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 fall, 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 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.

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".