1. WHY AM I (SHOULD I BE) A CHRISTIAN? CHRISTIANITY 101 Friday, September 12, 2003 – The Chill Week #6

2. Ecclesiastes 12:1 “Honor and enjoy your Creator while you’re still young…” (MSG)

3. PROBLEMS WE FACE AS TEENAGERS:

4. INSECURITY PROBLEMS WE FACE AS TEENAGERS:

5. Acts 16:31 “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved…” (NIV)

6. SIGNIFICANCE AND HAPPINESS PROBLEMS WE FACE AS TEENAGERS:

7. Ecclesiastes 2:4-11 “I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself…I made gardens and parks…I amassed silver and gold for myself…I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me…

8. My heart took delight in all my work…Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.” (NIV)

9. 3 REASONS TO BELIEVE IN CHRISTIANITY:

10. THE BIBLE’S ____________. #1 RELIABILITY

11. Galatians 1:11-12 “I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.”

12. 3 REASONS TO BELIEVE IN CHRISTIANITY: #2 EVERYONE MUST HAVE _______. FAITH

13. John 20:29 “Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’”

14. 3 REASONS TO BELIEVE IN CHRISTIANITY: #3 LIVES IT’S POWER TO CHANGE ______.

15. Galatians 1:23-24 “They only heard the report: ‘The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.’ And they praised God because of me.”