The Trouble with the Truth Leader Guide: Balancing Truth and Grace

by Rob Renfroe

Publisher:

Abingdon Press

, 2014

Overview

There’s a lot of talk today about “culture wars,” but these external conflicts are only a symptom of a deeper problem: there is trouble with the truth. Beneath our differences about the values that should define our culture is a real disagreement about what is true. Those who hold to the traditional beliefs of the Christian faith find themselves at odds with a culture that no longer believes there are universal spiritual or moral truths that apply to everyone. And they grieve that the confusion about what is true is just as strong in the church. The Trouble with the Truth explores the truth—why it’s in trouble, what the culture tells us about it, and why the church is so confused about it. In an engaging and compelling style, Rob Renfroe reminds us that the Christian life requires commitment to both truth and grace. Like a tightrope walker with a balance bar, we must learn to balance compassion for people and passion for truth, combining them in equal measure just as Jesus did. Readers will examine the essentials about truth and grace, understand the differences between a cultural worldview and a scriptural worldview, and discover how to be instruments of real influence and transformation in our time by following Jesus’s example. The Leader Guide contains six session plan outlines, complete with discussion points and questions, activities, prayers, and more—plus leader helps for facilitating a group.

Key Features

Book with accompanying leader guide and DVD creates a dynamic group study featuring Rob Renfro.

Stand-alone trade book also serves as the main book for group study.

Leader Guide includes outlines for six group sessions plus leader helps.

DVD includes six video segments of roughly 10-15 minutes each, featuring compelling interviews with the author.

Readers will look together at the truth why it s in trouble, what the culture tells us about it, and why the church is so confused about it.

Readers will come to be certain that one can be a person of both grace and truth.

Readers will be more convinced than ever that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a true and sure foundation for your life and for the lives of others.

Readers will know that you can hold onto the truth with all your might and at the same time reach out a hand to persons who disagree with you.

Product Details

• Title : The Trouble with the Truth Leader Guide: Balancing Truth and Grace
• Author: Renfroe, Rob
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• ISBN: 9781630880347