Jesus Starter Pack: Why believe in any of this?

Step One: Dealing with morality and the purpose/meaning of life

http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/other-media/conferences-seminars/letters-from-skeptic
Check out Week 2's Introduction: "Why Believe in God?"

OR

this testimony (it's the same as above, a bit more detailed):
http://reknew.org/2013/05/gregs-testimony/

OR

C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity (here's the entire book):
http://usminc.org/images/MereChristianitybyCSLewis.pdf


My notes: This is my favorite theologian, Greg Boyd (you'll be seeing a lot of him on this blog. Probably too much), and it's a sermon that revolves around his testimony. The main points revolve around dealing with finding meaning in life. He talks about his struggle with nihilism, dabbling in drugs and Eastern religions, and going in and out of the Christian faith.

The main tidbit here is his realization: If life has no purpose or meaning, why should human beings almost universally evolve to desire purpose and meaning? Where does that come from? There's no other unfulfilled desire in the world that has no answer for it: when we're hungry, we can eat. When we're horny, we can have sex. This is very similar to C.S. Lewis' main argument in Mere Christianity: If there is no meaning to life, how should we ever realize that there is none?


Step Two: Why believe in Jesus as the son of God

http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/sermon-series/jesus-for-thinking-people

Check out the entire series

My Notes (summary of the above sermons. However, I suggest you listen to it, because Boyd is much better at presenting this argument. I'm seriously just taking notes here):