Training Day - Equipping You to Live, Defend, and Share Your Faith

Training Day is a half-day event designed to help you take what we’ve learned in Acts and put it into action. We’ll look at the life of Paul and how he boldly reasoned with people about Jesus, then equip you to do the same in your own world. Through practical breakouts, you’ll learn how to engage neighbors of other faiths, practice biblical hospitality, strengthen your children’s faith, and respond to tough questions about God, the Bible, and Jesus. Come ready to be equipped to live, defend, and share your faith with confidence.

Schedule:
8:45am – Check in/coffee and pastries
9:00am – Group Session: Paul: Reasonable Faith, Relentless Witness (Acts 26:1-29)
9:30am – Break
9:40am – Breakout Sessions #1
10:30am – Break
10:40am – Breakout Sessions #2
11:30am – Lunch (grab and go to breakout rooms)
11:40am – Breakout Sessions #3 (“Choose your own adventure”)
12:30pm – Final Session: Testimony of Michael Ray Lewis, director of Universe Designed
1:00pm – Dismiss
1:30pm – Universe Designed showing in the Loft

Breakouts:
• Welcomed by God, Called to Welcome - Discover the impact of hospitality as a fundamental practice of the Christian life.
• Making a Reasonable Case for Christianity - A basic framework that builds the argument that Christianity should be reasonably considered a true belief.
• Evangelism: Going Against the Cultural Current - In a culture that often keeps faith private, learn to go against the current by cultivating a life — and a church — that boldly shares Jesus.
• Hope for the Hopeless - How to show the love of Jesus to someone in crisis, including those experiencing homelessness.
• Someone I Love is Gay - How to minister to LGBTQ identifying or struggling people in our lives.
• The Battle of Ideas: Worldviews and the Christian Mind - The philosophies Paul encountered in Acts 17 are still with us today. Learn to recognize the assumptions shaping today’s culture and respond from a mind grounded in Scripture.
• From Islam to Christ - Come hear the story of a devout Muslim’s journey of faith and learn how to reach your Muslim neighbor.
• How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith - How to genuinely walk with someone who is deconstructing their faith by creating a healthy environment where friendship, doctrine, and reconstruction can flourish.
• Faith Conversations at Work - Practical steps to launch faith-based conversations with your coworkers.
• Your Choice for Missions: Send, Go, or Disobey - Come learn how Watermark members mature as disciples to avoid disobedience, send missionaries to the unreached, and go as missionaries to plant churches and train pastors.
• The Nations in Your Neighborhood - Our story of how God is using ordinary hospitality in His extraordinary story.
• Helping Your Kids Navigate Faith and Doubt - How to build a strong foundation and not freak out when your kids ask tough questions.