Twisting the Truth Bible Study Participant's Guide
By Andy Stanley
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Andy Stanley
Andy Stanley, like his father, Charles Stanley, carries on a tradition of excellence in ministry. A graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and the founding pastor of North Point Community Church, Andy serves as keynote speaker for the Big Stuf Student Camps in Panama City, Florida, each summer. Stuart Hall serves as the director of training for XP3 Students and also leads DASH INC, an organization he founded in 2000 to develop spiritually influential students that engage culture. He has co-authored three books: The Seven Checkpoints: Seven Principles Every Teenager Needs to Know, MAX Q: Developing Students of Influence with Andy Stanley, and the leadership edition of Wired: For a Life of Worship with Louie Giglio. In his spare time, he serves as a community varsity girls basketball coach for the two-time defending state champion Buford Lady Wolves. summer.
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Twisting the Truth Bible Study Participant's Guide - Andy Stanley
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TWISTING THE TRUTH PARTICIPANT’S GUIDE
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CONTENTS
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction: Invisible World by Andy Stanley
Session 1: The Source of Deception
Session 2: All Is Not as It Seems
Session 3: Says Who?
Session 4: Facing Forward
Session 5: It’s Only Physical
Session 6: It’s No Mistake
Leader’s Guide
About The Publisher
Share Your Thoughts
INTRODUCTION
INVISIBLE WORLD
by Andy Stanley
You know how amazingly weird it is — moments of clarity followed suddenly by moments of insanity. We may know the right thing to do; yet we go out and do the exact opposite.
Why’s that? Is something wrong with us?
Or could it be there’s an invisible world impacting our visible world? Is there something we can’t see influencing everything we can see?
The Bible’s answer is that, yes, there’s an unseen world affecting our lives. It’s all around us. It impacts every single thing we do, everything about us. It affects all our relationships. It influences our thinking, our attitudes, our decision-making. It colors our perspectives on finances, on morality, and on how we do business. And it can actually be life-threatening — physically, emotionally, and relationally.
Hard to Accept
Many of us find this idea a bit difficult to accept. But the same Bible that tells us things we enjoy hearing — like Love one another
and God so loved the world
— that same Bible makes clear the existence of this invisible world.
Still, as we learn more about it and face up to it, we often tend to resist this concept. We’re like some people in the 1800s who had trouble accepting the amazing new scientific discoveries of an entire world of microorganisms living all around us, invisible to the naked eye yet affecting all of human life.
The invisible world taught in the Bible isn’t one you need a microscope to discover. All you need is a rearview mirror — a glance at your past. I can look