This is just a duplicate of my sister's lesson from 2 years ago. I promise to work on something for all of you as soon as I can.

UPDATE (21/1):

Before you go through the material say a prayer for your youth and lesson..

When I said we are doing Discovery 3 and 4 together, what I actually meant is that we will not do discovery 4. But you should go thru the material.. it may help you to respond to your youth's response to the gospel.

I have look through the material below.. looks OK. The material below is basically an addition that says "Yes I know you say you believe in Jesus but has Jesus changed your life?"

Also it is not necc for you to use gearing up 3a and 3b if you have other interesting ways to share the gospel. =]

Discovery 3

For this lesson I would highly recommend that you take the lesson to a personal level since some if not all your students already know the facts to salvation. Please split to your respective groups when you reach ACJC and begin lesson when you are ready.


From the notes:
Do Gearing up 3a in your respective groups.

I think the notes are rather comprehensive so I would just add on to what is already there.

Jesus as God
You may want to do Col 1:15-17 to give the students a clearer idea of Jesus as God
vs 15: image of invisible God
vs 17: He is before all things (cf to Gen 1:1 & Gen 1:26) (no one was before all things except God)

Proceed on to go Gearing up 3b & 3c after going through Jesus as a man. I suggest that you do Gearing up 3c 1st as I think the lesson would flow better. or you may choose not to do either one.

His work
You may want to go further and ask why does it have to be Jesus who have to died for our sins (link back to last week's hook & also the hook 3c) and ask them what if Jesus didnt resurrect? What if what we have been hearing is not true? If you have the time you may want to share with them why you think that Jesus is real, in other words, your testimony. Then gather back at the conference room by 11:40am, I will be going through additional notes 3.1.



Personal sharing
I think if you find that the students already know all of this coz I know that some of them are saved, you may want to ditch the materials and do something more personal. You may want to share this with them, Ya, Jesus saves us? So what? (link). Remember that our role is to challenge what they already know, to let their head knowledge become heart knowledge, to challenge and ask them if they are sure that they are Christians. If they already know that Jesus died for them and He is the only one that saves then ask them the following questions:

Since you already know that Jesus is the only way to salvation then are you saved?

If yes you are then why are you still sinning? (you may want to raise up some things you have observed about them during the orientation camp or the previous 2 lessons, I know that some of them weren't sleeping even though they were told to so that may be a starting point)

• Maybe we actually enjoy sinning? (share with them that we are born evil by nature (Col 3:5) and we do get a kick outta sinning and getting away with it, a good time to be personal with them)
• But what are the consequences of sinning? (they already know that eternal death is the consequence but remind them that punishment from sin is something we cannot run away from. Talk about the present consequences, like disobedience to their parents results in lack of trust, you may wanna share about the times you disobeyed your parents and their consequences, like being grounded, cut in allowance. Or what about betraying of friendships (e.g. gossiping) to belong to the 'IN' group? share with them James 4:4 that we are either with the world or with God)
• Are we actually really saved or do we only think that we are saved? What are the signs that we are really saved? (you may wanna share how accepting God resulted in a transformation in our lives and challenge them if they have not experience this change that they should pray about it (you may wanna pray for them too :)) or they should question their salvation)

If no then what is holding you back?

I cant really think of any questions pertaining to this, but I think this may be a good time of sharing to understand your students better. You may wanna use some of the questions above too. Some of them might have been stumbled by their friends/family/relatives who claim to be Christians but are living a life of sin. Maybe they have doubts about the authenticity of the bible (then you may wanna do some research to prove that the bible is true). Whatever the reason is you may want to pray for God to show them that He is real or for God to touch them at the end of the sharing session. :)

I think this is an important lesson so do spend some time in praying even as you prepare for this lesson. :)