Controversial Issues & Current Events Thinking Biblically -Talking Persuasively Seminar series providing an overview of hot button issues and a Biblical perspective on them. Goal: to equip participants with transitions to use in ongoing conversations to insert Biblical and spiritual viewpoints on today's issues & events.

1. Controversial Issues
&
Current Events
Thinking Biblically
Talking Persuasively
1 Peter 3:15; Colossians 4:5, 6

2. Thinking Biblically - Talking Persuasively
but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make
a defence to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope
that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; 1 Peter 3:15
Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of
the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, as though
seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to
each person. Colossians 4:5, 6

4. Controversial Issues
&
Current Events
@engagetony
#controissues
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5. What it isn’t
NOT:
debate prep
source for “zingers”
in-depth study
evangelism training

9. What it is
Overview of critical issues
Overview of Biblical perspectives
Equip you to insert Biblical perspectives
into ongoing conversations
Stimulate you to study the scriptures

10. Our Society & Culture
“How do we honor the biblical view of
human sexuality (or any topic) when
interacting and engaging with someone
who does not share a Christian worldview –
who does not accept the Bible as an
authority on any issue?”
~ Jim Daly
President
Focus on the Family

11. 9-Week Schedule
Weeks 1-3Radical Islam
Weeks 4-6Homosexuality &
Same-Sex Marriage
Week 7 Pornography
Week 8 Human Trafficking
Week 9 Abortion
Each week
Communication Principles
Conversation Techniques
Conversation Starters & Transitions Drills

12. Radical Islam I

13. June 2014

14. ISIS, ISIL, IS or Daesh
 IS: The Islamic State
‫الدولة‬‫اإلسالمية‬ (ad-Dawlah l-ʾIslāmiyyah)
 ISIS: Islamic State of Iraq & Syria
‫الدولة‬‫اإلسالمية‬‫في‬‫العراق‬‫والشام‬
 ISIL: The Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant
‫الدولة‬‫اإلسالمية‬‫في‬‫العراق‬‫والشام‬
 Daesh, Daʿesh or DAIISH
Arabic acronym: ‫داعش‬ Dawlet-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq wa al-Sham
daesh = “tread underfoot” (a filthy pejorative) or “crush”

15. The Levant
Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel,
The West Bank, Gaza, Egypt and Cyprus

16. ISIS, ISIL or IS claims to be a caliphate
 A caliphate (Arabic: ‫خالفة‬ khilāfa, "succession"):
an Islamic state led by a supreme religious and
political leader known as a caliph – i.e.
"successor" – to Muhammad
The first Muslim empires are usually described as
"caliphates". A caliphate was sovereign over the
entire Muslim faithful, (the Ummah).
The caliph ruled over it using Islamic law (sharia).

17. Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
 claims religious authority over all
Muslims across the world and
 aspires to political control of the Muslim-
inhabited regions of the world beginning
with territory in the Levant

18. Groups pledging support
or allegiance to
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

19. World Map depicting countries where groups are
pledging support or allegiance to the Islamic State

20. What comments do you hear people
make about radical Islam or the
situation in the Middle East?
What do you think are the
attitudes behind their remarks?
???

21. you might hear…
Fundamentalists are the same the world
over - a bunch of ignorant bigots prone to
violence
Islam is a religion of peace, ISIS doesn’t
represent most Muslims (next week)
America should get out &
let ‘em kill each other

22. Transitions
Comments and questions to help you:
Redirect a conversation
Insert biblical perspectives
Introduce your testimony &
the Good News

23. The Caliphate – Transitions 1
I’m taking a seminar on Current Events and
I’ve learned some fascinating things.
Do you know what’s behind all the Arab
governments opposing ISIS?

24. The Caliphate – Transitions 2
The leader of ISIS has proclaimed that the
Islamic State is a caliphate and he is the
caliph. Caliph is an Arabic word that means
“Successor”.
The leaders who came after Mohammed
were his successors. Like Mohammed, they
required all true Muslims to obey them as
both their religious and political leader.

25. The Caliphate – Transitions 3
Abu Bakr, the ISIS Caliph is claiming that all
Muslims and Muslim lands should obey him
and (as part of their religious duty) they are
to then conquer the rest of the world.
Have you ever heard that?

26. The Caliphate – Transitions 4
How does that hit you?
(Make you feel?
What do you think about that?)
I tell you it makes me (think, feel, believe…
________________________________________ )

27. Transitions

28. What do I say next?
You can start using these transitions immediately.
Next? Ask yourself:
“What direction do I want to take this conversation?
What do I want this person to understand?
What do I want this person to do?”

29. over the next 8 weeks
You’ll learn:
 two different types of immediate transitions
 what comes next transitions
 effective conversational techniques based on
sound Biblical doctrine.

30. Bible Study
Assignment

31. Next Week
Radical Islam II
or
why “radical” Muslims aren’t so radical

32. Controversial Issues
&
Current Events
Thinking Biblically - Talking Persuasively
1 Peter 3:15; Colossians 4:5, 6
Tony.Arnold@EngagePRHelp.com
M# 919-244-3375