2. that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality
truth
that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality

3. postmodernist truth
There is no truth. There is convenience and illusion, but nothing that we can declare as complete truth.

4. video
Pilate what is truth Oprah your truth Giuliani truth isn’t truth Nicholson you can’t handle the truth Johnny Cash the lonely voice of youth cries: what is truth

5. Surveys tell us that many Christian teens struggle with faith when they go off to college or university

6. what can we be sure of?

7. Generate questions

8. questions
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9. John 18:37
“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

10. John 18:38
What is truth?” retorted Pilate.

11. what is truth?

12. you cannot believe everything you read on the Internet
True news Information American news
Fake news Disinformation Russian news
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13. If that gets you depressed

14. between early 1500s & the mid 1600s there was in this 130 year period of almost non-stop Christian on Christian violence

16. Peace of Westphalia

17. tolerance

18. secularism

19. tolerance

20. pluralism

21. truth

22. but when you’re in a pluralistic society

23. how do I know my beliefs are true?

24. absolute truth personal truth private truth your truth
We can’t talk about absolute truth that applies to everyone

25. Truth truth
Not truth with a capital T

26. truth is relativized

27. the right to your own truth

28. You can’t hurt anybody You have a right to your own truth Blame terrorism
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29. religious beliefs are dangerous

30. called to love all people

31. Jesus Christ is Lord

32. Philippians 2:10-11
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

33. there is no absolute truth

34. truth is always narrow

35. 2 + 2 =

36. truth is always narrow

37. no one really believes in relativism

39. Jesus made absolute truth claims

40. John 14:6
I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. I’m one of the ways, one of the truths, one of the life’s.
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41. Burger King religion

42. Acts 4:11-12
Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
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43. One Lord One God One Savior

44. 1 Peter 3:15-16
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.

45. 1 Corinthians 16:14
Do everything in love

46. 1 Corinthians 13:1-2
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

47. winning the debate becomes more important to you than showing the other person that you love them

48. Zip it

50. We believe Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, we therefore look to no other.

51. We believe Jesus is Lord of all, so we pledge our allegiance to no other

52. We believe Jesus will reign forever, so we pledge no hope in any other

53. As we now go out into the world we do so with a commitment to live in the way, the truth and the life of Jesus Christ