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Excerpts from Vintage Faith |Dan Kimball post: New Network/Community: Passionate about Scripture, Innovation and Evangelism

I just spoke at Vintage Faith Church in our Clash series about the exclusive claims of Jesus and the New Testament in the midst of a pluralistic culture. ...

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I fully believe that we can teach truths from Scripture that even go against cultural norm, yet how we do it makes all the difference. With global faiths I believe we need to not shy from speaking what the Scriptures say - but doing so with compassion, understanding, listening and studying. ...

At the end of the message, I brought up a UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz) student who is getting her PhD. She was raised in a very strong Buddhist family. She grew up mainly in the USA but also had some time living over in Taiwan. She shared her story of growing up Buddhist and knowing nothing about Christianity. But then someone who was a Christian took interest in her and eventually invited her to church and then she began hearing about the stories of the Bible and began wrestling with the claims of Jesus and Christianity, and she eventually became a Christian. One of the things she said which stuck in my mind and heart was how glad she was that a Christian took the effort to befriend her and introduce her to Jesus and the Bible. And how much her life now feels purposeful as she believes she is here to be living her life as a disciple of Jesus and sharing about the joy of knowing Jesus in this life. It was obvious she lives this out, as while she was speaking she mentioned that 6 of her non-Christian friends were there in the church gathering to support her as she shared. It was really a beautiful thing.

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