Making Your Case for Christ Training Course: An Action Plan for Sharing What you Believe and Why

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In his bestselling book The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel retraced his spiritual journey from atheism to faith by showing how the evidence he obtained from experts in the field of history, archaeology, and ancient manuscripts led him to the verdict that Jesus truly was the Son of God.

Now, in this six-week training course, Lee and coauthor Mark Mittelberg will equip your church with practical tools to equip them articulate this same message to their unsaved friends and present evidence that backs up Jesus' claims and credentials.

As your group members go through the course, they will discover how to:

• Help their unsaved friends and family members open up to consider the case for Christ
• Describe their own personal journey with Christ and how it has impacted them
• Share with confidence about the biblical record of Christthat Jesus was real
• Present the evidence for the resurrection of Christthat Jesus died and was raised to life
• Explain the central message of Christ in an authentic and compelling way
• Help their unsaved friends and family members respond to the truth of Jesus

Making Your Case for Christ is designed to help Christians, both young and old, understand and articulate the message of Christ along with evidence that backs up his claims and credentials. The training course will combine high points of the historical apologetics presented in The Case for Christ book and movie with specific evangelistic training related to this information. Each session will feature a teaching from Lee and Mark and, as part of a special deal with PureFlix, will include a relevant clip (or set of clips) from The Case for Christ movie. A comprehensive leader's guide is also included to help course facilitators use the teaching and movie clips to guide the discussion times.

Sessions include:

• Helping Friends Consider the Case for Christ
• Describing Your Own Journey with Christ
• Backing Up the Biblical Record of Christ
• Presenting Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ
• Explaining the Central Message of Christ
• Encouraging Friends to Follow Christ

This training course kit contains one each of:

• The Case for Christ, Revised and Updated Edition
• Making Your Case for Christ Study Guide
• Making Your Case for Christ Video Study DVD
• Making Your Case for Christ Leaders Guide

Author Bio

Lee Strobel was the award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune and is the bestselling author of The Case for Christ, The Case for Christ Devotional, The Case for Christianity Answer book, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and The Case for Grace. With a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale, Lee has won four Gold Medallions for publishing excellence and coauthored the Christian Book of the Year. He serves as Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University. Lee Strobel was the award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune and is the bestselling author of The Case for Christ, The Case for Christ Devotional, The Case for Christianity Answer book, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and The Case for Grace. With a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale, Lee has won four Gold Medallions for publishing excellence and coauthored the Christian Book of the Year. He serves as Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University. Mark Mittelberg is a best-selling author and international speaker. His books include The Unexpected Adventure (with Lee Strobel), The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask (With Answers), and Confident Faith. He is also the primary author of the award-winning Becoming a Contagious Christian training course (with Lee Strobel and Bill Hybels), which has been translated into more than 20 languages and used by more than 1,500,000 people around the world.