Starting Up Your New Life with Jesus

Suggested activities before and after teaching the topic

Lesson Suggested Activity Suggested Application

1. Salvation (Change of Destination) One Verse Evangelism Altar call

List down the things that you need to

2. Repentance (Change of Direction) Paper Gospel
surrender

What areas in your life do you need to

3. Lordship (Change of Relationship) Me Without You (Maze)
make God in control of?

Write an open letter to those you want to

4. Forgiveness (Change of Heart) Change of Heart
forgive and ask forgiveness from

5. Lifestyle - The 4 Greatest Meetings Culture Fair Reward those who have been consistent

6. Devotional Life Guess the Purpose Check devotional next week

Write down your prayer requests / create

7.Your Active Life of Prayer Express Yourself
a dream book

8. Witnessing - Sharing Your New Life with Others 2 Truths, 1 Lie Share your testimony to the group

In which areas in your life do you need to

9. Life of Obedience (Surrender to God’s Will) Following Instructions
be obedient to God?

Be part of the Gospel community, exp

10. Life in The Church (Belongingness in The Church) Find where you belong

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Lesson 1: SALVATION (Change of Destination)

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Lesson 2: REPENTANCE (Change of Direction)

Objective​: To help the new believer understand that even when we have chosen other things and people before God, we can always change our
mind, ask for forgiveness just like the Prodigal Son and go back to the Father through Jesus Christ.

Materials​: Blank sheets of paper

Note: This is a classic way of presenting the Gospel to children, but we will contextualize it to young adults.

Instructions​:
1. Bring out a piece of paper.
> "Our life is like a blank sheet of paper..."

2. Write 'GOD' in the middle.

> "God is the center of our lives. We were all created by God, not a
product of the Big Bang Theory or Darwin's Theory (monkey)"

3. Fold the paper accordingly

a. Fold the paper so that the word "God" will be hidden inside
"However in life we desire many things as a professional that we forget
about God."
b. Fold the paper showing a graph going upward
> "We want to increase our value, position, and salary."
c. Fold to make it appear as a house
> "We work hard to earn a lot to buy properties, and build a home."
def. Fold the paper to make it appear as a plane
> "Some of us, millennials, want to travel the world..."
g. Cut the paper (or tear with your hands for narrative effect)
> "However in life, we fail - some people leave us and our goals don't
happen."
f. Fold out to show the Cross
> "But we can always find our way back to God, change our heart and
start a new life with Jesus."

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Lesson 3: LORDSHIP (Change of Relationship)

Objective​: To help the new believer understand that we need to make Jesus Christ our LORD
because he knows our beginning and end (start and finish) and He will lead us to the right way.

Materials ​:
1. Print out of the maze
2. Handkerchief (for blindfold)
3. Pen or marker

Instructions​:
1. Ask for a volunteer to join the activity
2. Show him the maze that s/he needs to complete
3. Introduce him/her to a guide
4. Warn him/her that there will be someone who will distract him/her

Connect​:
1. Whether the person wins or not, explain the importance of listening to the right voice

2. Explain that we cannot live our life on our own - we need Jesus as our LORD and Savior

3. There will be distractions along the way (the devil will try to steal, kill, and destroy), but if you
know the voice of the Shepherd you will be safe and know the right direction

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Lesson 4: FORGIVENESS (Change of Heart)

Objective​: To help the new believer understand that no matter what the condition of our heart is, God is able to restore it - we only need to ask for
and release forgiveness and experience a change of heart.

Materials​: 1 of each for every attendee

1. Blank sheets of paper
2. Heart-shaped cut-outs

Instructions​:
1. Distribute all blank sheets of paper to everyone
2. Let each one of them illustrate the condition of their heart
3. Ask everyone (or volunteers) to explain why they have described their heart
that way
4. At the end of the activity give each one of them a heart-shaped cut-out

Connect​:
● Whatever the condition of your heart, God is able to restore it - not by repairing
or patching it up together, but by giving you a new heart
● We experience pain from the people who hurt us, but as we forgive them and
surrender our hearts to God, He is able and willing to make it new.

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Lesson 5: LIFESTYLE - The 4 Greatest Meetings

Objective​: To be able to help the new believer understand that

starting up a new life for Jesus requires a change of culture and
lifestyle. CHINESE KOREAN
Materials​:
1. Smartphone with data connection
2. Pieces of paper for draw lots / post-it notes + marker (write
down different countries) GERMAN SPANISH
Instructions​:
1. Let individuals / groups pick a
country by drawing lots
2. Give them 5 minutes to research
online the translation of the
JAPANESE ARABIC
following in that country’s
language:
a. Number count (one, two,
three / uno, dos, tres)
b. “Hello” / “I love you” /
FRENCH AFRICAN
“Thank you”
3. Let the other person / group
guess what country you are
representing Sample

Language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Connect​: Chinese yi er san si wu liu qi ba jiu shi

● We are citizens of Heaven and ambassadors of Christ;

Japanese ichi ni san yon go roku nana hachi kyuu juu
therefore we should behave differently by developing a
different culture (language) and lifestyle.
● Learning a new language is difficult, just like developing a Spanish uno dos tres cuatro cinco seis siete ocho nueve diez

habit, but as the more practice it, the more you become used
to it. German eins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun zehn

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Lesson 6: Devotional Life

Objective​: To help the new believer understand his life’s purpose by knowing who he is and who his Creator is by reading the Bible

Material​: 1 random and uncommon item

Instructions​:
1. Divide the cell members to 2 groups
2. Show them the random item and let them take turns and think of ideas to use that particular item (i.e. pen can be used to scratch your back)
3. The team who fails to give an answer loses the game

Connect​:
● We were all created with one purpose - and if we don’t discover that, we will be confused and distracted with what other people have to say.
● The only way to discover your life’s purpose is to go back to the Creator and live according to His Word - the Bible our manual for living.

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Lesson 7: Your Active Life of Prayer

Objective:​ To help the new believer understand that prayer is not a

religious activity, but simply expressing yourself to God and growing in
your intimacy with Him
HAPPY DELIGHTED
Materials​: Draw lots with various expressions

Instructions​:
1. Let individuals / groups pick an expression by drawing lots SAD DISAPPOINTED
2. Let them enact the expression using their facial expression
and other minimal non-verbal cues
3. Let the other person / group guess what that expression is.
CONSTIPATED IRRITATED
Connect​:
1. Prayer should be honest, authentic, sincere and real - this is
what makes Christianity a personal relationship with Christ, not
a religion. IN LOVE DROWSY
2. The best prayers are not the ones with hifalutin or flowery
words, but the most honest and heartfelt ones.

OVERWHELMED SCARED

SURPRISED AWESTRUCK

APOLOGETIC HUMBLE

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Lesson 8: Witnessing - Sharing your new life with others

Objective​: To help the new believer share his/her life to others and his/her relationship with Jesus changed him/her.

Materials​: None

Instructions​:
1. Play 2 truths, 1 lie - have everyone share 3 statements (1 should be a lie) and let the others guess which one is the lie

Connect
● We share the truth whenever we witness to others.

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Lesson 9: Life of Obedience: Surrender to God’s will
Objective:​ To help the new believer understand the value of obedience
Follow Directions:
1) Read everything carefully before doing anything.
2) Put your name in the upper right-hand corner of this page.
3) Circle the word NAME in sentence two.
4) Draw five small squares in the upper left-hand corner.
5) Put an “X” in each square.
6) Put a circle around each square.
7) Sign your name under the title of this paper.
8.) After the title write, “yes, yes, yes.”
9) Put a circle completely around sentence number seven.
10) Put an “X” in the lower left corner of this paper.
11) Draw a triangle around the “X” you just put down.
12) On the back of this paper, multiply 703 by 66.
13) Draw a rectangle around the word “corner” in sentence four.
14) Loudly call out your first name when you get this far along.
15) If you have followed directions carefully to this point, call out, “I
have.”
16) On the reverse side of this paper, add 8950 and 9305.
17) Put a circle around your answer and put a square around the
circle.
18) Punch three small holes in the top of this paper with your pencil
point.
19) If you are the first person to reach this point, LOUDLY, call out, I
AM THE FIRST PERSON TO REACH THIS POINT, AND I AM THE
LEADER IN FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS.”
21) Underline all even numbers on the left side of this paper.
Loudly call out, “I AM NEARLY FINISHED. I HAVE FOLLOWED
DIRECTIONS.”
22) Now that you have finished reading everything, do sentences 1
and 2! Keep busy so that others will continue to read without
disturbance from you. Do not make any sign to give a clue to your
having completed the assigned task.
The Catch: The person should read until #22 to obey the correct
directions. After the game, the facilitator will give real situations that
will connect to the topic.
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Lesson 10: Life in the Church (Belongingness in the Church)

Objective​: To help the new believer understand that God designed us to be part of a community where we belong to.

Materials​:
1. Item that represents yourself
2. Box or paper bag where you can hide the items

Instructions​:
1. Let everyone put their item inside the box or paper bag.
2. Bring everything out and let them cluster the items according to function, color, shape, etc
3. Let everyone guess and reveal who owns that item

Connect​:
1. We all belong to God and there’s a community that we should be part of.
2. God designed us to be social beings. Knowing him as our creator leads to knowing our right community.

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