Act 19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.

2. Act 19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds. • Act 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. • Act 19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

3. Act 19:23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. • Act 19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; • Act 19:25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.

4. Act 19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

5. Act 19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

6. Witnessing to Wiccans

7. What is Wicca? • 1 of over 80 pagan religions classified as the “Occult.”

8. When Did It Start? • Gerald B. Gardner (1884-1964)

9. What Do Wiccans Believe? • Wiccans worship the Great Mother Goddess and her partner the Horned God (Pan).

10. Who is the Great Mother Goddess? • She is the female aspect of The All and has many names, including Diana, Isis, and Demeter.

11. Who is Pan? • Pan is the Greek God of the wild, the inspirer of panic. He is half-human and half-goat, and His name simply means "All"

12. Wiccan Moral Code • Wiccan Rede: If it harms none, do what you will.

13. Symbols

14. Regular Rituals • Prayer, casting a circle, Drawing Down the Moon, reciting spells, dancing, singing, sharing cakes and wine or beer.

15. Drawing Down The Moon • A coven's High Priestess enters a trance and requests that the Goddess or Triple Goddess, symbolized by the moon, enter her body and speak through her.

16. Casting a Circle • Creating a magic circle is known as casting a circle

17. Casting Spells • Unlike Satanist Witchcraft Wicca forbids harmful or manipulative spells. • Wiccans believe that curses rebound threefold back onto the one working them.

18. How Does A Coven Work?

19. Major Figures Behind Wicca • Sybil Leek • Fred Adams • Donna Cole • Ed Fitch • Selena Fox (Church of Circle Wicca)

20. How To Witness to Wiccans • Pray • Be Respectful • Ask Questions • Don’t Call Them Cultists • Don’t Call Them Satanists • Don’t Emphasize A Male Dominated Church and Rules

21. Scriptural Basis • For rebellion isas the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness isas iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. (1Sa 15:23 KJVR)

22. Scriptural Basis • Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (Joh 14:6 KJVR)

23. Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. • Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. • Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: