Lesson Loop 9.8.11

This week in our Student Ministry:

THIRD PLACE: "Galatians - applying the gospel"
We took some time to really apply the gospel to our unique life situations. Students wrote on a 3x5 card what their biggest struggle/temptation/difficulty is right now (without their name), and then they were redistributed for students to pray for the person whom the card represented. The students also had to spend some time thinking of how Christ's life, death and resurrection applied to this situation.

Then when we came back together I shared from my heart how God has been applying the truths of the gospel to my heart over the last 6 months with Preslie's situation.

My prayer is that we begin to see how the gospel ties into EVERYTHING we do and EVERY challenge we face.




LUCID: "Worship: Inside and Out"
This was our final week in our series on Worship. This was a time to really emphasize what we have been talking  - that worship is our whole lives, and not just the time on Sundays and Wednesdays when we come together in the church building. In fact, we have no right praising God with our lips when we refuse to worship Him with our lives during the week.
Our text was Psalm 15, and we saw 10 ways that someone worships God in that text.

1. walks blamelessly


2. does what is right


3. speaks truth in his heart


4. does not slander with his tongue


5. does no evil to his neighbor


6. casts no slur on his fellowman


7. despises a vile man


8. honors those who fear the Lord


9. keeps his oath (even when it hurts)


10. lends his money without interest

Lesson Loop 3.31.11

This week in our Student Ministry:

THIRD PLACE: "We're in this together" (Galatians 6)
We started with a neat team-building game called electric fence, where the students had to help each other over the rope as it was raised higher and higher. It was neat to see certain students rise into leadership and see them work together. This tied into our lesson which was about how we need each other. We must be united as the body of Christ.

Modern society places way more emphasis on technology and knowledge than they do on relying on one another. If we are not careful this can have a negative influence on the body of Christ as well, as we are all more prone to "go it alone" than we are to work together, stay accountable and help others.

We specifically highlighted how Galatians calls us to help one another as we each struggle with sin. We need accountability, and we need to have enough guts to obey God's Word and ask our friends the tough questions about how they are doing. We also need to do this humbly and gently as the passage says, lest we come across self-righteous or we fall into sin ourselves.

The passage calls us back to self-examination, since we often find it easier to point others faults out than recognize our own sin.

Students left with the challenge to find one close friend they can confess their biggest struggle to and ask for prayer.

LUCID: "Walk Humbly With Your God"

We focused on the 3rd part of Micah 6:8 and how this is the worship that God wants from us.

We considered how we can walk humbly by examining Christ's example in Philippians 2. Here are a couple things we pointed out:

1. True humility comes when we are united with Christ, changed by His love, and filled with the Spirit.


2. We discussed how unbelievers can be humble to a certain degree, but they are not capable of the deep humility that Philippians 2 calls us to. In fact, none of us can have Philippians 2 humility without God renewing our mind and giving us the mind of Christ. 


3. In order to have a mind renewed with the humility of Jesus we need to spend time with Him!


4. Jesus showed humility in this way: 

• had it all but made himself nothing


• lived as a humble servant


• died a criminal's death for me

Students left with the challenge to think about the person whom it is most difficult to act humbly towards.