Who is the real Jesus?

Every day, both Christians and non-Christians are bombarded by inaccurate and distorted views of Jesus.

From college classrooms to movies, best-selling books to the Internet, the historic picture of Jesus is under intellectual onslaught. This fierce attack on the traditional portrait of Christ has confused spiritual seekers and created doubt among many Christians, devastating the faith of many.

According to best-selling author and former spiritual skeptic, Lee Strobel, "Here's our opportunity to set the record straight and point them to the real Jesus."

This Palm Sunday, invite your community to a CCN outreach event based on Lee's latest and most timely book: The Case for the Real Jesus.

In this program, Lee will not only deal with the specific attacks that have emerged in our current culture, but he will build a fresh, persuasive case for the historic Jesus of the New Testament.

Lee will tackle several of the major challenges to Christianity circulating today, including:

• The trustworthiness of the New Testament.
• The possibility of alternative gospels.
• The truth about relativism.

Attract the interest of seekers...Minister to Christians whose faith has been shaken... Invite them all to encounter the real Jesus.

Lee Strobel a former spiritual skeptic, is the best-selling author of The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, and Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage (co-authored with his wife, Leslie) and Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. Formerly an award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, Lee has served as a Teaching Pastor at two of the country's largest and most-influential churches: Willow Creek and Saddleback.

Mark Mittelberg is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and a leading strategist in evangelism and apologetics-oriented outreach. He is the primary author (along with Lee Strobel and Bill Hybels) of the recently updated Becoming a Contagious Christian Training Course, through which more than a million people around the world have learned to effectively and naturally communicate their faith to others.  Mark’s new book, Choosing Your Faith ... In a World of Spiritual Options, is designed to strengthen the faith of Christians, and to be a resource to give to their friends who need to find faith. His other books include Becoming a Contagious Church, which sets forth an innovative blueprint for how churches can become better mobilized for outreach, and the Becoming a Contagious Christian book, which he co-authored with Hybels.

Downhere - These Canadian melodic alt-rockers hit the U.S. music scene in 2001. Powerful vocals, intelligent lyrics, and a commitment to ministering to their audiences, helped to earn them a Dove Award nomination for New Artist of the Year, a Juno Award for Best Gospel Album, and Canadian Gospel Music Association Covenant Awards for Rock Album of the Year and Rock Song of the Year ("Larger Than Life"). The 2003 release So Much For Substitutes earned the Dove Award for Modern Rock Recorded Song of the Year for "Breaking Me Down," as well as Best Male Vocalist honors from Christianmusictoday.com for co-lead vocalist Marc Martel.  The 2006 release, Wide Eyed and Mystified, includes the hit single "The Real Jesus".