Evangelism Resources

Here are the links I alluded to in Sunday School Class today. If I were really a good blogger (see below for QED), I would be able to do this in a much less junky way, for now you'll just have to click on what may look like gibberish to many of you (well, me too) following each description.

Two Ways to Live
(the presentation, pamphlets, and how to order additional resources). http://www.matthiasmedia.com.au/2wtl/

Based on a True Story

James Chuong's site (which is interesting reading no matter what you go there to find). Here you can find interesting and challenging perspectives from a GenX who has an MIT degree in Management Science, an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell, and a DMin from Fuller in Postmodern Leadership Development. After serving as a pastor at Cambridge Community Fellowship Church, he eventually became IVP director for the Greater San Diego area and developed this gospel presentation. http://www.jameschoung.net

Both The Big Story and the sequel The Big Story Two can be found on the right side of this page, but here are the addresses for the YouTube videos: The Big Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCVcSiUUMhY&feature=related

The Big Story 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4V60n6KiB8&eurl=http://www.jameschoung.net/page/2/

The Best Story

Jim Wallace is both a Detective (currently working cold case homicides) and a Church Planter. His background was originally in design (BFA from California State University at Long Beach and a Master's in Architecture from UCLA), but he has been a police officer and detective for the past 20 years. He is also seminary trained (Master's Degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary).

Some great resources, including training materials and a Powerpoint presentation are found here:
http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/index/mn37345/The_Promise_of_Christianity

You may watch the presentation here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do9tg3zEJJs&feature=related

Another Youtube Resource

Interesting Demonstration of the materialists' bias in explaining the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vi-FsaEb3Q&feature=related

Critical Books for Evangelism

Both of these books were written with believers and nonbelievers in mind, and Tim Keller is writing for the kinds of nonbelievers we tend to find in our part of Massachusetts: bright, intellectual, self-sufficient, and influenced by postmodernity in all its iterations.

The Reason for God

A book on the most frequently voiced doubts of skeptics written for believers and skeptics, filled with allusions to literature and culture and even anthropology.

The book is in two parts, the first responding to doubts and the second, reasons why Christianity is more reliable than other worldviews. You'll hear echos of C.S. Lewis, Jonathan Edwards, and Gordon-Conwell professor Richard Lovelace in these pages, as well as words that speak clearly and winsomely to a Manhattan-like culture

The Leap of Doubt

1. There can't be just one true religion
2. A good God could not allow suffering
3. Christianity is a straitjacket
4. The church is responsible for so much injustice
5. A loving God would not send people to hell
6. Science has disproved Christianity
7. You can't take the Bible literally

The Reasons for Faith

1. The clues of God
2. The knowledge of God
3. The problem of sin
4. Religion and the gospel

5. The (true) story of the cross
6. The reality of the resurrection
7. The Dance of God

The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

Here is where is best answered in an approachable form for believers and non-believers alike the startling news of what the gospel really is. I attended a DMin class taught by Dr. Keller and co-taught with Dr. Clowney, one of his mentors who so influenced him in his thinking through the meaning of this parable. The book is challenging to conservative (elder brother) and liberal (younger brother) alike or to anyone who has lived a mixture of either. This is the best one-book-not-too-long-either summary of the gospel and ought to flavor every other presentation.