Lesson Loop

Here is a brief summary of the teaching this past week in our Student Ministry:

Third Place: Genesis 2:4-7, 15-25 ("Created for Relationship")

We continued our Genesis study and saw how God has wired us for relationship:

1) We are incomplete by ourselves
*God said about everything He created "It is very good". Yet when it came to man being alone without companionship, God said "it is not good".

2) God's design is 1 man + 1 woman = 1 flesh
*The best illustration of how we are wired for relationship is marriage

3) God also designs singleness
*God ordains singleness for every person...at least for a time period. We must glorify God during that time by using the gifts He has given us with the extra time we have as a single individual.

4) God designed sex

*Sex is a beautiful thing as designed by God, but man has severely warped it.





LUCID: Core Truth - "God's Mercy" (Romans 9)


By God's mercy, He has called some to be in His family:

1) You Don't get "in" by being born in.

*Just as the Jews were not "Abraham's children" just because they were Jewish, so we are not "God's children" just because we are born into a Christian family2) You get "in" by God's mercy

*God chose us to be His children  because of His precious mercy, not because we are cool or desirable. We must praise Him for this mercy!

3) We seek to bring others "in"

*We cannot be content to be in God's family alone. We must strive to bring others in just like Paul did.