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Kip is a pastor at Compass Church in Bend, Oregon. He was born in 1963 and raised in Missouri, where he was dropped multiple times on his head as a young child, causing him to join the army upon graduating high school in 1981. A little slow on the uptake, he was immediately accepted for officer training. He went to Kansas University for his undergrad in journalism and a masters degree in international relations, including a stint at Leningrad State University, USSR, giving him an affinity for the KGB, borsch and people who don’t like a periodic solid application of deodorant. After graduation, he served with distinction for nearly 25 years as an officer in the army, from Germany, to Iraq, to Bosnia, to all around Asia, retiring at the rank of colonel.
Kip and his wife, Linda, have been married for more than 20 years and have three awesome kids – Kyle (19), Allie (17), and Katie (14). Kip has worked with youth for more than a decade, from teaching martial arts and combatives to being an academy professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Kip's number one focus is to bring teenagers to Christ and show them what a blast life is with Him as your focus. Kip has a Master of Divinity degree and is developing a permanent eye twitch from too much studying as he works toward his Doctorate of Biblical Studies. He can be reached at
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Hobbies: Spending prime time with my wife and kids; snow skiing, collecting belly button lint
Favorite Actor: Bruce Willis Favorite Actress: Betty Rubble Favorite Movies: Gladiator; Rudy; Facing the Giants, Hudson Hawk (okay, I know, it was definitely not Bruce Willis’ best!)
Favorite Movie Line: “She turned me into a gnute...I got better...” (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Favorite TV Shows: CSI (Las Vegas and Miami...not CSI NY...too gray and dreary), Lost
Favorite Singers/Bands: Bruce Springsteen, Classic Rock, some country as long as it doesn’t make me want to marry my sister
Favorite Restaurant in Central Oregon: El Jimador
Best Books I’ve Ever Read: The Shack, When the Legends Die, Flowers for Algernon, Of Mice and Men, any book with small words, large font, and lots of pictures
Favorite Verse: Isaiah 40:31: “But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
People I Would Love To Spend A Day With: Billy Graham, my Grammy (went home to be with the Lord in 1995)
1. Babbling on from Babylon – How did we get here? Why do we even need to worry about other religions and cultures?
· Genesis 11:1-9
· Creation and mankind
· The great dispersion and the religions that sprang from it
o Animism
o Pantheism
o Hinduism
o Judaism
o Taoism
o Shintoism
o Buddhism
o Christianity
o Islam
o New Age Movement
2. What does Jesus say about this?
- John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1st Timothy 2:5
- The “20-20” look at John 14:6
3. Do all paths lead to God? A closer look.
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Christianity
4. Why do we care about commonalities between religions? Are all religions totally wrong?
5. Key Components of “De Opresso Liber”
- Build trust
- Befriend, don’t condemn
- Be certain of your cause and speak with conviction
- Don’t leave ‘em hangin’
- Long term process
6. Outreach in action: The Bruce Olsen Story
- Background
- Techniques
- Results
7. The Four “Must”keteers
- Understand world faiths
- Be prepared to defend the Bible as the Word of God
- Be Jesus with skin
- Listen, listen, listen and do less talking
Discussion Questions
1.Why is an understanding of world faiths important to us as Christians?
2.Do you have non-Christian friends? If so, how can you share your faith with them in a way that’s not threatening to them?
3.A phrase we often use is that we need to be “Jesus with Skin”
- What does that mean?
- How could that affect our friendships with others, especially non-Christians?
- How would being Jesus with skin affect the way non-Christians look at Christians?
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