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1. Michael Ramsden – Evidential Spirituality
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2. The Failings of the Church
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     • The evening that inspired Ravi Zacharias’s latest book: “Has Christianity Failed You?”
     • On May 11, 2006, Ravi Zacharias, and Michael Ramsden confronted the question of the failure of Christianity before a sold-out audience at Atlanta’s renowned Fox Theatre.
     • Here, both speakers address the failings of the Church and seek to demonstrate the difference between those who falsely claim to represent the church, and those who truly serve it.
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3. Ravi Zacharias – The American Church
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     • Is America Really Christian?
       Category: Religion and Philosophy
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       Channel:- Faith Reason
       Uploaded:- 2010-November-18th
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In Depth

The Failings of the Church ( Question from Charles )

Question

The Church today is :-

1. Bio-politics
2. Filled with hate
3. Veiled racism
4. Misappropriation of funds, etc.
5. Why should I associate with the church with recognition of

Answer :- Michael Ramsden ( Segment 0 – 3:45 )

1. Life-Changing
   • If we preach a life-changing message
   • People should expect to see lives changed
2. Preached word
   • The fact that many preach a dissonant message should make us think and ponder
   • But, not to despair
3. Distinction
   • You yourself are making a distinction between the true church and the church
   • Which we agree can be dominated by so many other factors
   • Agreeably, is no church at all
4. British TV
   • Atheist lined up against me
   • What about all the things done in the name of Christianity like wars
   • I will say look at other tenants
     • Democracy
       • I will say if you at leadership and see fault
       • I will say don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater
5. Moral Categories
   • Allow the moral categories to lead you
   • Trying to examine the moral categories outside of God will be very difficult
   • Do not forsake Christ because of something you might have seen somewhere
6. Search
   • In response, search for the truth
   • Jesus said if anyone comes looking for him, I will in no way cast him aside
7. Middle East
   • I grew up in the middle east in Saudi Arabia
   • If anyone calls a Church Meeting, there is no forgiveness for that sin
8. Church – Went to church for the first time
   • Filled with hypocrites
9. Church – Went to church – In time
   • But, then just a short time later met one or two people
   • They meant it and there was something very different about their lives

Answer:- Ravi Zacharias

1. News we hear
   • Proximate Christianity to that news
2. In the Middle East
   • Medical Care
     • In the 70s
     • At the tip of the Sahara
     • Went to a place where people besieged with Leprosy are being cared for
     • As I approached the door, I was scared to touch the door’s knob
     • Here I am, people are binding the wound, yet I think my Jesus is not enough to safeguard me
3. Jesus – approach cross
   • People
     • People sold him out
     • Peter denied him
     • His disciples were like a bunch of boy scouts hiding far behind
   • Army
     • It was not a mighty army moving the church of God
   • Entrusted
     • And, that is who he entrusted his message to

Ravi Zacharias – The American Church

1. Problems with America is not America, but the Church
2. Engineered
   • We have become experts at engineering feelings without forethought
3. Thinking
   • Very little thinking goes on in Church
   • Chorus
     • Repeat Things
     • Parrot Things
     • Not listening to what is being said or asked of us
   • Our answers are very shallow
4. Bargained
   • In exchange for seeker-friendly, we have become message unfriendly
5. Lacks Depth
6. Life
   • Life has its jagged edges against us
   • yet, we are giving simplistic answers
7. Entrapped
   • Music
     • We are thinking music is everything
     • Forgetting it is only one thing
8. Other Important Tools
   • Teaching and Ideals are important
9. Quotes
   • “Expenditure of words without an income of ideas will lead to conceptual bankruptcy”
   • “We are so conceptually bankrupt on this”
   • “We will sink deeper and deeper into parroting phrases that will have little relevance in ours and others lifestyles”
   • And, that is our real problem
10. On the Other Side
    • Are young people
    • Who is trying to ask the hard questions
11. Europe
    • Europe is expelling Christianity
    • But, that will not last forever
    • It will not be ill-religious for long
    • In time, another religion will step in
    • And, completely change their culture
    • A religion giving to them by choice will be replaced with religion that will not be given by choice
    • That new religion will take over
12. The world will be dramatically affected by two nations in the next century, China and India