Below is a brief summary of what talked about this week. Most of the time we teach through a series for several weeks at a time that way students that miss can get caught back up quickly, and so we can dissect a topic more fully than just a one night deal. Use the overview and questions for both you and your teen to answer and have a dialog that continues outside the church walls and into your homes. Use this opportunity to see what God is teaching your student and also allow your student to see what God is teaching/taught you.
Current Series:
Kairos
is about time. Not the tick-tock kind of time we are used to living in.
Kairos is the beautiful kind of time where God breaks in and changes
everything. These are moments when something special happens. They are
moments that interrupt our status quo. They are moments when the
trajectory of our journeys change forever.
When God breaks in, we must take the change He creates — whatever it may be. We must accept both the work of Christ and the way of Christ. We must trust in what God is doing instead of trying to do it ourselves. And then we must step out in faith and believe that God’s goodness will come in time.
In this series, we will set aside tick-tock time to engage God intentionally and expect him to break into our lives in timeless ways. We’ll be inspired and disturbed. We’ll be encouraged and challenged. We’ll be loved and changed. The moment is upon us. Don’t you think it’s about time?
When God breaks in, we must take the change He creates — whatever it may be. We must accept both the work of Christ and the way of Christ. We must trust in what God is doing instead of trying to do it ourselves. And then we must step out in faith and believe that God’s goodness will come in time.
In this series, we will set aside tick-tock time to engage God intentionally and expect him to break into our lives in timeless ways. We’ll be inspired and disturbed. We’ll be encouraged and challenged. We’ll be loved and changed. The moment is upon us. Don’t you think it’s about time?
This Week's Recap:
Week # 3 (02.24.2016): TimeWarp
Bottom Line: Do More by Doing Less
The fruit we bear as Christians — things like giving and evangelism and spiritual
growth and service – show that we are God’s disciples. But Jesus breaks into our lives to tell us that we don’t bear fruit by doing more and more. Instead, we actually do more by doing less and remaining in Christ.
This is shocking for many of us, because so many of us fall into the trap of doing well. We want to be popular, and so we do more at school to make it into the in-crowd, even if we have to make fun of or tell lies about others to do so. We want to be a star, and so we do more to try to get the spotlight on ourselves by being a class clown, or being in every school play. We want to be successful, and so we do more in terms of schoolwork or athletics or our jobs or our clubs to build the best resume possible.
Intentional Interaction:
Have an honest dialogue with your teen to see if they feel they are spread too thin. Work together on ways to overcome this.
