What's Happenin' @ Forward Mid-Week

Below is a brief summary of what talked about tonight. 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 dialogue 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:

Have you ever been to a concert? Maybe you had tickets
for great seats. Maybe you were in the nosebleeds. Either
way, you probably noticed that everyone had the same goal
in mind, to get as close as possible. There’s just something
about being near the band or near the artist that makes a
great concert even more fun. But there’s a limit, right? No
matter how good your tickets are, you can only get so close.
There’s a velvet rope you can’t cross, a hall you can’t walk
down, or a security guard you can’t stroll right past because
those areas are reserved for certain people...special people—
people with an all-access pass. Maybe you’ve felt the same
way when it comes to God. Sure, you come to church and
sing songs or listen, but there’s a limit to how close you can
get. It’s almost like there’s a velvet rope around certain parts
of our faith that tells us those parts are restricted to special
people, to church-staff people, or to super-spiritual people.
But what if that’s never what God intended? In this series
we’ll explore what the Resurrection of Jesus really meant—
for real people like us. And, we’ll discover that, because of
Easter, we have an all-access pass to Him and to the life He
has for us.

This Week's Recap:

Week #1 (04.19.2017)

Bottom Line: Jesus gives you all access to God.

What we talked about:

There’s nothing better than an all-access pass. Whether it’s a
backstage pass at a concert for your favorite band or a front
row seat at the championship game for your favorite team,
having all access makes a great experience even greater!
Without an all-access pass there’s a limit to how close you
can get—a hall you can’t walk down, a seat you can’t sit in,
a rope you can’t cross. In other words, there’s something
keeping you from truly getting up close and personal to the
action. And at some point, most of us have probably felt the
same way about God. Even though we show up at church,
pray the prayers, and sing the songs, we feel like there’s
something keeping us from getting as close to God as others
seem to be. It’s as if we’re experiencing God from the cheap
seats. But that’s not how God intended us to feel. In fact,
God went out of His way to make sure that everyone could
move past the barriers and get closer to Him. And as we’ll
see this week, when we take hold of the all-access pass God’s
offering us, there’s no longer anything holding us back from
experiencing the greatest possible thing—a relationship
with Him.