September 20 - Middle School
What we’re learning this week:
The Bible is a big book and can feel challenging to understand, but did you know it tells one story? During this series, we will look at each major scene of the story and, use the animal that represents that scene as a visual to show our students that they can understand the story of God!
As we continue our series about the story of God, we will explore how Adam and Eve were deceived into disobeying God and students will be reminded that we have an enemy who wants to disrupt our pursuit of God. The good news is that God had a plan to move toward the brokenness – He still moves towards the brokenness today.
Bottom Line: The enemy has a plan, but so does God.
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-15, John 10:10
Small Group Discussion
6th Grade Leaders: You will stay in the session space and staff/coach will lead you and your students through some discussion.
Review the key verse (we will look at this verse every week)
Discuss your group covenant (you will finalize this next week)
Choose one or two questions from below
Make a plan as a group for reading Genesis 1-2
Go over prayer requests & pray
Series Key Verse: All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. 2 Timothy 3:16a
Tonight we discussed two of the enemy's schemes: Making God seem unfair and making what’s wrong seem right.. Which one of the two made more sense to you? Can you think of an example of that in your own life?
One of the ways we can resist the enemy’s schemes is to get to know God’s voice: Is there a time of day that you can plan on spending time reading the Bible this week? How many times can we all agree to read the Bible this week?
The big idea from tonight was “the enemy has a plan, but so does God.” in your own words, what was God’s plan of responding to Adam and Eve’s sin? What’s God’s plan in responding to our sin?
Do you believe God loves you, even when you sin?
Extra Info
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Don’t forget about the Lifeline Leader Toolkit. To learn more about this, check out this information page.
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If you’d ever like to reference the Lifeline handbook, we have a digital version of that available here on our website.
