GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Biblical Faith - Secular World

Jordan Reichert

The Word: Is it Reliable? Is He Alive?

The Quiet and the Pain: Where is God?

The Remnant: Elitism or Evangelism?

The Investigative Judgment: What...?

You know that I have nothing good except for what you're gonna do and so speak Lord may all of this of GYC not just turn into a preaching contest, but may we just be wanting to see you and to lift you up.

I pray that for the person in this room who can't stand you, but for some reason they're here, they would see how much you love them.

I pray for the person who has doubts that you would help remove some of those in our time here today.

Thank you for your word, the book form and the man form.

1st Peter 3 15 tells us, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

If you're not going to do it in gentleness and respect, maybe silence is a little more golden at that moment, right?

The goal of talking about things like Christian apologetics, and I'm even hesitant of that word, is not to corner people, is not to fight people.

Nobody's interested in Jesus if you walk around throwing punches in his name.

More of what we're doing here today, what I hope you walk away with is here is maybe hopefully some helpful information for you to take, ready for it, into your relationships, into the people that you talk with, to Steph who works at the post office, and she gives you your packages.

To your grocer, to the person you interact with.

This is stuff for you to take into your relationships.

If there's no relationship there, then don't hit people over the head with all the reasons they can trust the Bible, unless they come right up and ask you.

I'm gonna jump forward to this part right here.

This is a favorite quote of mine by Ellen White.

She says, the strongest argument in favor of the gospel is what?

Look at the opening statement, only through a living faith in Christ as a personal Savior is it possible to make our influence felt in a skeptical world.

If you have a connection to Jesus, that's gonna shine.

If you don't, doesn't matter how much you know.

No trivia test to get into heaven, right?

Nobody has ever, I don't think anybody's ever been forced into the kingdom of God by being intellectually convinced.

However, what we're gonna do today is try to give you some tools that you can use in conversations with people or maybe even just for yourself because you're like, hey, you know, I want to believe I'm a Christian person but sometimes I struggle with that myself And sometimes we just want to be like reminded, you know what I mean?

We want to be reminded of where we stand.

And so hopefully this is helpful for you, but then it can be beyond for somebody else.

Imagine right now that on the way here on a plane, somebody said to you, hey, I see that you have a Bible there.

Don't you know that's been changed through the centuries and you can't really trust it and it's not really a reliable thing?

People think that's God's word, that's crazy.

We got a lot we're going through in this 1.

I hope you're ready for some learning or some review.

Any people out here who love, like you love, trying to drink from the fire hose of information?

That's what we're going to be doing a little bit of this.

Now, really quickly, just for the sake of fun, let's take 1 person's response.

Here's the microphone So yeah, if you didn't hear he said for the New Testament There's more ancient manuscript evidence for the New Testament than many other works of history.

We're gonna get into that hardcore fun stuff.

Who has read some stuff about this before?

Yeah, in the house they're all representing.

This is kind of 2 things we're gonna be looking at.

The 2 questions we're looking at, or statements that I'm gonna be talking about, is the Bible is the reliable, authoritative word of God.

All right, 1 person believes that, sounds good, right?

There was a man named Jesus of Nazareth who really lived in history and he rose from the dead.

First part, so what you're gonna face a lot of times is people have a lot of objections to it.

Probably the most popular 1 nowadays is this idea of when we talk about the truth whether it's like hey this is the truth and other things are not you know the Quran is not the you know very you know other other texts are not this is people say well that's really exclusive That's really narrow or to say that you know there's only 1 God and it's the God of the Bible or to say You know Jesus is the way the truth in life and the only way to come to the father is through him A lot of people say that's that's really narrow.

That's really exclusive There's a problem with that The fact is that every religion and every faith system, and even not a faith system, all has some amount of exclusivity.

Let's pretend that I'm a person, a secular person, walking down the streets of Orlando, and I don't really have any particular religious convictions or faith.

That's the lens through which I see the world and I might think possibly that I'm Oh, I'm a really I'm a tolerant enlightened person, but watch this I can only be respectful and say oh You should respect other people's faiths.

I can only be respectful of their faiths if I pretend like they're all wrong and I'm right.

So really every, there's no such thing as not having some level of exclusivity, but the reality is Jesus calls us to that.

There was a man attested to in history who said he was 1 with the Father, who said he was alive before he was born, who said he was gonna die and rise again, and according to a whole lot of data he did it.

He also said things like, I am the way and the truth in life, nobody comes to the Father except through me.

So you know, common objections people have, that's 1.

Another 1 people say, oh well Jesus never existed.

By the way, that 1 is academically like untenable nowadays.

I'm not gonna go heavy into it right now, but just Google historical sources for Jesus and you'll have a really fun time.

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Biblical Faith - Secular World

The Word: Is it Reliable? Is He Alive?

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