Wednesday PM, March 18: Save The Date - Wk3
Videos of this week's message:
(The MS video focuses more on friendships. If you feel that your middle schooler needs to hear more about dating relationships, have them listen to the high school lesson, or even better - listen together!)
BOTTOMLINE THIS WEEK:
You owe it to yourself to be honest with yourself.
Proverbs 11:14
“Where there is no guidance, a people falls,
but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.”
This verse lands at an interesting time in the history-making time we are living in. We are listening to those who are guiding us and honoring them with our response. This wisdom from God’s Word trickles down into the smallest areas of our lives. Why do we make the decisions that we make? What are the safeguards or guardrails in our lives to keep us from making the worst of decisions?
One of the greatest truths this verse points out is that we cannot go at this life alone. I have heard this statement several times over the years, “Show me your friends and I will show you your future.” Who we intentionally place in our lives and how we choose to respond to their counsel is the prime element to either our spiritual growth or spiritual decay. The spaces in which we allow a person into our lives is a measure of their allowed influence into our lives. Friends are important. Who we choose to date or even the people we choose to admire or place as a hero in our lives is critically important. We must not take these decisions lightly. We discussed today that those consequences could be quite severe!
CONSIDER ASKING FOR CONVERSATION:
-What did you hear tonight?
- Recall and share a time that you were proven to be wrong about anything?
(This may be hard… or very easy for some of us. The reason for this question is that we know we are not perfect. That means that the way we see some things or the way we do some things are not right. )
-READ Proverbs 27:6 Discuss how wounds can be a good thing?
(Tough love is still love! I would argue that it is a sign that it is an unconditional love. I can’t really love you and see you make choices that will hurt you without calling them out. Friends that will do that aren’t friends you want influencing you. This is an important understanding. I thank God for these people in my life now!)
-Without naming any names what are some areas that you have personally witnessed others not being able to be honest with themselves?
(The point is it is so much easier to see in other people and not in ourselves. COUNSELING TIP: Parent pay attention to the area in which your student calls attention to… it is often an indication of an area they are focused on themselves.)
-What can you do to practice being honest with yourself?
TONIGHT'S SET LIST:
The following are songs that we would have played in worship tonight! Click on each song to watch/listen on YouTube and worship with your family at home or in the car!
We also create a playlist for each series on Spotify that has each song that we sing as well as other songs that go along with our messages!
THIS MONTH'S BIBLE PLAN
We are reading through the "Save the Date" plan that goes along with our series this month. Click this link to join and read with us!
As a family… use this time of “distancing” to connect. Thank the people in your lives who are people who will love you well. Call out in you the areas that you need correcting! Pray for them and pray to be able to be that kind of person for someone else… pointing others toward Jesus!
THANK YOU FOR TRUSTING US WITH YOUR STUDENTS. WE PRAY THIS NIGHT AND THIS RESOURCE PROVIDES GREAT CONVERSATION THAT POINTS YOU ALL TOWARD CHRIST!
