There's a dialogue going on that your church won't want to miss!

The runaway best-selling novel by Dan Brown and now, the soon-to-be-released movie, The Da Vinci Code, have placed the veracity of the Christian faith into the center of debate like never before.

Now, in a special 90-minute CCN seminar, you can educate your congregation and equip your leaders to leverage The Da Vinci Code movie and book to effectively reach out to the spiritual seekers in your community!

The controversial tenets of The Da Vinci Code present a very unique opportunity to Christians. Rarely do we have such a platform to discuss the truth about Jesus so openly.

In an article written by Dr. Richard Mouw, President of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, (quoted in the Feb. 9 New York Times), says:

It's [The Da Vinci Code] going to be water cooler conversation, so Christians need to take a deep breath, buy the book and shell out the money for the movie. Then we need to educate Christians about what all this means. We need to help them answer someone who says, 'So how do you know Jesus didn't get married?'

This exciting training will feature evangelism experts Lee Strobel, author of The Case for Christ, Mark Mittelberg, author of Building a Contagious Church, Dr. Paul Maier, Professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University and co-author of The Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction, and Ken Baugh, senior pastor of Coast Hills Community Church in Southern California, whose church is actively using the Da Vinci controversy as an outreach and teaching opportunity.

During this important training you and your congregation will receive:

• Answers to crucial questions raised by the movie
• Strategies for using The Da Vinci Code phenomenon to communicate the authentic Gospel.

Da Vinci Code Evangelism Training will equip your congregation with the necessary tools to launch an outreach campaign in your community!

Following this training, we hope you'll invite your entire community to join you the week of the movie release for CCN's Unlocking the Da Vinci Code outreach event on Sunday, May 21.

Join us for these two exciting programs and open the door to life-changing conversations in your community!

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 and consultant in outreach and evangelism. He is the author of Building a Contagious Church: Revolutionizing the Way We View and Do Evangelism; co-author with Bill Hybels of the best-selling Becoming a Contagious Christian; contributing editor of The Journey, a Bible for spiritual seekers; and the primary author of the celebrated Becoming a Contagious Christian Training Course, which has been translated into twenty languages and taught to more than a million people around the globe.

Dr. Paul Maier is the professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University. He has received the Distinguished Scholar and Alumni Teaching Excellence awards and Professor of the Year award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. His research includes manuscript and text analysis, archaeology, and comparison of sacred and secular sources from the first century A.D. He has published numerous articles and books, including In the Fullness of Time – A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church and with Hank Hanegraaff, The Da Vinci Code – Fact or Fiction?

Ken Baugh is the Senior Pastor of Coast Hills Community Church. Most recently, Ken served at McLean Bible Church in Virginia as both the Associate Senior Pastor and the founding pastor of Frontline Ministry, one of the leading models of ministry for young adults in the country. Ken has co-authored two books, Getting Real: An Interactive Guide to Relational Ministry and The Quest for Christ: Spiritual Formation for the Next Generation.