Lesson Loop

This is what happened during our midweek student gatherings:

Third Place: Genesis 6-9 ("Noah and the Bow")

We studied the Flood account, and considered one question - Is God Just or Cruel?

The Scriptures teach that God is just, and the Flood account reinforces this:

1) God's Reaction was grief, not anger
It broke our God's heart that His creation rebelled. It pained Him to destroy that which He had formed. But He had to.

2) God's Provision was the Covenant
There is always a remnant, and in this case it was Noah and his family. He continued His plan of redemption through them

3) 2 Peter also teaches us that:

*God created all things with His Words
*God recreated all things through the Flood
*God will one day recreate the earth with His words at the end of time.
*God is still patient and He loves us (He is not willing that any should perish)

Basically, God is the Potter and we are the clay. He can do whatever He wants - yet that doesn't make Him arrogant or manipulative - no, not when we consider His great Sacrifice when He gave up His only Son for our sins. We deserve hell, and yet we have been given so much through Christ!

LUCID: Growth Groups


This week was a week for MS growth groups, so all the teens met with their respective leader!