RADIANT YOUTH HOME GROUP 2 SUNDAY10/8/17 – 6PM

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Group 2 Sunday10/8/17 – 6PM

RADIATE – RESHAPE – REPRESENT PASTOR CHRISTIAN CHAPMAN BY: DR. TOM BARTLETT

WELCOMEAdult leader: (10-15 minutes)

Let everyone get comfortable in a seat and then welcome each one. Use these questions to help teens feel relaxed and able to share and to connect.

QUESTION – If you were the lead role of a movie, 1. What kind of movie would it be, (action/adventure, drama, documentary, romance?) 2. Who else in this room would co-star with you and what would their role be?

QUESTION – What’s the most valuable thing you own and why?

To the group: We’re so glad you’re here for our second Radiant Youth

Home Group. Your leaders are here for you. We want you to know that along with your parents, there are other adults who truly love you!

Announcements

NEXT SUNDAY - Youth ministry teams – worship, drama, and sports, (every first and third Sunday) at 5PM at the church.

Nov. 5 Youth led worship service

Next Home Group – October 22

Game night – October 15.

Christmas In BerewickAn original script by Pastor Tom Bartlett with

fully orchestrated music by Rick Balentine of Balentine Music Inc. will be presented on December 8th & 9th as a dinner theater with general seating, and on Sunday December 10th at both 9 and 11 am services. Auditions for cast and crew are now taking place. Please email pastor Tom at tom@radiantchurchcharlotte.org if interested.

Teacher: (10-12 minutes)

Last summer, a 15-year-old freshman saved his money and bought a remote-control airplane kit, which

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was very expensive. It required him to build it by carefully placing and gluing in hundreds of pieces of the plane. After he completed the assembly of this large-scale plane, (about 3 ft. wing-span), he spent weeks customizing it with paint and adjusting all the moving parts. He worked on this plane every night and weekend for weeks until he finally finished it.

All that was left to do was to take it out and see if it would actually fly, but to do that, he’d have to put it in the air. That made him nervous so he thought about it for a while until he made a decision. You see, if it went up, it could go down and with all the work invested he had to think it through.

QUESTION: What do you think he decided to do?

He took the plane down to a local park and decided to put it to the test. He walked down to an open area, and then gently put the plane on the green grass even though there was a slight breeze going at the time.

He started the engine and to his amazement the plane took off and not only flew but it looked like the real thing, a regular plane in the sky. It bobbed up and down and when the wind gently hit it, it rocked back and forth a little. He was so excited.

The plane was close to him and under his control for quite some time when all of the sudden the wind kicked up and took the plane away, too far from his radio control. In panic mode, he followed as fast and as far as he could, but eventually the plane was carried out into the mountains beyond his sight.

QUESTION: What do you think he was feeling?

This kid was so upset he began to really get low. He had put so much effort into that plane not to mention all the time it took him to save the money to buy it.

For weeks, he was sad and wished he could have his plane back. Then one day as he was in his little town he passed by the window of a hobby shop and saw his plane on display in the front window; for sale.

He quickly went inside and told the man that the plane in the window was actually his, that he had assembled it and painted it. The man said, “Well I don’t know about that. All I know is I paid for that plane and now it’s for sale.” The student asked, “How much?” The man told him the price, it was a lot. The boy ran home grabbed all of his savings, sold his bike to a friend and came back to the hobby shop with just enough money. He walked in and paid for his plane, the one he made and lost.

As he held it in his hands again, he said these words, “I made you, and I lost you, but now I have bought you back and you’re mine again.”

QUESTION: What was more important to this boy, losing his savings or getting his plane back? Why?

The story is similar to what God has done for us. He made us as the Bible teaches and when we sinned and we were lost, we went away from God. God bought us back at great cost with his most valued possession, His Son Jesus. Now we can belong to Him forever.

The Bible calls the “Buying back” to “Redeem”.

Ephesians 1:7 (ESV) “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.”

Galatians 3:13 (ESV) “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.”

Jesus did not die for His own sins, He died for the sins of others. His death was the payment to “Buy us back” to “Redeem” us from the curse of sin.

QUESTION: What are the different ways people can go to heaven?

(Note: Let the teens take a crack. Actually, there’s

only one way to God, the redemption through forgiveness that Jesus brings).

QUESTION: If Jesus is the only way to God by His redemption for us, why do so many people try and work their way to heaven hoping good deeds will get them there?

Lesson 1 – God made you and loves you. He wants you to be His.

1 John 3:1 (ESV) “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.”

Lesson 2 – There’s 0nly one way to God – it’s through Jesus payment.

Acts 4:12 (ESV) “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Breakout Groups

Take time to get re-acquainted with your students and ask questions about family, school, interests. Then begin with these questions knowing it will take time before they really open up. Remind them of the confidentiality except in cases of personal harm.

In the story, we heard about the plane that was redeemed by the person who made it. We also saw how that this was much like what God has done for us by buying us back with Jesus’ death for us.

Because Jesus gave Himself for us and bought us, the Bible says that we should live our lives to glorify God since He owns us.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV) “. . . do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

Question: What do you think it means when it says we are the “temple of the Holy Spirit?”

(Hint: The “temple” in the Old Testament is where God would meet with man. Since God lives in all believers now, by His Spirit within us, He is now with us at all times.)Ephesians 5:15-17 (ESV) “Look carefully then how you walk, (literally, how you live) not as unwise but

as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

Question: Since God is with us at all times, how should that affect our choices? (What about where we go, what we do, and who we do it with?)As one of your leaders, I’m deeply committed to seeing you not make the same mistakes that hurt so many people as they get older. If you will see yourself as a person that has God with them at all times, it will do at least three things for you.

1. You’ll know that you’re never alone.

2. You will make decisions that you know honor God.

3. You will save yourself from a lot of hurt.

QUESTION: Will you commit to see yourself as someone who has God in them and with them at all times? If so, pray right now and tell God that.

Group Prayer Time

Have each person say the name of another person they know who needs prayer, The person doesn’t have to be present. Have them go around the room with a prayer like so:

Leader: God thank you for your encouragement and strength for each of us, would you please bless . . . (Go back aroound the room and let each person say the name again of the person they mentioned that needed prayer.Leader: (after all teens) In Jesus name A-men.

Taking It Home

This week, would you please commit to:

1. Pray for your friend you mentioned each day this week.

2. Read Ephesians 5:15-21 and think about how a person lives who has God with them at all times.