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| "FOUR FAITH STORIES" by Carol Duerksen | ||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 107
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| MATERIALS AND ADVANCE PREPARATION: • Copies of the Winter 08/09 issue of With Magazine or the articles at the end of this session, one for each student. • If possible, create a “cozy coffee shop” atmosphere for this session with hot drinks, pillows, couches, areas to sit comfortably and read. • Journals for students to take home and keep • Pens • The following paragraphs on large poster board, one per poster. Place them in four different areas of the room. I have sinned against my mom and dad, been to parties, lied to many people, contradicted myself, been suicidal. I don’t read my Bible the way I should, and I’m not a virgin. Too much of my life I’ve lived as someone I wasn’t, and yet I still carried that title of being a “godly” person. (From “The Pieces of My Faith Puzzle”) On graduation night I received my first Bible. It sure looked good but I “knew” I was never going to read it. I had my opinions about God, which were agnostic at best, and the upcoming track and field state championships didn’t help me stay focused on God either. (From “Turned Around Completely”) My skin crawled as I watched bugs inching around the moldy boxes in Ann’s basement. My first reaction was to judge her for being such a poor housekeeper. Then I remembered what Darren said about how people who don’t have enough tend to hoard what they do have and can’t let go. (From “Walking with Jesus in a Wal-Mart World”) My heart beat hard in my chest as I gasped for air. I was running away from thieves in the mountains of El Salvador. They were shooting at us—my family and friends—and I thought maybe I would never see my mother or family again. (From “Hunted and Found”) Continued... |
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