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HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Type: text/htmlLast-Modified: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:05:29 GMTAccept-Ranges: bytesETag: 9a7463de69fd51:0Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0X-Powered-By: ASP.NETX-Powered-By-Plesk: PleskWinDate: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:26:03 GMTContent-Length: 10664 html>head>META NAMEdescription CONTENTA concerned Christian critiques Focus on the Familys The Truth Project, a DVD-based small group curriculum designed to communicate the Christian worldview.> META NAMEkeywords CONTENTthe truth project criticism, truth project criticism, truth project critique, truth project review, critique, review, criticism, opposing views, determinism, creationism, evolution, evolutionism, darwinism, creation, absolute morality, relativism, free will, sovereignty, sovereign, freedom, libertarianism, calvinism, reformed, apologetics, theology, Focus on the Family, The Truth Project, Christian worldview, DVD, Del Tackett, home study, get involved, culture in focus, worldview inventory, survey, Ravi Zacharias, truth, biblical worldview, absolute truth, small group training, small group curriculum, Christian worldview small group, DVD small group curriculum, Christian worldview conference, Christian conferences>style typetext/css>html { overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; } body { font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;background-color:#000; }table, tr, td { font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; }table#outlined { border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #C3DD91; border-spacing: 0px;}td#outlined{ border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-spacing: 0px;}form { display:inline; }img { vertical-align:middle; border:0px }a:link, a:visited, a:active { text-decoration: underline; color: #000 }a:hover { color: #444; text-decoration:underline } /style>/head>title>The Truth Problem/title>body>center>BR>table idoutlined>tr>td idoutlined width800 height 142 background title.jpg>/td>/tr>/table>BR>table>tr>td valigntop>table idoutlined cellpadding 20>tr>td idoutlined width537 background mainbar.jpg valigntop>center>span stylefont-size:150%;>b>Introduction/b>BR>A Concerned ChristianBR>/span>/center>BR>BR>BR>center>img src div2.gif>/center>BR>div stylebackground-color: white; padding: 1em; margin:1em>I am trying my best to continually improve and refine this site based on the feedback I receive from other Christians, especially those involved in group leadership. Please see the a href updates.html>site updates/a> section for more information./div>p>Focus on the Familys The Truth Project is a DVD series taught by Dr. Del Tackett of the Focus on the Family Institute. The series is pitched to churches throughout the nation and presented through small groups led by facilitators, folks officially trained at Focus on the Family Regional Training Conferences./p>p>The program is a slick, media-rich presentation of the Christian worldview according to Dr. Tackett and others at Focus on the Family, including their views on philosophy, science, and sociology. It pushes a strong bifurcation between the true worldview and the false worldviews, arguing both that there is a crisp division between the two and that the program represents the former side impeccably. It is claimed that the views of Dr. Tackett and his associates represent reality, while those who disagree subscribe to pernicious lies./p>p>This is the teaser trailer for The Truth Project:/p>CENTER>p>object width445 height364>param namemovie valuehttp://www.youtube.com/v/-nUXTLy_M-w&hlen&fs1&rel0&color10x3a3a3a&color20x999999&border1>/param>param nameallowFullScreen valuetrue>/param>param nameallowscriptaccess valuealways>/param>embed srchttp://www.youtube.com/v/-nUXTLy_M-w&hlen&fs1&rel0&color10x3a3a3a&color20x999999&border1 typeapplication/x-shockwave-flash allowscriptaccessalways allowfullscreentrue width445 height364>/embed>/object>/p>/CENTER>p>Looks pretty cool, right? Many participants Ive talked to have emerged from the series excited and b>feeling/b> educated./p>Unfortunately, The Truth Project is problematic in two critical ways.p>First, it is problematic with regard to intrachristian issues. Several of the philosophies and doctrines promoted by The Truth Project -- at the expense of others -- are in alignment with b>some/b> Christian traditions. But the program packages them in language that suggests that these philosophies and doctrines are universally accepted as essential Christianity. This overlooks the fact that other legitimate Christian traditions hold b>different/b> positions, inhibiting open and critical examination of these disputed issues. It is an attempt at Christian unity by way of b>unjust/b> exclusion (1 Cor 3:4-10)./p>p>Second, it is problematic with regard to factual information. In the series, many different beliefs about science, doctrine and philosophy are attacked. Unfortunately, they are also misrepresented; the attacks are upon straw men. Opposing views should always be fairly and accurately represented, not only because it is wrong to give false testimony (Exod 20:16), but also because the believers faith will suffer when he later discovers the b>actual/b> truth (Matt 18:6)./p>center>img src div3.gif>/center>BR>span stylefont-size:120%;>b>Site Purpose/b>/p>/span>p>Last year I participated in a Truth Project group and emerged discouraged. Dr. Tackett made many false claims about many things, all in the name of absolute truth. And the bifurcative nature of the program made these lies even more frustrating. My Christian brethren were being misled, and I subsequently saw more and more churches incorporate The Truth Project into their ministries./p>p>I built this web site with a Christ-centered, truth-centered intent. It is my first attempt at reaching churches, pastors and laypeople whose foundation for their faith may have been inadvertently weakened by The Truth Project. In propagating untruths, Dr. Tackett and Focus on the Family, in this case, have provided Christians with foundations of sand, and Im genuinely worried about its effects on American Christianity in particular./p>p>Now, dont get me wrong -- b>much/b> of The Truth Project is moderately valuable for Christians. But there are many factual blunders taught in the program as well, and those blunders are used as premises for later claims, devaluing them. Those who susbcribe to b>all/b> of the programs claims will find themselves with a worldview based b>partially/b> on false teachings./p>p>Like Dr. Tackett, I do not have a degree in any of theology, philosophy, natural science, etc. Dr. Tacketts degree is in management, and mine is in software engineering. But even as someone who is limited to personal study and conference with folks more knowledgeable than I am, I feel that this DVD series is demonstrably misleading in many of the points it makes.center>img src div1.gif>/center>BR>span stylefont-size:120%;>b>Site Overview/b>/p>/span>p>This site contains five sections./p>p>Two are b>Fact Check/b> sections. In them, I rebut several false claims made by Dr. Tackett in the program. Although there are non sequiturs and bad implications in several of the Tours, most of the demonstrably untrue teachings can be found in Tours 2 and 5./p>p>These two sections should be enough to sufficiently concern those interested in The Truth Project. Even if you come to the same conclusions as Dr. Tackett in the end, you should agree that the deceptive means by which he arrives at those conclusions are irresponsible and dangerous./p>p>The other three sections are essays that confront some of the overarching, worldview-defining cases made by the program. These b>Other Christian Viewpoints/b> sections are less cut-and-dry than the Fact Check sections; the intent is merely to cogently present some legitimate Christian viewpoints that Dr. Tackett brazenly calls anti-Christian./p>p>I pray that, after reading the material on this site, youll agree that The Truth Project both is unreliable in much of the information it presents and needlessly attacks some genuinely Christian views, and is thus not a good fit for your church or small group./p>p>If, however, your church or small group is already invested in the series, you might consider compiling lists of errata so that group leaders can correct the programs mistakes in a cool and casual manner./p>p>You can leave feedback at my e-mail account for this site:/p>center>p>TheTruthProblem @ gmail.com/p>/center>p>Im interested both in constructive criticism and in encouragement!/p>center>img src div2.gif>/center>BR>BR>BR>span stylefont-size:80%;>p>(c) 2009 The Truth Problem./p>/span>/td>/tr>/table>/td>td width 12>/td>td valigntop>table idoutlined cellpadding 20>tr>td idoutlined width159 background sidebar.jpg valigntop>center>span stylefont-size:110%;>A HREF index.html>Introduction/A>BR>BR>A HREF updates.html>Site Updates/A>BR>BR>-BR>BR>b>The Problems/b>BR>BR>A HREF tour2factcheck.html>Philosophy Fact Check/A>BR>BR>A HREF tour5factcheck.html>Science Fact Check/A>BR>BR>-BR>BR>b>Other Christian Viewpoints/b>BR>BR>A HREF determinism.html>Freedom & Sovereignty/A>BR>BR>A HREF morality.html>Morality & Ethics/A>BR>BR>A HREF evolution.html>Creation & Evolution/A>BR>span stylefont-size:70%;>and/span>BR>A HREF figurative.html>The Hidden Consensus/A>BR>BR>-BR>BR>b>Christians React/b>BR>BR>A HREF yourfeedback.html>Your Feedback/A>BR>BR>A HREF yourfactchecks.html>Your Fact Checks/A>BR>BR>A HREF resources.html>Off-Site Resources/A>BR>BR>/span>/center>/td>/tr>/table>/td>/tr>/table>/center>script typetext/javascript>var gaJsHost ((https: document.location.protocol) ? https://ssl. : http://www.);document.write(unescape(%3Cscript src + gaJsHost + google-analytics.com/ga.js typetext/javascript%3E%3C/script%3E));/script>script typetext/javascript>try{var pageTracker _gat._getTracker(UA-8686500-1);pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}/script>/body>/html>
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