Blaugmenting Your Christian Worldview: Almost Done

How about this for a group study. I cam across this blog whose stated aim is to buck the trend for Jesus:

"I hate the statistic that informs us that 75% of high school students will walk away from their faith shortly after leaving high school. I plan our studies with the intent of lowering that statistic with each student that comes in. My goals include:
removing intellectual excuses people give for claiming Christianity is false
removing students in these studies from the pond that pseudo-Christian movements fish from (Groups like the Watchtower & Mormonism normally convert Christians into their movements. Not these students!)
helping students develop spiritual disciplines (prayer, reading and studying the Bible, memorization, sharing our faith)."
Maybe this will inspire others to start such a group. His book choice for the group, Ron Rhode's "Reasoning from the Scriptures with Jehovah's Witnesses" is an excellent choice and no small challenge - but it goes to show it can be done. I like his plans for the future too.

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