When young adults talk about the problems they have with Christianity and the church, they often name certain attitudes and behaviors they believe are practiced too often by Christians: judging others, condemning people of other faiths, rejecting science, injecting politics into faith, and being anti-homosexual. With his familiar style, Adam Hamilton tackles these issues and addresses the how’s and why’s of Christians getting it right when it comes to being Christ in the world.

Those who complete this study will gain a different way of understanding the issues that keep people away from Christianity and keep Christians from living a more compelling faith. "Because, honestly, if we don’t start getting it right, we may lose an entire generation."

 

Dawn will lead the ladies in a basic introduction on the origins of the Bible in order to understand why the Apocrypha is included in Roman Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, but not in the Protestant versions; then we will dig into the book of "Judith", a story written for a mid-second century audience in the midst of horrible persecution who are delivered from their despair and given God's victory through the hand of a woman.