Training Grace Bible Church in Moore, South Carolina, to Present Historical Arguments for Believing in Jesus’s Resurrection

Abstract

This project aims to equip the members of Grace Bible Church in Moore, South Carolina, to share historical arguments for believing in Jesus. Chapter 1 presents the ministry context of GBC as well as the rationale and various goals of this project. Chapter 2 unpacks 1 Corinthians 15:3–8 and demonstrates that Jesus’s resurrection from the dead can be historically verified. Chapter 3 reviews Dale Allison Jr.’s The Resurrection of Jesus and explains that Allison’s arguments do not ultimately undermine Christ’s bodily resurrection. Chapter 4 recounts the implementation of the project itself. The implementation included conducting pre-series surveys, preaching a six-week sermon series, writing complementary six-week small group curriculum, and conducting post-series surveys to determine progress among project participants. Chapter 5 evaluates the effectiveness of the project based on the completion of the specified goals. Based on a t-test for dependent samples, this chapter demonstrates a positive statistically significant difference in the pre- and post-survey overall scores: t(60) = -10.256, p < .001.