OYC 2012: Ready Always

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Oregon Youth for Christ

OYC 2012 Seminars

Justin Kim

In a Godless World: The Worldview of Atheism

To Be Convenient: Other Worldviews

As a Christian: The Worldview of Theism

Standing Up: Winsome and Rational Apologetics

Gracious Father, this morning we thank you for the beautiful sunshine that you have given to us.

We take it as a token of the grace of your warmth and your kindness that you send from heaven to earth.

Father, we ask also that you send forth your Holy Spirit into this humble abode.

Be with the ears and the minds of my fellow listeners.

Be with the lips and my heart as I speak.

Father, we seek not to just be eloquent and to intellectualize, but Father, we seek to understand what you would have us to understand.

Deeper truths, the character of Jesus, and more elements of this great controversy that we live in.

The seminar for today, We have a four-part seminar.

You're not locked to 1 track or not, so you don't feel you have no free will in the matter.

The 1 is called In a Godless World, the worldview of atheism.

The second 1 will be on deism and pantheism.

The fourth 1 will be on theism, and the last 1 will be on some practical elements.

How many of you have heard of some of these isms before?

There's a chart in front of you that I printed that the leaders happened to print out.

And I'm asking you, please don't get discouraged when you look at this.

This looks like, ooh, do I have to memorize this?

If you have to memorize this, you have nothing better to do in your life than to memorize this.

But it helps at least to see systematically what each of these world views are.

There's deism, atheism, pantheism, panentheism, limited godism, polytheism, and theism.

Even those who have no world view have a what?

The reality is no 1 has a pure worldview, we're all mixtures of 1 or 2.

And what happens is this, When you look at atheists or agnostics, or, and I work in campus ministries, we meet a lot of atheists on campus.

Atheists are not stupid, or if you're agnostic, it's because they're dumb, or they're just, they're horrible sinners, and they resulted in this.

It's usually they have a particular thought that gets in your mind.

And this 1 thought causes this to be a logical conclusion.

And it's a logical progression from 1 to another.

This bouncing back and forth is called a worldview.

And it all starts from the first initial idea that you had.

So we're going to look at each of these things.

And the reality is, a lot of us, A theism is the belief in a personal God.

That's probably where we all want to be in.

But a lot of times we may think we're theists because we're good some theabonists, but sometimes we're living a political life like a pantheist, a spiritual life like an atheist.

You're like, well, I like this and this and this.

And you have this plate of just Italian food, Chinese food, and Thai food.

Because you like it, it's just your special confirmation of these things.

And we're gonna see that a lot of this is illogical and it's irrational to have this mish-posh.

Christians need to understand that each of these worldviews are consistent and continually need to be developed.

Adventists have much to learn, gain confidence for ourselves, and have much to contribute.

And what happens is this, and I hope that when you understand some of this, not the exact elements, but the ch-ch-ch-ch-ch component, I don't know what else to call it except the ch-ch-ch-ch.

You'll be a little bit more confident on what you believe.

And when you meet someone, like, hey, you're an atheist, you won't freak out.

How many of you, without raising your hands, when you meet someone, you're like, you don't believe in, and you kind of get that weird feeling or hey, I'm a Zen Buddhist, you're like, whoa.

Okay, these are not evangelistic methods or techniques, but this is just a way to understand and to be more comfortable in your own skin and a comfortable talk with someone who is in their skin as well.

And what happens is this, as a Christian, sometimes if someone says they're an atheist, you can ask questions.

Jesus asked questions, not because he wanted to know.

Jesus asked questions to help the other person know what they know.

And they're like, you know, I don't know.

And you start a conversation at that point.

So these are more techniques on how to start a conversation.

And this is where our personal experiences and testimonies will play a factor later on.

We had a survey on the University of Michigan campus.

And I come from the ministry called Campus for Adventist Ministry to Public University Students at Michigan Conference.

We have about 3 to 12 missionaries who come to our program every year.

And students take 1 year off and they do campus ministries and we teach them.

And 1 day we asked them to go out on campus and they did a survey.

And their survey was what do you think of Christians?

And they say the Christians are people who love Jesus are what?

They receive info from the media, they're brainwashed, they doubt the Bible.

Everything is relative, just keep going down all the way through, that they come first, if Jesus comes up, later on in the conversation, then I'll ask about it and find out about it then, but until now I won't do that.

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