A Better Light. Image from: You re Not OK If You Say I m Not OK

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1 A Better Light Image from: You re Not OK If You Say I m Not OK

2 A Different Perspective of Right Image from: God s word has always taught right and wrong.

3 A Different Perspective of Right Image from: It affirms right with God or not right with God.

4 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 [9] Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

5 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 [10] nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

6 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 [11] Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

7 2 Corinthians 5:10 [10] For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

8 Mark 16:16 16 He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

9 Matthew 7: Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

10 Jonathan Merritt in The Atlantic, March 25, 2016 In The New York Times last week, David Brooks argued that while American college campuses were awash in moral relativism as late as the 1980s, a shame culture has now taken its place.

11 Jonathan Merritt in The Atlantic, March 25, 2016 The subjective morality of yesterday has been replaced by an ethical code that, if violated, results in unmerciful moral crusades on social media.

12 Jonathan Merritt in The Atlantic, March 25, 2016 it orbits around values like tolerance and inclusion. (This new code has created a paradoxical moment in which all is tolerated except the intolerant and all included except the exclusive.)

13 A Different Perspective of Right Image from: In our culture, the only wrong is to say someone is not right.

14 John 3: This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

15 John 3: For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

16 John 3: But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.

17 Acts 7: And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

18 Acts 7: On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?

19 Acts 7: But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

20 1 John 3:13 13 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.

21 Image from: How to Share the Gospel In This Climate?

22 Image from: 1) First, we must get our heart right.

23 1 Peter 3:15 15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

24 Image from: 2) Second, some things that must lead the way: Prayer

25 Colossians 4:2-4 2 Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving; 3 praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned;

26 Colossians 4:2-4 4 that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak.

27 Image from: 2) Second, some things that must lead the way: Love

28 John 13:35 35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.

29 Image from: 2) Second, some things that must lead the way: Example

30 1 Peter 2:12 12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

31 Image from: 3) Third, when we interact with people: Walk in wisdom and speak with grace

32 Colossians 4:5-6 5 Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. 6 Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.

33 Image from: 4) If someone should get offended

34 1 Peter 4:16 16 but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not to be ashamed, but is to glorify God in this name.