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3 Biblical Concepts

What is Family Youth ministry?

What are the To Family Youth

Ministry?

Challenges

ChallengesWe can beSatanUnderstanding the reason for change.Understanding who the youth are.PBL Challenges:

Spiritual DisciplinesRelationships Concept of self

Change culture

What is culture?Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html

divine revelation.

What is culture?Symbols

Heroes

Rituals

Values Practices

Symbols

Heroes

Rituals

Values Practices

Spiritual Battle

Genesis 3:4 The serpent said to YOUR NAME HERE, "You surely will not die!

“It’s not that big a deal!”

ValuesGalatians 5:22-23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

ValuesColossians 3:12-15So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; (13) bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. (14) Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. (15) Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.

Rituals1Thessalonians 5:26Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

Rituals1Peter 3:21Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

RitualsHebrews 10:25not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

RitualsJohn 4:23-24"But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. (24) God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

HeroesDanielDavidChristPaulJerry & Shirley HopkinsJohnny & Betty DavisBill & Inell IngramDan & Judie Jenkins

SymbolsExodus 12:26-27"And when your children say to you, 'What does this rite mean to you?' (27) you shall say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.'" And the people bowed low and worshiped.

SymbolsJoshua 4:6-7"Let this be a sign among you, so that when your children ask later, saying, 'What do these stones mean to you?' (7) then you shall say to them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.' So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever."

Symbols1 Corinthians 11:24-25and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me." (25) In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Colossians 3:10-11and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him-- (11) a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.

Hebrews 11:13-16All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. (14) For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. (15) And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. (16) But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.