Lesson Loop 3.31.11

This week in our Student Ministry:

THIRD PLACE: “We’re in this together” (Galatians 6)
We started with a neat team-building game called electric fence, where the students had to help each other over the rope as it was raised higher and higher. It was neat to see certain students rise into leadership and see them work together. This tied into our lesson which was about how we need each other. We must be united as the body of Christ.

Modern society places way more emphasis on technology and knowledge than they do on relying on one another. If we are not careful this can have a negative influence on the body of Christ as well, as we are all more prone to “go it alone” than we are to work together, stay accountable and help others.

We specifically highlighted how Galatians calls us to help one another as we each struggle with sin. We need accountability, and we need to have enough guts to obey God’s Word and ask our friends the tough questions about how they are doing. We also need to do this humbly and gently as the passage says, lest we come across self-righteous or we fall into sin ourselves.

The passage calls us back to self-examination, since we often find it easier to point others faults out than recognize our own sin.

Students left with the challenge to find one close friend they can confess their biggest struggle to and ask for prayer.

LUCID: “Walk Humbly With Your God”

We focused on the 3rd part of Micah 6:8 and how this is the worship that God wants from us.

We considered how we can walk humbly by examining Christ’s example in Philippians 2. Here are a couple things we pointed out:

1. True humility comes when we are united with Christ, changed by His love, and filled with the Spirit.
2. We discussed how unbelievers can be humble to a certain degree, but they are not capable of the deep humility that Philippians 2 calls us to. In fact, none of us can have Philippians 2 humility without God renewing our mind and giving us the mind of Christ. 
3. In order to have a mind renewed with the humility of Jesus we need to spend time with Him!
4. Jesus showed humility in this way: 

• had it all but made himself nothing
• lived as a humble servant
• died a criminal’s death for me

Students left with the challenge to think about the person whom it is most difficult to act humbly towards.

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