How To Equip Youth To Trust God’s Word

How To Equip Youth To Trust God’s Word
Five Paragraph Order the acronym SMEAC: "S" Situation, "M" Mission, "E" Execution, "A" Administration/Logistics, "C" Command/Signal. Mike Riddle

A Briefing Situation Mission Execution
I am here to give you a briefing. In the Marine Corps we called It the 5 paragraph order. It is the situation the plan of action and how to achieve victory Situation - Mission - Execution

Entertainment, Games and some Bible
Part 1 Situation Mission Execution Youth Rally Marathon Entertainment, Games and some Bible

Three Independent Studies
Answers in Genesis and The American Research Group Barna Group 70% Defends Christianity Challenges against the Bible come in many forms. Challenges come from the cultist, from atheists, from religious people, and from the media. No matter what form the challenge takes, when the Christian can defend the faith effectively, it justifies Christianity to the non-believer. Strengthens believers The Bible teaches in Romans 1:19-20 that God has given us all the evidence we need for belief in a Creator and no one has an excuse for not believing. The Christian can use God’s evidences (His Creation, which includes all natural laws) to reassure believers, especially new believers who may harbor doubts, that their faith is grounded on objective truths that are confirmed by verifiable evidence. Makes the Bible relevant Although many of the current attacks against Christianity are the same as those that confronted the early church, each generation has its own set of particular challenges. Today one of the main attacks comes from the teaching of evolution. Apologetics provides the resources we need to meet this challenge head-on. Glorifies God The foremost purpose of apologetics is to bring glory to God. By defending the truths of God, we defend His honor and name. Helps believers evangelize the lost Apologetics involves more than just defending Christianity against skeptics and critics. It involves being capable of challenging the truth-claims of other worldviews. In 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 Christians are mandated to do three things: Bring down all imaginations and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God Bring all opposing thoughts into captivity and to the obedience of Christ Demonstrates obedience Nehemiah Institute

“Top 10 Reasons Our Kids Leave Church”
“The statistics are jaw-droppingly horrific: 70% of youth stop attending church when they graduate from High School… The American Evangelical church has lost, is losing, and will almost certainly continue to lose OUR YOUTH.” Marc Yoder, “Top 10 Reasons Our Kids Leave Church”, July 2013,

“Six Reasons Young People Leave the Church” David Kinnaman (President Barna Group)
“Anti-science: Up to one-third say the church is out of step on scientific developments and debate.” David Kinnaman (President Barna Group), “Six Reasons Young People Leave the Church”,

Learning about evolution when I went to college.
Pew Research, “Why America’s ‘nones’ left religion behind”, Aug 2016. Learning about evolution when I went to college. Rational thought makes religion go out the window. Lack of any sort of scientific evidence of a creator. Pew Research, “Why America’s ‘nones’ left religion behind”, August 24, 2016 Nones = no religions preference – “Christian” youth who left the church

Enforced secular education [the teaching of evolutionism]
“Ten reasons millennials are backing away from God and Christianity”, Dr. Alex McFarland (Director for Christian Worldview and Apologetics at North Greenville University.) Enforced secular education [the teaching of evolutionism] The teaching of moral relativism and tolerance

“Why Young People Leave the Church”
Ken Ham and Avery Foley “Why Young People Leave the Church” “These young people are not getting solid answers from church leaders and parents but, sadly, are often told they can believe in the big bang, millions of years, and evolution; they’re then admonished to reinterpret or ignore Genesis while being told to “trust in Jesus!” Ken Ham and Avery Foley (MA Theological Studies), on September 8, 2016

Brian Rohrbough (son Dan was murdered in the Columbine massacre), “Heavenly or Earthly Treasures,” IndoctriNation, 2012, p. 20. “Looking back, I realize that my church upbringing didn’t stand a chance against all of the immersive ‘education’ that I’d received.”

Don Bierle (Ph.D., Life Sciences), Surprised by Faith, 1992, p. 2.
“At that time [14 years old], and during the subsequent few years, I did not see the church as a source of answers…. During this time I mentally either discarded or challenged much of traditional Christian teaching about the Bible, creation, Jesus Christ and salvation. I was asking ‘why,’ and could not find answers.”

Randy Douglass, (Ph.D., Professor of Ministry), “Closing the Back Door: The Need for Christian Education”, Oct 21, 2009. “The primary reason adolescents are going AWOL is because of a deep distrust in the Bible. These adolescents had questions about the Bible that were not sufficiently answered.” AWOL gone over the hill – quit (most in the church have never started the race.)

Voddie Baucham, Jr. (M. Div. , D. Min. , D. D
Voddie Baucham, Jr. (M.Div., D.Min., D.D.), “IndoctriNation, 2012, p. 263. “The correlation is clear: If we continue to send our children to Caesar for their education, we need to stop being surprised when they come home as Romans.”

When did you first have doubts about the Bible?
Don’t know Elem school College Middle school High school 1.6% 4.4% 10.6% 39.8% 43.7%

Atheist Indoctrination Project
2007 Dinesh D’Souza October 15th, 2007, The Atheist Indoctrination Project

“It seems atheists have developed a comprehensive strategy to win the minds of the next generation.
The strategy can be described simply: let the religious people breed them, and we will educate them to despise their parents' beliefs…. In fact, it is to a large degree orchestrated by teachers and professors to promote anti-religious agendas.” The objective of science education, according to biologist Richard Lewontin, “is not to provide the public with knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of.” Rather, “the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, science, as the only begetter of truth.” How is all this to be achieved? The answer is simple: through indoctrination in the schools. Dinesh D'Souza The atheist indoctrination project

Northern Arizona University
Freshman honors class “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America”. Chris Hedges (graduate of Harvard Divinity School, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner) Personal to me FYI - My daughter's freshman honors class at Northern Arizona University is "discussing" a book by Chris Hedges called "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America". The whole purpose of the class appears to be Christian bashing. - i.e. let's get these freshman in line with our ideology right off the bat and let those "others" know what their place is. One girl in her class made the comment, after several class discussions, "I didn't know Christians were so bad." Mission accomplished, huh? Hedges challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society. according to Hedges, ‘Genesis was not written to explain the process of creation, of which these writers knew nothing. It was written to help explain the purpose of creation...to help us grasp a spiritual truth, not a scientific or historical fact. The whole purpose of the class appears to be Christian bashing One girl in her class made the comment, after several class discussions, "I didn't know Christians were so bad."

“Followers [Evangelical Christians] in the movement are locked within closed systems of information and indoctrination that cater to their hates and prejudices.” “Most of America’s fundamentalist and evangelical churches are led by pastors who peddle this non-reality belief system, one that embraces magic, the fiction of a ‘Christian nation’…”. Page 27 of the book “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America”. Hedges equates evangelical Christians to the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ‘30s.

“I didn't know Christians were so bad.”
Comment from a student who attended the class: “I didn't know Christians were so bad.” The teacher has done his job

Comment from the mother of a student:
“Don't Christians realize what their children will be up against? And if they do, why aren't they preparing their children for these battles?”

The Great Deceiver John 8:44b
… he [the Devil] was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. Gen 3: 1-5 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Satan’s first lie was a half-truth (Gen 3:4-5)

Question Will the church, Christian schools, Christian universities, and parents ever decide to combat/fix this problem? STOP PLAYING CHURCH

Part 2 Situation Mission Execution

Mission Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen Matthew 28:19-20 To do this we must maintain a biblical worldview Mat 22:37 heart, soul and mind John 17:17 sanctified by His Word (the Bible must be our authority) Rom 12:2 Renew our minds Then 2 Tim 2:15 study to show ourselves approved 2 Tim 2:2 make disciples

Great Commission It is the last recorded personal instruction given by Jesus to His disciples. It is a special calling from Jesus Christ to all His followers to take specific action while on this earth. There are four words that explain what Jesus is telling us to do. To do this we must maintain a biblical worldview Mat 22:37 heart, soul and mind John 17:17 sanctified by His Word (the Bible must be our authority) Rom 12:2 Renew our minds Then 2 Tim 2:15 study to show ourselves approved 2 Tim 2:2 make disciples

Matthew 28: 19-20 Go (going – participle, “ing”)
Disciple (verbal imperative – command) Baptizing (participle, “ing”) Teaching (participle, “ing”) “nations” = ethnos (gentiles or “races”)

We must understand and teach the complete Gospel message to be able to fulfill our mission.
Gal 1:6-9 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. Know the Gospel Share the Gospel Defend the Gospel

Part 3 Situation Mission Execution

Teaching the Gospel John 3:16 John 3:17
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. Must understand the bad news to fully understand the good news

No Hope The Bad News Gen 1:1 The beginning
Gen 1:31 A perfect beginning Gen 2: One warning Gen 3:6 Rebellion (sin) Gen 3:17-19 God keeps His promise (death) Rom 6:23a Wages of sin is death Mat 5:48 God demands perfection Rom 3:23 No one is perfect Isa 59:2 Separated from God No Hope

The Gospel The Good News Gen 3:15 Promise of victory
John 3:16 Promise fulfilled 1 Cor 15:3-4 The core of the Gospel 2 Cor 7:10 Repent (leads to salvation) Rom 6:23b A free gift Eph 2:8-9 Works not good enough Rom 5:8 God demonstrates His love John 14:6 Only one way Eph 2:4-5 God’s grace Rom 1:19-20 No excuses Rom 10:9 Confess/believe “What Happened in the Garden” in those two sentences of his introduction. How the Church reads Genesis affects its comprehensive understanding of the rest of Scripture and the world in general. If the believer does not rightly understand the gospel” Dr. Abner Chou, (Th.D.) professor of biblical studies (Greek and Hermeneutics) at The Master's College, The Gospel

No Hope The Bad News Gen 1:1 The beginning
Gen 1:31 A perfect beginning Gen 2: One warning Gen 3:6 Rebellion (sin) Gen 3:17-19 God keeps His promise (death) Rom 6:23a Wages of sin is death Mat 5:48 God demands perfection Rom 3:23 No one is perfect Isa 59:2 Separated from God No Hope

Man’s Wisdom No Hope The Bad News Evolution Millions of years
Not real history Gen 1:1 The beginning Gen 1:31 A perfect beginning Gen 2: One warning Gen 3:6 Rebellion (sin) Gen 3:17-19 God keeps His promise (death) Rom 6:23a Wages of sin is death Mat 5:48 God demands perfection Rom 3:23 No one is perfect Isa 59:2 Separated from God No Hope

Foundation for the Gospel Literal Interpretation
The Fall (Sin) Creation 6 Days (Perfect) Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.

Foundation for the Gospel Millions of Years
The Fall (Sin) Creation Adam Eve Millions of Years ? Death Before Sin Ting Wang (Ph.D. Biblical Studies and Hebrew Scholar) “Often, people will use the old argument that we should concentrate on preaching the Gospel, rather than get distracted by ‘side-issues’ such as Creation. But if we cannot believe the record of Creation, then why believe the record of the New Creation (‘if anyone is in Christ, he is a New Creation; the old is gone, the new has come!’) – 2 Corinthians 5:17?” Ting Wang (Ph.D. Biblical Studies and Hebrew Scholar), “Hebrew Scholar Affirms That Genesis Means What It Says!”, Creation, Sep-Nov, 2005. Brandon van der Ventel, Ph.D. Physics “If the story of the fall of Man is ‘mythology’ then there is no need for a plan of salvation.” Brandon van der Ventel, Ph.D. Physics, “Nuclear Scientist Shares His Creation Faith”, Creation, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2012. John MacArthur sums up what we have been saying “So in an important sense, everything Scripture says about our salvation through Jesus Christ hinges on the literal truth of what Genesis 1-3 teachers about Adam’s creation and fall.” John MacArthur (Ph.D.), Think Biblically!, 2003, p.62. Jeffry Tompkins, Ph.D. Genetics. “It seemed obvious to me that if I accepted the New Testament message of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection that I must also accept the biblical revelation regarding six-day creation. Especially since Jesus himself cited Genesis 1 and 2 in declaring that man was created ‘from the beginning of creation’”. Jeffry Tompkins, Ph.D. Genetics, “Geneticist Praises The Creator”, Creation, Vol. 38 No. 4, 2016.

Understanding the Gospel
Our Response Attack Jesus Christ God’s Solution The Foundation The Bible’s History (Time) Man’s Rebellion (Sin) Until the church understands this and teaches it, we will continue to lose 70%. God’s Perfect Creation Genesis 1:31

The Battle for Foundations
Mattill, A. J., Jr., “Three Cheers for the Creationists,” Free Inquiry, vol. 2 (Spring 1982). “And the creationists have also shown irrefutably that those liberal and neo-orthodox Christians who regard the creation stories as myths or allegories are undermining the rest of Scripture, This slide helps establish who understands the battle – it is mostly not the church, but the atheist. continued

for if there was no Adam, there was no fall; and if there was no fall there was no hell; and if there was no hell, there was no need of Jesus as Second Adam and Incarnate Savior, crucified and risen. As a result, the whole biblical system of salvation collapses. . . Evolution thus becomes the most potent weapon for destroying the Christian faith.” The atheists understand that they do not have to directly attack the whole Bible or the Gospel. They know that if they attack the foundation (where the church is weak) the rest of Scripture also crumbles. Mattill, A. J., Jr., “Three Cheers for the Creationists,” Free Inquiry, vol. 2 (Spring 1982).

Jim Wilson (U. S. Naval Academy, Korean War, Director of Community Christian Ministries & Evangelism), Principles of War: A Handbook on Strategic Evangelism, 1991, p. 7. “In the study of warfare, great men have concluded that there are some overriding principles that, if followed, will always tend toward success in battle, and if neglected or ignored, will tend toward defeat or even destruction.” This above statement is also true in spiritual warfare. We have the tools to fight this battle, however, we lack the training. What is needed is a plan of action that can implemented using pastors, educators, and parents, and youth leaders

Ineffective Solutions
Bigger churches More music that caters to the youth More entertainment More youth mission trips More “relationship” building Bigger youth groups More Sunday school classes Become more seeker friendly

The Plan of Action 2 Timothy 2:2
And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. We don’t need hundreds of millions of dollars - $200,000/year

Train the next generation to stand firm.
The Plan of Action Increase the number of teachers who can teach creation and apologetics. Train the next generation to stand firm. We need to infiltrate our own Christian universities and churches with teachers We need to make sure our students Know the Gospel Can share the Gospel Can defend the Gospel Paule was appointed to defend the Gospel Know the Gospel Share the Gospel Defend the Gospel

The Plan of Action What do youth need to know to become better evangelist in a world that is hostile to the Bible (The BIG Five)? Become doers of the Word (Application Training) We need to infiltrate our own Christian universities and churches with teachers We need to make sure our students Know the Gospel Can share the Gospel Can defend the Gospel Paule was appointed to defend the Gospel

The BIG FIVE What Youth Need to Know
How to think biblically (worldview). How to think critically and analyze statements and challenges. How to refute evolutionism. How to respond to the claims of moral relativists. How to recognize and respond to biblical compromise. If I can take an 8th grader to take a computer apart and put it back together again, then they can learn the riches of God’s Word.

Know, Share, and Defend the Gospel
Application Training The ultimate test of teaching is not what you do as the teacher or how well you do it, but what can the student do or perform at the end of the training. Know, Share, and Defend the Gospel If I can take an 8th grader to take a computer apart and put it back together again, then they can learn the riches of God’s Word. Can they apply what they have learned – know, share, defend

Biblical Worldview Training
Colossians 2:3 God exists and His Word is true Matthew 22:37 Romans 12:2 John 17:17 Scripture is the authority in all matters The Gospel (Know, Share, Defend) “Non-biblical worldview ideas don’t just sit in a book somewhere waiting for people to examine them. They bombard us constantly from television, film, music, newspapers, magazine, books and academia.” Del Tackett, “Why Is a Christian Worldview Important?” If we don’t really believe and live the truth of God, then our witness will be confusing and misleading. Most of us go through life not recognizing that our personal worldviews have been deeply affected by the world. (Col 2:3, 8 – all wisdom and knowledge…) Col 2:3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Col 2:8 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.

Apologetics 1 Peter 3:15 (Ready answer always)
Jude 3 (Contend for the faith) 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (Strongholds) Colossians 4:6 (Know how to answer) Col 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Practical Apologetics Training
Who did Cain marry? Was there really a worldwide flood? How could Adam name all the animals in one day? How do you fit the dinosaurs into the Bible? How could all the creatures fit on the Ark? How could the first three days of creation be literal days if the sun was not created until day 4?

Practical Apologetics
2 Peter 3:8 (a day like a thousand years) Day-age theory Gap theory Genesis 2:4 (“in the day”) Genesis is written in Hebrew poetic format The creation account is not real history Plant death before sin Modern science proves the earth is old

Critical Thinking Skills Training
Typical method: Focus on the evidence Critical thinking: Focus on analyzing the statement (words used) Make the non-believer accountable for his/her statements. Evolution is a fact Creation is true A short lesson Instead of focusing on the comparison of evidence between creation and evolution, we can focus on analyzing the evolutionist’ argument and making them accountable for their statements.

Three Critical Thinking Questions
How do you know it is true? Has it ever been observed? Are you making any assumptions? Recognize Assumptions THINK It’s not illegal yet

A Power Question Show me any observational evidence for evolution that does not require me to use faith.

Science Foundations Training
Where did the Universe come from? How did life originate? Where did dinosaurs come from? What are the assumptions in the dating methods? What is the foundation for the fossil record (Cambrian explosion)?

Presuppositional Apologetics Training
Who made God? Show me any evidence for the existence of God? How can you call God good when He allows evil to continue? Why are Christians so intolerant? That’s true for you, but not for me.

The Greatest Briefing Ephesians 6:11-18 The Armor of God
Eph 6: the greatest briefing Vs 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Truth Breastplate of righteousness Gospel Shield of faith Helmet of Salvation Sword of the Spirit

Encircle yourself with truth Live a righteous, godly life
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Encircle yourself with truth Live a righteous, godly life Know and share the Gospel Protect yourself with the shield of faith Protect your mind from doubt Go on the offensive with God’s Word 4 and 6 are apologetics Eph 6:10-18 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[a] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

A Challenge Know the Gospel Share the Gospel Defend the Gospel
How many in your church? Know the Gospel Share the Gospel Defend the Gospel Eph 6: the greatest briefing Vs 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Truth Breastplate of righteousness Gospel Shield of faith Helmet of Salvation Sword of the Spirit

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