Session Three: Big Team (May 6, 2012)

Who has had the most influence in your life? Your mom? Your dad? A coach? A camp counselor? There are all kinds of people that play a part in our lives, in our stories. And some of these people have played a part in how you see God. In fact, God has used some of those relationships to grow your faith. We call these relationships providential because they are about having the right people in your life at just the right time.

Session Three Parent Cue: Who are the people in your life who have had a direct impact on your relationship with God? In what way did these people influence, guide or encourage you?

Session Two: Big Life (April 22, 2012)

You can know a lot. Maybe you know the stats of every football
player in the NFL. Maybe you know the cheat codes to hundreds of games. Maybe
you know every Scripture in the New Testament. But unless you do something with
what you know, then what you know isn’t enough. Especially when it comes to our
faith. God’s truth was meant to be put into action. It was meant to affect our
lives, our relationships. And when we begin to live out the truths we know,
something happens to us our faith. It begins to grow.

Session Two Parent Cue:
What is one truth that you know from the Bible that you can commit to live out
this week? Follow up with each other to see how that’s going.

GROW UP: Series Overview

Do your students ever wish they could just grow up? Maybe they yearn for the day they will get their driver’s licenses. Or graduate from high school. Or go away to college. They don’t really want to be kids anymore. They want to be seen as adults. They want to feel like they’ve moved on, grown up. We all know how that happens physically, but what about spiritually? How do we know we’re growing in your faith? How do we know that you’re moving forward in that area of our lives? The good news is that God is just as passionate about growing our faith as we are. And there are five ways He will use to do that—some involving things that we probably already know, and other ways that we may have never thought about before.

Session One: Big Faith (April 15, 2012)
Your faith in God matters to God. In fact, God is most honored through your living, active, death-defying, out-of-the-box faith. That being the case, He’s committed to growing it. Big. Imagine how differently you would respond to difficulties, temptations, and even good things if you knew with certainty that God was in all of it and was planning to leverage it for good. But in order for all of that to happen, there’s one thing it all hinges on—your trust.

Session One Parent Cue: What area of your life are you most reluctant to trust God? Why?

Session Two (April 8, 2012)

If the cross is where we come to die, then how do we live? Because the cross is not the end of the story. There is also an empty tomb. The cross isn’t just about death, it’s about life. We die to something, but we also live as well. After all, Jesus says: “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10 NIV). This week, we’ll talk about not settling for a half-life, but a life that is full.
Session Two Parent Cue: What does it mean to live life to the full? How does that compare to my life?