COM Summer Training Project Talks

Dan Grano addresses the need for evangelism in this talk. He begins it by talking about a move in which the characters cry “Give us Free”. He uses this phrase as a spring board to jump into how people are enslaved to the world and to sin, and only through Christ can they be freed.

In this talk Steve Discher discusses how the story of the bible progresses through history as well as the unity of the story of the gospel. He tracks the story through the bible and explains the necessity of understanding the story of the gospel and than applying it to our lives.

In this talk Mike Polley discusses what it means to live as a Christian. He talks about this in terms of walking and fighting and what it means to walk freely while fighting at the same time. Finally Polley ends the talk by talking about the motivations to walk with Christ and how we should think and feel about our walk with God

In the first life training talk of the summer, Reid Jilek unpacks what culture and Christianity has to say about free time and busyness in our daily lives. After talking about these two views on free time Reid moves on to discuss how to best use the time that we do have to rest in the truth of the gospel.

In this talk Steve Discher talks about the freedom that we have to be under authority, as well as the importance of the bible in daily life as a Christian. Steve walks through several topics about bible study and learning how to read and study the bible as a part of a Christians daily walk.

In this talk Eric Lonergan talks about vulnerability in being a room/project leader and the mindset it takes to help lead and disciple the people on project. He unpacks this using the verses of that week and talking about how the gospel impacts leadership.

In this talk Mike Polley discusses the our hearts as sinful people. He walks through 4 points each to do with our hearts and desires. First he talks about our sinful hearts, than how we all have dead hearts, followed by the self destructive nature of our hearts, and finally the freedom we have in Christ from our own hearts.

This life training was given by Reid Jilek concerning the role that the church plays in the life of a Christian. He starts off the talk by stating “the church will be your primary source of growth for the rest of your life”. For the rest of the talk Reid explains his thoughts on the church and being apart of the church as well as the biblical foundations for being tied into and involved with the church.

Steve Discher beings this talk by addressing the trustworthiness of the bible. He unpacks this using evidence from archaeology, scripture, and personal thoughts and emphasized the point that scripture is truth and what the bible says is really divinely inspired and can be trusted and studied as the word of God.

In this talk, Matt addresses some of the fears and thoughts of doing beach evangelism. He starts by talking about some of the fears that students previously have had about going out onto the beach and their thoughts moving forward from that. After which Matt discusses some of the “Whispers and Shouts” that should ring clear in our minds and hearts when thinking about evangelism.