• Defining our terms

  Non-Christian Religions -- any not claiming                                                               as the only way to salvation

  Materialism (see Agnosticism, Atheism, Evolutionism, Humanism, Secularism...)

                                                                         -- human beings seen as the highest thing in the universe

                                                -- full blown movement away from the Creator

                                                          -- complete emphasis on material world; absence of any "God"

• Compared and Contrasted

  The Same: The author is the                          .

  Different: What is the goal of my existence?                                or                                                   bigger?

• More Dangerous?           ...but                

  Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
  Acts 4:12

  I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
  Philippians 3:10-11

• Beware! The                                                             era: "All roads lead to                                                   "

• Why Christianity makes sense...or                          it?

  I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate
  Isaiah 29:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19

                                 crucified? (1 Corinthians 1:23)

                                , the                           of God AND the                                of God (1 Corintians 1:24)

  I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes.
  Romans 1:16

My material and my God:

1.                           is it?

2. He wouldn't use it,                           he?

3. Just