Keynote Speaker
Steve Ray
"Swimming Upstream: Living a Christian Life in a Pagan World"
Pagans worshiped many gods. Christians were allowed to worship Jesus along with the pagan gods as one among equals. Caesar too claimed divinity. But Christians said, “No!” They would bow only to the one true God and refused to burn incense to pagan deities. Because of their unflagging principals, they became persecuted outcasts, treated with malice. Sound familiar? With his usual enthusiasm, Steve explains how culture is falling back into a new paganism (we call it pluralism) with the West, worshipping at the altars of comfort, affluence, and self indulgence. He’ll get your heart pumping as he challenges you to swim upstream and make a deadly choice: to stay faithful or keep your head and lose your soul.
