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June 14 2009 at 11:28 pm

Youth Sunday: Application

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Dave Brewer gave a topical message on the 10:31 Youth Ministry yesterday, explaining that its mission is “to build teens into the gospel, the Bible and their parents.” His text was 2 Timothy 3:14-17.

Listen online, or download the mp3 of Dave’s message here.

Below are questions by Brian Chesemore to help you apply what Dave taught:

1.  In 2 Timothy 3, Paul tells Timothy that the Scriptures will make him wise for salvation, and that salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ. What place do the Scriptures hold in your family life?  How are they informing your conversations and decisions?  Is there any way in which God’s word functions on the periphery of your thoughts and times together as a family?

2.  How are you specifically building the gospel into your teens or younger children?  How would they answer this question: What must I do to be saved from my sins?  Do they understand that their hope for salvation from sin and acceptance before God is found entirely outside of themselves?

3.  Dave shared how there are, “two institutions that God set in place to disciple a young person: 1) the family and 2) the church. We don’t highlight one at the cost of the other. As a local church we are about both.” How have you experienced grace as you’ve prioritized each of these two? How do your children view these two God-ordained means of grace and gospel-instruction?  How can you build yourself and your children more deeply into family and your church?

4.  What teens and parents of teens has God placed in your life? Take time today and in the days ahead to pray for these teens’ salvation, their confidence in the gospel, and their ongoing growth in Christ-likeness.  Take time to pray for the youth of our church—that they would present a compelling witness to our community and godly influence in our church family.  Pray that God would continue to have mercy on the children and youth of our church and that we would faithfully pass the gospel onto the next generation (Psalm 78:4-7).

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