lesson loop 6.20.10

This past week in our Student Ministry:

THIRD PLACE: "Legendary Faith - Joseph "

We have been going through Old Testament character sketches each week now, and we start off each night with some trivia from the character the week before.

This week we focused on Joseph, and we broke up into small groups where each group studied a particular aspect of Joseph's life. Then when we came back together we looked at Joseph's mention in the "Hall of Faith" of Hebrews 11:
"By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones."

Strange what God decided to include about Joseph's faith... or is it?

We looked at how Joseph was so confident in God's plan of redemption for Israel, and how he knew so assuredly that God would bring them out of the land of Egypt and into the Promised land that he demanded his descendants carry his bones out and bury them in that land. Joseph's faith was rooted in all that had been promised to his forefathers, just as our faith is bolstered by the great storyline that has been passed down to us through the Scriptures.

LUCID: "Connect"

We continue to look at who we are as humans, and how God created us. We have been made in the image of God and because of that we are designed for relationships. We first considered how important relationships are to God and how the first relationship in the Bible is not Adam and Eve but between the Godhead.

Then we talked aboutwhat we can do to improve our relationship with God and with those around us.