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    Bible Lessons for Youth Summer 2020 Leader: Community
    Bible Lessons for Youth Summer 2020 Leader: Community
    Bible Lessons for Youth Summer 2020 Leader: Community
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    Bible Lessons for Youth Summer 2020 Leader: Community

    By Julie Conrady, Tim Gossett, Jenny Youngman and Sally Hoelscher

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    This trust curriculum has been refreshed, while keeping everything you love about the resources. Bible Lessons for Youth is a comprehensive 6-year Bible-to-life curriculum that helps teens apply the Bible to their real-life. Its teacher-friendly format is built around a step-by-step sequence with thought-provoking activities designed to help youth understand Scripture and apply it to their individual experiences.

    Designed to make teaching Bible Lessons for Youth to your youth easy with each session broken up into small segments. The student book is reproduced as the center piece of each session in the leader guide and is surrounded by the minute-by-minute teaching plans printed in the margin. The instructions are provided for student book activities, discussion questions, illustrative games and short drama skits. Complete Scripture texts are printed in all books. (No need to pause while everyone hunts for the appropriate verse.) At anytime during the quarter you can refer back to the convenient Overview section found at the front of the guide and also take a moment to read the “Teaching Tools” article provided at the back of the guide. Don’t forget to check out the “Out and About” activity that will allow your students to take what they learn in Sunday school outside the classroom, enhancing their faith journey.

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    The Bible Lessons for Youth format of “Explore,” “Focus,” and “Connect” is an intentional learning approach to help teens FOCUS on the original context, EXPLORE how the passage speaks to their lives, and CONNECT with how to live out God’s Word in their daily lives and in the world.

    Key Verse
    Taken from the passage printed in the student book, this verse can be used to emphasize Scripture memorization in your class.

    Take-Away
    This is the basic point of the lesson and is summed up in a short sentence. It’s the big idea you want your teens to grasp from each week’s session.

    Bible Lesson
    For easy access, the Scripture passage your class or group will explore is taken from the Common English Bible, and are coordinated with the Uniform Lesson Series. Contains options for younger and older youth.

    Summer Theme: Creation (Genesis, Psalm 8, 104, 136, 148, Zephaniah, Romans)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCokesbury
    Release dateApr 21, 2020
    ISBN9781501877872
    Bible Lessons for Youth Summer 2020 Leader: Community
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    Julie Conrady

    Julie Conrady, writer of teacher articles, has written for Bible Lessons for Youth since 2006. She has taught all ages in churches and in schools, but especially likes working with youth. She currently serves as a Chaplain Intern at a local hospital and enjoys scrapbooking, reading, and playing videogames in her spare time. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma, with her husband Josh, dog MollyJane, and black cats Seuss and SamIAm.

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      Bible Lessons for Youth Summer 2020 Leader - Julie Conrady

      Unit 1

      New Creation

      Unit Overview

      The theme of new creation can take some time to unfold because first it requires us to unpack why something new was necessary. In this unit, the first Bible Lesson focuses on the commandments given to the Hebrew people. The next two lessons address the failures of God’s people to heed those commandments and the judgment they suffer as a result. Finally, in the last lesson, the redemption found in a new creation becomes clear through Hosea’s story. Youth will explore how to live in the midst of pain while hoping for a fresh start.

      1 Careful Keepers

      Key Verse: Keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him, because the LORD your God is bringing you to a wonderful land, a land with streams of water, springs, and wells that gush up in the valleys and on the hills. —Deuteronomy 8:6-7

      Take-Away: Christian disciples should listen to the teachings of Scripture and follow God’s commandments carefully.

      Bible Snapshot:

      This Bible Lesson is from Deuteronomy 8 and is part of a much longer passage in which Moses gives the Hebrew people their final instructions before crossing the Jordan River and entering the Promised Land. Emphasize the challenging passage because it is both instruction and a warning. As part of this lesson, students will consider the role of leadership and instruction in their lives as well as the role it plays in the church. They’ll also be invited to examine why memory is so vital to the lives of Christians as they navigate the world.

      2 Elijah Versus Baal’s Prophets

      Key Verse: All the people saw this and fell on their faces. ‘The LORD is the real God! The LORD is the real God!’ they exclaimed. —1 Kings 18:39

      Take-Away: Often we are tempted to follow others, but only God offers the power of salvation and the gift of real love.

      Bible Snapshot:

      This Bible Lesson is one of the most dramatic and cinematic stories in the Bible. In 1 Kings, we see the prophet Elijah go head to head with hundreds of Baal’s prophets to determine whose God is the most powerful. God’s power is on display and the fake gods of the false prophets are decimated. Students will ponder who we follow and the meaning of real power, and they will examine the imposters of our time and decide who is worthy of our ultimate trust. Finally, youth will hear the truth that only God has the power to provide us with salvation and eternal love.

      Originally First and Second Kings were one book. Along with Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and 1 and 2 Samuel, the books help us understand much of Israel’s early history.

      3 The Discovery of the Scroll

      Key Verse: The LORD must be furious with us because our ancestors failed to obey the words of this scroll and do everything written in it about us. —2 Kings 22:13b

      Take-Away: Even when we don’t mean to do so, we sometimes lose our way. When we realize this has happened, it’s important to turn back to God immediately.

      Bible Snapshot:

      In the years prior to the reign of King Josiah, the people had strayed a long way from God’s instructions provided by Moses. Then, during his reign, a scroll was discovered that likely contained a large portion of the Book of Deuteronomy. Josiah immediately repents for the wayward actions of his kingdom and institutes a number of reforms. Students will be challenged to think about the ways in which we both do and do not take Scripture seriously today and to imagine what would happen if, for the first time in generations, we discovered God’s Word anew. Teens will wrestle with what it means to do the right thing as both individuals and as part of a community.

      4 God, Though Jilted, Still Loves

      Key Verse: Yet the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said to them, ‘Children of the living God.’ —Hosea 1:10

      Take-Away: Even in the midst of pain, we still have hope when our lives are grounded in God.

      Bible Snapshot:

      The opening of the Book of Hosea isn’t exactly the stuff of inspirational speeches. It’s filled with infidelity, pain, and betrayal. Yet, as we continue through the text, we also discover a promise. Even in the midst of pain, there is still hope when we ground our lives in faith and love. Students will be challenged to dig into the cultural and historical background of this Scripture passage. They will learn about the symbolic importance of the name given to Hosea’s children, and they’ll consider what it means to follow a God who was often spurned by God’s people. Finally, they’ll look for the hope revealed in this painful story and be encouraged to reflect on the intersections of pain and hope in their personal lives and communities.

      Leader Links: The reflection questions provided at this site were used by John Wesley’s Holy Clubs: https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/everyday-disciples-john-wesleys-22-questions.

      Deuteronomy 8:12-14a reminds us that we must always be mindful that comfort can cause us to forget God’s commandments.

      Check out pages 62–63 for information about the Spiritual Disciplines.

      Session 1:

      Careful Keepers

      Engage

      To Follow or Not to Follow

      Scripture

      Deuteronomy 8:1-10 (Common English Bible)

      ¹ You must carefully perform all of the commandment that I am commanding you right now so you can live and multiply and enter and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your ancestors. ² Remember the long road on which the LORD your God led you during these forty years in the desert so he could humble you, testing you to find out what was in your heart: whether you would keep his commandments or not. ³ He humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you the manna that neither you nor your ancestors had ever experienced, so he could teach you that people don’t live on bread alone. No, they live based on whatever the LORD says. ⁴ During these forty years, your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t swell up. ⁵ Know then in your heart that the LORD your God has been disciplining you just as a father disciplines his children. ⁶ Keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him, ⁷ because the LORD your God is bringing you to a wonderful land, a land with streams of water, springs, and wells that gush up in the valleys and on the hills; ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land where you will eat food without any shortage—you won’t lack a thing there—a land where stone is hard as iron and where you will mine copper from the hills. ¹⁰ You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless the LORD your God in the wonderful land that he’s given you.

      Deuteronomy literally

      translates as second law

      in Hebrew, but it is not the

      second law given to the people.

      Instead, second law means

      that the law is being repeated or

      recited to the people.

      Key Verse

      Keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him, because the LORD your God is bringing you to a wonderful land, a land with streams of water, springs, and wells that gush up in the valleys and on the hills.

      —Deuteronomy 8:6-7

      Take-Away

      Christian disciples should listen to the teachings of Scripture and follow God’s commandments carefully.

      Bible Background

      •The opening verse of chapter 8 is key for all that follows and provides the chapter theme.

      •All of the commandment (verse 1) refers to the Ten Commandments, not a larger body of laws. The commandments are stated in chapter 5.

      •This chapter emphasizes the real danger of the Israelites’ forgetfulness. First, they may forget about how God cared for them while wandering in the wilderness. (God led, fed, and clothed them; verses 2-4.) Second, they may forget God’s commandments after living in a rich and bountiful land, focusing on their own accomplishments (verses 11-18).

      •Deuteronomy contains several verses similar to other parts of the book. For example, chapter 8 is quite similar to the message of Deuteronomy 4:1-40. Verse 4 is repeated in Deuteronomy 29:5 (and again in Nehemiah 9:21).

      •Those who wrote this section of Deuteronomy

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