A Training Course on Creation

A one-day course designed to prepare Christians to teach and present accurately and with confidence a biblical worldview of origins using the Bible, scientific evidence, and critical thinking skills. Learn how to teach about origins (creation/evolution) from a biblical worldview

Target Audience:  Christian school teachers, Sunday school teachers, pastors, youth leaders, home school educators, and parents

Course Cost: $45 per student (price includes lunch, student manual, and DVD)

Student Materials:  Each student will receive a student manual and a DVD containing PowerPoint presentations and graphics.

Course Location: (TBD:  by request - contact CTI at mriddle@creationtraining.org)

Class Times: The class begins at 8:30 and ends at 5:30. Students should begin arriving about 8:00.

This course is ACSI approved for 1 Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
in either Education or Bible

Course Content: Course topics include:

• Preamble: The core message
  • Understanding the challenge
  • The main issue
  • Neutrality and the Christian
    
  • Presentation approaches
  • Biblical relevance
  • Evidential
  • Foundational
  • Presuppositional
  • Four components of a relevance talk

• Chapter 1: The relevance of creation to Christian doctrine
• Biblical worldview
• Matthew 22:37
• Two different worldviews 
• The church is replacing their biblical worldview
• Biblical discernment
• 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22
• Requirements of a discerning mind
• Should the church teach about science?
• Biblical warnings
• Colossians 2:8 (Beware of deceit)
• Galatians 2:4, Jude 4 (Beware of false teachers)
• 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (Beware of false doctrines)
• 1 Peter 3:15 and  2 Timothy 2:15 (We need to
• Education – the battleground
  • America as a Christian nation
  • Three independent studies
  • A major battlefield: The education system
  • What schools teach and don’t teach
  • The battle for foundations and John 3:12
  • How did this happen?
  • “Fish Out of Water”
• Four challenges to biblical authority
  • The word “day” does not have to mean a literal day
  • God could have used evolution
  • The Fall only refers to spiritual death and not physical death
  • The Genesis Flood was a local flood and not a worldwide flood
  • Just preach Jesus because teaching about creation is too divisive.
• A strategy and a solution
• Chapter 2: Apologetics (presuppositions, foundations, and critical thinking)
• Six reasons for apologetics
  1. Evangelism
  2. Strengthens believer’s faith
  3. Makes the Bible relevant to the unbeliever
  4. Equips believers to defend their faith
  5. Equips parents to train and protect their children
  6. Demonstrates obedience to God’s Word
• A new way to read: fuzzy word and magic words
• Apologetics – applying 1 Peter 3:15
• Two foundational questions
  • Where did the matter come from to create the Universe?
  • How did life originate?
• A presuppoistional question: Where did God come from?
• Answering the challenge, “That’s just your interpretation.”

• Chapter 3: Understanding the scientific evidence
• Critical thinking, logic, and science
• Biological change: mutationsa nd natural selection
• Famous cases of evolution and critical thinking
  
• The age of the earth
  • Observational science
  • Historical science
  • Assumptions and the age of the earth
• Understanding carbon-14
• Are long ages necessary?
  • Mount Saint Helens
  • Coal, oil, and petrified wood
  • Stalactites
• The best of evolution - antibiotic resistence and superbugs

• Chapter 4: Educating for success – making Christian education the best education
• A terrible sin
• The 80% goal
• Setting the end result
• Establishing the intermediate objectives
• Achieving the goal
• The Sunday hour of training
• Methods of encountering the troops

For more Information contact CTI
(859) 250-7987 or email: mriddle@creationtraining.org 

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.  (Proverbs 22:6)

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