There are lots of reasons that motivate us to share the gospel with others. Check out this episode if you need some extra help in getting out there to tell others about Jesus.

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1:05 - EVANGELISM: proclaiming the “good news” (“gospel”) of Jesus Christ to a non-Christian. THE GOSPEL: 1. SIN, 2. GOD, 3. JESUS’ DEATH, 4. JESUS’ RESURRECTION, 5. SALVATION, 6. FAITH

2:25 - WHY SHOULD WE EVANGELIZE? LOVE GOD. LOVE NON-CHRISTIANS.

3:25 - “COMPELLED” (ACTS 4:20). “STORE UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN” (MATT. 6:20). 

6:59 - SEE NON-CHRISTIANS SAVED. THANKFUL FOR GOD’S GRACE

9:32 - “POWER OF GOD” (ROM. 1:16). URGENCY. 

10:43 - STRENGTHENS OUR BELIEFS. 1 PETER 3:15 - “always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.” JOY IN DISCIPLING NEW CHRISTIANS. 

12:27 - SO WHAT? 

13:37 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? DO IT!

14:49  - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

*Further Reading: C.S. Lewis “The Weight of Glory” 

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How do you help a friend actually put their faith in Jesus? Check out this episode to get practical help for how to guide non-Christians to take their first step in their Christian spiritual life!

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1:17 - FAITH IDENTITY. EVANGELISM: proclaiming the “good news” (“gospel”) of Jesus Christ to a non-Christian

3:10 - THE GOSPEL: 1. SIN, 2. GOD, 3. JESUS’ DEATH, 4. JESUS’ RESURRECTION, 5. SALVATION, 6. FAITH

4:15 - HOW TO TRANSITION from presenting the gospel to accepting Jesus? 1. GENERAL UNDERSTANDING (“Does this make sense?”) 2. SPECIFIC ACTION (“Do you feel like you’re ready to become a Christian?” “I can lead us in prayer right now, and you can put your faith in Jesus.”). IF THEY SAY THEY’RE NOT READY YET--THAT’S OKAY! Remind them this is a really important decision (urgency).

7:13 - WHAT IF THEY  WANT TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN? Lead them in a PRAYER FOR SALVATION. 1. Admit they are a sinner and want to repent. 2. Thank Jesus for dying for them and asking him to be Savior. 3. They are “born again” and have eternal life.

8:36 - PRAYER FOR SALVATION. Go back through the points of the gospel you shared. They can pray and repeat after you:  "Dear God, I confess I am a sinner. Thank you that Jesus died on the cross to forgive my sin and rose again. I want to trust and follow Jesus as my Savior. Thank you that if I trust in Jesus alone, you give me the gift of a right relationship with you forever.  Amen.” You can remind them that salvation is theirs (Romans 10:9)! Help them take their first steps in their new Christian faith.

10:35 - SO WHAT?

12:35 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? PRACTICE

14:04 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

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When you hear the word “evangelist,” you might cringe. But what if this is something that Jesus calls you to become? How can you do this in ways that others actually appreciate? Check out why honesty, urgency, and love are game-changers in how we share the gospel with others.

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1:37 - EVANGELISTS tell others about the good news (gospel) of Jesus. (Some have gift of evangelism: Eph. 4:11. But all Christians are to share the gospel: Matt. 28:19-20.) THE GOSPEL: 1. SIN, 2. GOD, 3. JESUS’ DEATH, 4. JESUS’ RESURRECTION, 5. SALVATION, 6. FAITH

3:53 - LOVE (Matt. 22:37-39: the Greatest Commandment)

5:21 - HUMBLY (1 Pet. 3:15)

6:12 - RESPECTFUL

7:30 - URGENCY (2 Cor. 5:20). FEARLESSLY (Eph. 6:19-20)--pray for courage and for others.

9:22 - CLEARLY: define biblical terms 

10:15 - HONEST: in what the gospel is and about your own heart. Not the “prosperity gospel”: because becoming a Christian may make your life harder!

11:32 - COURTEOUSLY: ask permission

13:17 - FAITH IDENTITY

16:25 - LIFESTYLE EVANGELISM: OBEDIENCE (Jn. 14:15), SENSITIVITY TO THE HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 1:8), INTEGRITY (Matt. 5:16), COURAGEOUSLY (1 Cor. 11:23-29). Still have to verbally share the gospel.

19:05 - SO WHAT?

20:51 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? PICK AN AREA TO EMPHASIZE (LOVE, HONESTY, URGENCY, etc.)

22:19 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

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Jesus calls Christians to share the gospel with others. But what exactly is the gospel? And what is evangelism?

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1:18 - EVANGELISM: proclaiming the “good news” (“gospel”) of Jesus Christ to a non-Christian (Matt. 28:18-20). THE GOSPEL: 1. SIN, 2. GOD, 3. JESUS’ DEATH, 4. JESUS’ RESURRECTION, 5. SALVATION, 6. FAITH

3:11 - 1. SIN, ROMANS 3:23 - “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Rom. 6:23. Death = spiritual, physical, eternal separation from God. Rom. 3:20.

5:37 - 2. GOD - hates sin, loves us. Exhibited his love in Jesus (John 3:16).

6:38 - 3. JESUS’ DEATH - sacrifices himself in our place (Rom. 5:8). 2 Cor. 5:21 - “the great exchange.”

8:10 - 4. JESUS’ RESURRECTION - proved he is God and the Father accepted his sacrifice (Rom. 1, 4). 5. SALVATION - “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). GRACE: freely offered something that we didn’t earn or deserve (a gift) (Eph. 2:8-9).

10:18 - 6. FAITH - REPENT: a U-turn,  180-degree change of direction. FAITH: trust in Jesus alone (Rom. 10:13).

11:13 - SO WHAT?

12:49 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? MEMORIZE THE GOSPEL. Romans 6:23 - “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

14:27 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

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Even before all of the Bible was written, Christians were repeating what they knew about Jesus: that he rose from the dead! Find out in this episode where you can see these early Christian creeds and why they should give you confidence about Jesus!

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0:55 - BOOK: The Historical Jesus by Gary Habermas

1:11 - WHY IS THE RESURRECTION SO IMPORTANT? THE CENTRAL EVENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. (1) PROVES THAT JESUS IS GOD. (2) PROVES THE FATHER ACCEPTED JESUS’ SACRIFICIAL DEATH ON THE CROSS. (3) PROVES THAT ALL CHRISTIANS WILL BE RESURRECTED. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:14

2:09 - ANY PROOF? 1) 12 HISTORICAL FACTS NEARLY ALL SCHOLARSHIP AGREES ON, 2) EARLY CHRISTIAN CREEDS. CREEDS ARE STATEMENTS OF SHARED BELIEF. DATE 3-20 YRS AFTER THE RESURRECTION. THEY PROVE THE RESURRECTION OCCURRED.

3:43 - HOW DO THE CREEDS WORK? SHARED VERBALLY, LATER WRITTEN DOWN. EARLIEST CHRISTIAN CREED IS 1 COR. 15:3-8 (3-8 YRS AFTER THE RESURRECTION).

6:26 - ESSENTIAL FACTS OF CHR’Y WERE COMMON KNOWLEDGE. CREEDS PROVE LEGENDS COULD NOT DEVELOP!

7:27 - MORE THAN 20 CREEDS  IN 9 NT BOOKS (LUKE 24:34; ROMANS 10:9; 1 PETER 3:18; 1 JOHN 4:2). Binmin blog: “Early Christian Creeds: 8 Points Proving the Resurrection”

9:16 - SO WHAT? CREEDS PROVE JESUS’ RESURRECTION. ONLY ENCOUNTERING A RESURRECTED JESUS EXPLAINS THE DISCIPLES’ TRANSFORMATION.

10:38 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? READ THE CREED: 1 CORINTHIANS 15

11:23 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

FURTHER RESOURCES: Habermas, Gary R. The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ. Joplin, MO: College Press Publishing Company, 1996.

Dr. Bob Martin III, Early Christian Creeds: 8 Points Proving the Resurrection, Binmin.org

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Real people witnessed the resurrection of Jesus then wrote about it. Do the New Testament authors contradict each other or were they prejudiced to make up a resurrection? Find out in this episode!

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0:56 - CHRISTIANITY DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON JESUS. THE NT IS THE PRIMARY SOURCE ABOUT JESUS.

1:30 - CAN YOU TRUST THE MANUSCRIPTS (Previous eps). TODAY: CAN YOU TRUST THE AUTHORS? HOW TO DETERMINE IF AUTHORS TRUSTWORTHY? 1. CONTRADICT? 2. NUMBER? 3. TRUTHFUL? 4. PREJUDICIAL?

3:30 - 1. CONTRADICT? No! If they were identical, we’d expect collusion. All agree: JESUS CLAIMED TO BE SON OF GOD & DID MIRACLES. CRUCIFIED 30 A.D. ROSE FROM DEAD. DISCIPLES CONVINCED & MORE CONVERTED.

6: 21 - 2. NUMBER? 9 AUTHORS. ALL EYEWITNESSES OR SUPERVISED BY EYEWITNESSES. 6 INDEPENDENT SOURCES WRITTEN 20-40 YEARS AFTER THE RESURRECTION (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter). 1 COR. 15:6 MORE THAN 500 SAW THE RESURRECTED CHRIST

8:02 - 3. TRUTHFUL? ALL OF THE APOSTLES EXCEPT FOR JOHN WERE MARTYRED

9:53 - 4. PREJUDICIAL? APOSTLES WERE NOT PREJUDICED TO BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION. LUKE 24:11 (women run back, apostles don’t believe them). “DOUBTING THOMAS.” HAD NOTHING TO GAIN PERSONALLY.

12:18 - SO WHAT? INTEGRITY OF WRITERS IS BEYOND REPROACH. HONESTY & MANUSCRIPT ACCURACY CONFIRMS HISTORICAL RELIABILITY.

13:22 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? PRAY FOR BOLDNESS

15:37 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

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There are standard tests historical documents go through to find out if their historically reliable. And the Bible pulls through: both looking inside and outside to other books that talk about the events of the New Testament!  

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1:50 - 3 TESTS: 1. BIBLIOGRAPHIC TEST (*Check out Ep. 52), 2. INTERNAL TEST, 3. EXTERNAL TEST

2:35 - 2. INTERNAL TEST: what’s written in the NT. ERRORS IN THE BIBLE? NO ERRORS IN THE BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS: overwhelming majority: of variant readings are grammatical, word order, synonyms. Bruce Metzger: LESS THAN 40 OF 20,000 LINES - NOT SURE WHICH IS ORIGINAL ( in Geisler & Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible (1986), 475.).

5:06 - WE AREN’T MISSING ANYTHING; WE HAVE TOO MUCH.

6:19 - VARIANT READINGS HELP CONFIRM THE ORIGINAL TEXT. 5,000 MANUSCRIPTS PROVE ORIGINAL MESSAGE

8:03 - CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BIBLE? (2. INTERNAL TEST cont’d). SO-CALLED “CONTRADICTIONS” ARE INTERPRETATION MISTAKES. Still conveys message of Bible.

10:45 - REVIEW!: MANUSCRIPTS (1. BIBLIOGRAPHIC, 2. INTERNAL, 3. EXTERNAL), AUTHORS

11:24 - 3. EXTERNAL TEST:  HISTORICAL WRITINGS? ARCHEOLOGY? *Gary Habermas, The Historical Jesus: 17 NON-CHRISTIAN WRITINGS that confirm NT.

13:08 - 140+ ARCHEOLOGICALLY CONFIRMED FINDINGS

14:00 - SO WHAT?

15:47 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? ASK SOMEONE WHO DOUBTS

17:00 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

FURTHER RESOURCES: (1) Geisler, Norman. "New Testament, Historicity of."   In Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics (1999). (Updated as The Big Book of Christian Apologetics: An A to Z Guide (2012)). (2) Geisler, Norman. (2002). Systematic Theology, Volume One: Introduction, Bible. Bethany House. (digital, used). (3) Habermas, Gary. The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ. College Press Publishing (1996).

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How do we know that the Bible in our hands is actually what was originally written? Was it changed from the original? Why do scholars say the Bible is the most reliable ancient book? Find out in this episode!

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1:23 - CHRISTIANITY DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON JESUS. THE NT IS THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF JESUS.

2:03 - THE MANUSCRIPTS WERE ACCURATELY COPIED. WE CAN TRUST THE AUTHORS

3:00 - 3 TESTS: 1. BIBLIOGRAPHIC TEST: If we have accurate copies of the original 1st century books of the NT.  “Was the Bible handed down accurately?” NEXT EPISODE: 2. INTERNAL TEST: looks “inside” the book to see if errors/contradictions. 3. EXTERNAL TEST: looks outside the documents to see if any other contemporary writings/archaeology supports.

4:37 - BIBLIOGRAPHIC TEST:  1 - HOW MANY manuscript copies exist; 2 - HOW EARLY (earliest surviving manuscripts); 3 - HOW ACCURATELY have they been transmitted

5:58 -  1 - HOW MANY MANUSCRIPT COPIES EXIST? 5,800 HAND-COPIED GREEK MANUSCRIPTS of the NT! By far the most copies of any ancient work. 9K early translations. Could reconstruct most NT from quotes by Early Church Fathers.

9:34 - 2 - HOW EARLY ARE THESE MANUSCRIPT COPIES? 88 UNDISPUTED MANUSCRIPTS from 25-200 years after written. John Rylands fragment of John (found in Egypt 25 years after written); Bodmer Papyri (oldest surviving complete manuscript copies of NT books - little over 100 yrs after NT complete); Chester-Beatty Papyri (most of NT, 50 years after NT completed). No other ancient book has such a small time gap between composition & earliest manuscript copies!

11:46 - 3 - HOW ACCURATELY HAS IT BEEN TRANSMITTED? Bruce Metzger: 99.5% OF THE NT HAS BEEN ACCURATELY TRANSMITTED. THE 0.5% IS NOT MISSING TEXT BUT TOO MUCH TEXT.

13:08 - SO WHAT? OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE TO TRUST THE NT. THE BEST-ATTESTED ANCIENT TEXT. HAS BEEN ACCURATELY TRANSMITTED.

14:50 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? TELL SOMEONE ABOUT THIS.

16:17 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

RESOURCES: Geisler, Norman L. "New Testament, Historicity of." In Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics (1999). (Updated as The Big Book of Christian Apologetics: An A to Z Guide (2012)). Bock, Darrel L. "Is the New Testament Trustworthy?" In The Apologetics Study Bible.

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Is the Bible just a bunch of myths? Has it been corrupted with false tales of miracles? This episode unveils why it isn’t mythical and why it makes sense to believe that it’s events really happened, especially Jesus’ resurrection.

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1:05 - WHY DO PEOPLE THINK THE BIBLE IS MYTH? 1. THE PROBLEM OF MIRACLES, 2. THE PROBLEM OF RECORDING HISTORY

3:12 - 1. THE PROBLEM OF MIRACLES: 2 SCIENTIFIC METHODS: 1. EMPIRICAL (examines natural laws; repeatable, observable events in the present), 2. FORENSIC (like crime scene investigation; singular, non-repeatable, historical events; also used in archeology, origin of universe, and miracles; also called “Origin Science”)

6:59 - 2. THE PROBLEM OF RECORDING HISTORY: Overwhelming evidence that the NT is historically accurate.

10:44 - NEW TESTAMENT LEGENDS ARE IMPOSSIBLE: 2 things needed for myths/legends to develop: 1. TIME (need 2 generations after event; but written 20-40 years after events), 2. SECLUSION (not having enough witnesses; but 1 Cor 15:6 - 500+ witnesses to Jesus’ resurrection).

12:21 - AUTHORS DID NOT BORROW MYTHS FROM OTHER CULTURES. GOSPELS SHOW NO SIGNS OF MYTHS OR LEGENDS. C.S. Lewis - “All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian; that’s my job. And I’m prepared to say on that basis, if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I’ve read a great many novels, and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff” (Christian Reflections, 209).

14:34 - SO WHAT? The NT, especially the Gospels, shows no signs of myths or legends. References in the Gospels and Acts are historically confirmed. Manuscripts are too early, numerous & accurate to be myths.

15:40 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? TRUST THE NEW TESTAMENT.

16:49 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

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Is mistletoe really a pagan symbol? Where did our Christmas celebration come from? This episode shares the story of Christmas traditions and whether Christians should celebrate it!

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1:29 - WHY ALL THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT CHRISTMAS AND PAGANISM?

2:50 - WHY DO WE CELEBRATE DECEMBER 25 AS JESUS' BIRTHDAY? We don’t know the exact date of Jesus’ birth.

4:47 - Are there Pagan Rituals Associated with Christmas? Yes and no. Some traditions have their origins in ancient pagan practices, but the meaning of any word, symbol, or custom is determined by current usage, not its origins.

6:56 - SO WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT SOME OF THE CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS THAT SUPPOSEDLY HAVE PAGAN ORIGINS? For us modern Christians, they don’t hold relevance anymore (ringing bells, giving gifts, mistletoe, etc.)

10:20 - IS THERE ANY BIBLICAL EVIDENCE OF REDEEMING PAGAN SYMBOLS OR BELIEFS? Yes: Paul appropriated a pagan altar for gospel evangelism in Acts 17:22–24.

11:14 - SHOULD A CHRISTIAN CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS? Whether you choose to celebrate Jesus’ birth falls under the category of “Christian liberty” (Rom. 14:5-6; 1 Cor. 10:31).

12:29 - SO WHAT? WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? CHRISTMAS GLORIFIES GOD. PAGAN ORIGINS OF CHRISTMAS ARE IRRELEVANT

13:29 - WHAT’S YOUR NEXT STEP? GIVE ATTENTION TO JESUS.

14:31 - THANK YOU & WRAP UP

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