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2017 SUMMER SEMINARS AT HOSPERS PCA

2017 SUMMER SEMINARS AT HOSPERS PCA June 20 “ Beyond the Blame Game: Moving Past the Failures of Others ” July 18 “ Share Jesus Without Fear: A Practical Method of Personal Evangelism ” July 25 “ Apologetics 101: Dealing with Difficult Objections to the Christian Faith ”

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2017 SUMMER SEMINARS AT HOSPERS PCA

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  1. 2017 SUMMER SEMINARS AT HOSPERS PCA June 20 “Beyond the Blame Game: Moving Past the Failures of Others” July 18 “Share Jesus Without Fear: A Practical Method of Personal Evangelism” July 25 “Apologetics 101: Dealing with Difficult Objections to the Christian Faith” August 22 “Depression: A Biblical Look at the Fastest Growing Mood Disorder Today” (All seminars are at the church and begin at 7:00 p.m.)

  2. THE BLAME GAME:Moving Past the Failures of Others

  3. Introduction to Summer Seminars Why Summer Seminars? 1. Summer can be intellectually and spiritually dry. 2. Many subjects need attention. 3. Where does a preacher fit it all in?

  4. INTRODUCTION Why are you here? 1. Intellectual interest. 2. Personal interest. “Adam (subject) blamed Eve (object)”

  5. I. AN ILLUSTRATION OF MACRO BLAMING Origins of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) 1. Limited racism among early leaders.

  6. I. AN ILLUSTRATION OF MACRO BLAMING Origins of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) 1. Limited racism among early leaders. 2. 2016 General Assembly: Confession and Repentance of this past racism.

  7. I. AN ILLUSTRATION OF MACRO BLAMING Origins of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) 1. Limited racism among early leaders. 2. 2016 General Assembly: Confession and Repentance of this past racism. 3. Now what? Where do we go from here?

  8. I. AN ILLUSTRATION OF MACRO BLAMING 1. Any continued racism – repentance! 2. Anything else? Can a denomination prove it is not racist? Can you logically prove a negative? e.g., “Can you prove there is no gold in Iowa?”

  9. I. AN ILLUSTRATION OF MACRO BLAMING What if we elect a minority moderator? Will that prove we are not racist? 2017 Greensboro, NC PCA Elects first minority moderator, Alex Jun.

  10. “Dr. Alexander Jun has been elected moderator of the 45th General Assembly. Jun is a founding member and a ruling elder of New Life Mission Church in Fullerton, California, and the first ethnic minority elected as moderator of the Assembly.”

  11. MACRO BLAMING IN THE CULTURE 1. A “Culture of Victimhood”

  12. MACRO BLAMING IN THE CULTURE 1. A “Culture of Victimhood” 2. BullyingTRAUMA 3. “Trauma Healing”

  13. “INTERSECTIONALITY” 1. Coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, 1989

  14. “INTERSECTIONALITY” 1. Coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, 1989 2. “Where various forms of discrimination or oppression intersect in a single person.”

  15. What happens when the patches on the diversity quilt start fighting each other?

  16. II. THE ORIGIN OF BLAMING.

  17. . Three core principles: 1. We sin against God and others. 2. We are sinned against by others. 3. We often react sinfully to being sinned against.

  18. II. THE ORIGIN OF BLAMING. • 1. The Blame Game began in a Garden Paradise.

  19. 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:1-5)

  20. “6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.” (Genesis 3:6)

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