Worldview Teen Track

Dates: July 30 – 31st, 2010
Times: Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM; Saturday, 10 AM to 3 PM
Cost: $45 per person

At Worldview Teen Track, your child will be challenged to think hard about their faith and how it applies to the modern predicament. Students ages 13 and above are treated like real people who wrestle with real issues — and who need answers that match the real world.

The Worldview Teen Track experience is unlike any other.

Sessions

Friday, July 30, 2010

10:00 AM – Creation-Evolution: What’s the big deal? I just want to tell people about Jesus! – “Who cares whether it was 6 days or 6 million years!?  Isn’t this discussion unnecessarily divisive to the Christian community? Are we not losing credibility with the scientific community and hurting the cause of Christ among non-Christians by insisting on a literal interpretation of Genesis 1-3?” Learn to respond biblically to such charges so that “no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception.”

11:15 AM – Follow Christ? It’s just a ‘fad!’ Will it pass the test of time? (II Timothy 1:7) – Christian parents and teachers want their children and their students to love God with all, and they commit to training their children to this end. Exactly how does that translate into our culture? What is a FAD? Learn the three characteristics Christians must have and must instill in teens if we want Christianity to be a FAD for the next generation.

12:30 PM – Lunch (not provided)

1:45 PM – Simple Tools for Brain Surgery (II Corinthians 10:5) – Non-Christians seem to have the advantage in our culture. We, as Christians, are sometimes intimidated by or even afraid to talk with many Atheists, New-Agers and Evolutionists. Too often, we fear we won’t have answers to their tough questions. Be encouraged. Learn four killer questions that will help to destroy the secular thinking that is encasing the minds of friends, relatives and others. Learn to destroy sloppy, secular arguments without destroying the person.

3:00 PM – Seven Habits of Highly Suppressive People – Why do people reject the reliability of the Bible? Because they “suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18). Christians should be able to answer those objections. Christians should, also, be able to recognize the seven habits that people develop in suppressing the truth which are listed in Romans 1:21-23. Come see these seven habits come to life through interviews with non-Christians on a college campus. Learn how you, too, can give a defense of your faith in gentleness and reverence (I Peter 3:15).

Saturday, July 31, 2010

10:00 AM – When Parents and Teachers use the “F-Word”: Why Fun should not be a part of a Christian’s vocabulary (II Timothy 2:3) – We are raising a generation of “fun-junkies” in Christian youth ministry. However, we have an opportunity to reverse that tide by training young soldiers for Jesus Christ. We can do so by teaching them four basic duties. Learn what these duties are and how practically to teach them to your teens.

11:15 AM – Torn Between Two World Views: The Christian in a Secular Culture (II Timothy 2:24-26) – Train your students to discern world views and to understand their impact on every aspect of our culture. We will analyze the impact of world views on our culture through interviews with those who hold opposing world views. This is a great opportunity to learn practical tools to reach non-Christians and to confront the culture with the Truth.

12:30 PM – Lunch (not provided)

1:45 PM – The Culture’s Pulpits (Acts 17:22) – From peach baskets to pitching mounds, from movies to museums, from… well, come discover what tools and opportunities you might be overlooking to use in reaching this culture. Learn how to take what is common to the culture and turn it into a pulpit to share Christ. Practical strategies and insights!

About the Instructor

Bill Jack is an educator with ten years experience in secular schools and 14 years with The Caleb Campaign, a creationist youth ministry. Bill Jack is faculty advisor for Worldview Academy, an academic leadership program which seeks to train Christian students to think and live in accord with a Biblical worldview so that they will serve Christ and lead the culture. Appearing on several radio and television programs, Bill’s passion is to raise up a generation who have the vision to reach their culture with the gospel, who have the valor to engage that culture with the truth and who rely on the virtue of the Word of God. Bill and his wife, Tabby, homeschool and live with their three children in Castle Rock, CO.