May 9th 2006 Meeting Outline

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• May 9th 2006 Meeting Outline
• 7pm Start
• Welcome introduction housekeeping (RW) (10
  minutes)
• Da Vinci Code book review (JH) (10 minutes)
• Main topic for meeting Is the Christian Faith
  Defensible? Two Suggested Methods to win the war
  of ideas. (GM) (45 minutes QA)
• 9pm Finish including tea/coffee/biscuits
• Questions and comments are most welcome after
  each talk. (Email follow-up questions ok?)

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• Housekeeping
• MCAS Membership form
• Finances (need someone to collect and look after
  ). Projector is costing money. Suggestions for
  covering costs? Gold coins?
• Advertising require feedback on flyer
• Please invite your friends if you think they
  would be interested
• Need speakers and topics of interest
• Patrick Sookhdeo (Barnabas Fund) review
• Feedback from last meetings - varied interests
  from apologetics/earth-science/Bible/education/eve
  rything
• Get your email in to my database if you want
  updates (I have 2 lists)
• Lectures book reviews these slides will all
  be added to the website after the meeting
• Website needs a complete review volunteers?
• Website forum
• Other news relating to apologetics will be added
  to website
• Get involved!

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• Coming up
• Euthanasia education geology lectures
• E-Sword demo ( other software Bible, 3D Bible
  lands, animated Bible)
• Great Bible Teaching.com MP3 player trial
• Introducing logical fallacies
• Introducing some big words you may find useful
• Moral relativism video (intro 10 mins.) and lots
  of other video material
• Review some apologetic ministries on the
  internet Ravi, Sproul loads of others
  (volunteers please)
• Big bang article (from Physics Today, July 2005)

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• Wish list
• Da Vinci Code lecture
• Worldviews lecture
• Logic lecture
• Christianity in Middle East lecture
• Review and discussion of Russell Humphreys book
  Starlight and Time with brief explanation of
  relativity

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• Questions I have heard over the last few weeks
  (answers from the floor please!)
• Whats wrong with Jesus being married? (related
  to the Da Vinci Code?)
• Do Christians only follow God out of fear of
  hell? Is hell what motivates Christians? Does
  hell scare us into being good?
• Bible in schools question Why does God have a
  son rather than a daughter?
• What should church worship be like? What if
  week-after-week I get nothing out of it?

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• A quick poll
• How many people are interacting with unbelievers
  at home, work, kindergarten, preschool, school,
  university?
• How many people are unsure or nervous about how
  to approach spiritual conversations with
  unbelievers?
• How many people are confident when talking with
  unbelievers about
• Philosophy/atheism/theism
• Ethics/morals
• Worldviews
• Christ?
• How many people are unsure about where to start
  when spiritual/moral/ethical issues come up?