video I posted on this site before. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a look...Penn Gillette's (a confessed atheist) account of a Christian's witness and how he perceives Christians who do not proselytize. Link: http://www.marcusorr.com/a-gift-for-penn-jillette The conference was very interesting. It was unlike anything I’ve done before. It was at North Graham Baptist Church. North Graham is a small church, so there weren’t many folks there (probably around 15-20 each night). But the folks that came seemed very interested and interacted well. Throughout the conference, I used this passage:

Act 17:1-4
(1) Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
(2) And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
(3) Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
(4) And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

The first night focused on the uniqueness of the Bible, especially in its continuity and consistency pointing to the messiah. The point being that, if we want to be able to reason with someone from the Scripture like Paul, we need to know and trust in Scripture. The second night focused on understanding how Paul would have reasoned and explained from Scripture that Jesus is the prophesied Christ. (I considered naming that night’s topic: “Christ wasn’t his last name”). We covered a ton of Scripture that night. With powerpoint, I was able to pull up the Old Testament prophesies to compare with the New Testament fulfillments. The third night was one of my favorite nights. Earlier in the week, some of the folks shared that they wanted to know more about sharing their faith through discussion with folks from other religions. We contrasted how Paul’s presentation differed when interacting with Jews in the synagogue in Acts 17:1-4 with how he presented to the Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers in Acts 17:16-34. In the latter account, Paul demonstrates a thorough knowledge of, not only their religion, but also their culture and arts (Paul quotes the poem Cretica written by Epimenides c. 600 b.c. in vs 28). We talked about understanding the cultures around us to improve our witness. I wrapped up the last night with a video I posted on this site before. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a look…Penn Gillette’s (a confessed atheist) account of a Christian’s witness and how he perceives Christians who do not proselytize. Link: http://www.marcusorr.com/a-gift-for-penn-jillette

]]> By: Susanne http://www.marcusorr.com/catching-up-with-october/comment-page-1#comment-212 Susanne Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:26:39 +0000 http://www.marcusorr.com/catching-up-with-october#comment-212 Sorry you've been sick. The apologetics conference sounds very interesting! What kinds of topics did you discuss? I hope God leads you to the right ministry opportunity soon. Sorry you’ve been sick. The apologetics conference sounds very interesting! What kinds of topics did you discuss? I hope God leads you to the right ministry opportunity soon.

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