Creative Bible Lessons in 1 and 2 Corinthians: 12 Lessons About Making Tough Choices in Tough Times - Softcover

Penner, Marv

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310230942 ISBN 13: 9780310230946

Verlag: Zondervan, 1999

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Christian adolescents in the 21st century face pretty much the same situations as the first-century Christians in Corinth did -- an indulgent, profligate, choose-your-own-god society. The latest in the Creative Bible Lessons series, Creative Bible Lessons in 1 & 2 Corinthians is a 12-lesson curriculum with an issues-oriented spin on living one’s faith in the real world. It lets teenagers wrestle with the tension between biblical instruction and cultural realities. These 12 studies about the not-so-easily-tamed people of Corinth and their founding pastor Paul of Tarsus pave the way for youth workers and Sunday school teachers to teach high schoolers about conversion, transformation, failure, leadership, authority, and God's constant saving love even in the midst of people making a mess of things. Here are some of the not-so-ancient issues you'll explore in this study: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love, Friends Don't Let Friends Go Unforgiven, Those Pesky STDs (Sexually Tough Decisions), Love Is . . ., No Easy Answers, Show Me the Money, and Ouch! Of course, there's lots of what the Creative bible Lessons series is known for: provocative and relevant discussion starters, to-the-point scripts, high-energy games, reproducible pages of interactive activities -- all in the context of hard-core Bible study. 12 lessons.

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Marv Penner is a youth ministry expert with more than 30 years in the field, chairs the youth and family ministry department at Briercrest Graduate School in Saskatchewan, Canada. He's also director of the Canadian Centre of Adolescent Research and author of "The Youth Worker's Guide to Parent Ministry" and "Help! My Kids Are Hurting."

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Christian adolescents in the 21st century face pretty much the same situations as the first-century Christians in Corinth did -- an indulgent, profligate, choose-your-own-god society. The latest in the Creative Bible Lessons series, Creative Bible Lessons in 1 & 2 Corinthians is a 12-lesson curriculum with an issues-oriented spin on living one's faith in the real world. It lets teenagers wrestle with the tension between biblical instruction and cultural realities. These 12 studies about the not-so-easily-tamed people of Corinth and their founding pastor Paul of Tarsus pave the way for youth workers and Sunday school teachers to teach high schoolers about conversion, transformation, failure, leadership, authority, and God's constant saving love even in the midst of people making a mess of things. Here are some of the not-so-ancient issues you'll explore in this study: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love, Friends Don't Let Friends Go Unforgiven, Those Pesky STDs (Sexually Tough Decisions), Love Is . . ., No Easy Answers, Show Me the Money, and Ouch! Of course, there's lots of what the Creative bible Lessons series is known for: provocative and relevant discussion starters, to-the-point scripts, high-energy games, reproducible pages of interactive activities -- all in the context of hard-core Bible study.

12 lessons.

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Creative Bible Lessons in 1 & 2 Corinthians

12 lessons about making tough choices in tough timesBy Mary Penner

Zondervan

Copyright © 2007 Youth Specialties, Inc.
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-310-23094-6

Contents

INTRODUCTION HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THIS BOOK...........................9LESSON 1 MY KINDA TOWN...................................................15(1 & 2 CORINTHIANS; ACTS 18)LESSON 2 FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS GO UNFORGIVEN.........................27(1 CORINTHIANS 5; 2 CORINTHIANS 2:5-11)LESSON 3 YOU'LL HEAR FROM MY LAWYER!.....................................35(1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-11) WITH PAUL'SLESSON 4 THOSE PESKY STDS (SEXUALLY TOUGH DECISIONS).....................45(1 CORINTHIANS 6:12-20) FREEDOM ISLESSON 5 MYSTERIES OF MARRIAGE...........................................57(1 CORINTHIANS 7) HEALTHY MARRIAGESLESSON 6 GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME LOVE.................................69(1 CORINTHIANS 8) SOMETIMES YOU NEEDLESSON 7 GIVE ME A HAND, LEND ME YOUR EAR................................79(1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-27) BELIEVERSLESSON 8 LOVE IS ........................................................89(1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-8) TIME TO SEPARATELESSON 9 NO EASY ANSWERS.................................................99(2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-7) AS BADLY AS ITLESSON 10 FRIENDS........................................................109(2 CORINTHIANS 6:14-18) ARE NON-CHRISTIANLESSON 11 SHOW ME THE MONEY..............................................119(2 CORINTHIANS 8 & 9) YES, IT'S STILL TRUELESSON 12 OUCH!..........................................................129(2 CORINTHIANS 11:21-12:10) ALTHOUGH

Chapter One

MY KINDA TOWN LESSON 1: 1 & 2 CORINTHIANS, ACTS 18

HERE'S THE DEAL

Paul's letters to the Corinthians 2,000 years ago still speak directly to our spiritual and cultural issues.

THE BIG PICTURE

You'd think the problems and issues facing a Greek city 2,000 years ago would be nothing more than historical curiosities today. Wrong! Sneak a peek at the letters to the Corinthians and you'll find Paul carrying on about divorce, dating non-Christians, and partying. Sounds familiar, huh? Ancient Corinth was surprisingly similar to our own cities and neighborhoods. What was true for the Corinthians is true for us: the advice and life-guiding principles that Paul wrote to the Christians in Corinth are still relevant 20 centuries later. And the closer attention your kids pay to these letters of Paul, the better prepared they will be to respond to the pressures, demands, and needs of their own community.

JUST FOR STARTERS

LANDMARK ARTISTS (OPTION 1)

Before your students arrive, draw some simple pictures of famous city landmarks on full sheets of paper. We've given some suggestions to get you started. Keep them simple so you don't dampen their desire to participate.

As kids arrive give them several sheets of paper and some markers. Invite them to draw some of their own landmark pictures of places they know. Help them with suggestions if they seem to be drawing a blank (Cinderella's Castle, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, or some local landmark most students would recognize). Number the creations and post them around the room. Let students guess both what the drawings are and what city they're from.

LANDMARK ARTISTS PICTIONARY (OPTION 2)

Play this game like the old favorite Pictionary using the cards you've cut up from Landmark Artists (page 22). Divide the kids into teams, and have a timed competition with kids taking turns drawing pictures for their teams to guess.

WEIRD CITY NAMES (OPTION 3)

Distribute copies of Weird City Names (page 23) and ask your students to identify which eight of the 12 are names of actual North American towns or cities. (Bozo, Funky, Bingo, and Busy are the impostors.)

Regardless of the opener you chose, transition into the Tough Times section by saying-

More than likely, all the cities we've just looked at are very similar. There are believers in every one of them. Some of the communities have lots of churches with great leadership and awesome buildings. Others have small struggling groups meeting in humble circumstances.

We're starting a series of lessons today based on a couple of letters written to a group of believers in a particular city nearly 2,000 years ago. Now some of you are already thinking, "Great, what does 2,000-year-old mail have to do with me?" But, I think you'll be amazed at the relevance this mail has to your life today.

The two letters we'll be studying over the next few weeks were written by a guy named Paul, to a church in the city of Corinth-an important city on the Mediterranean in ancient times. Paul cared deeply about his friends in Corinth because he had helped them set up their church while on a trip through the area several years earlier. After a few years, Paul felt they needed a wake-up call, and the letters we find in the Bible are Paul's attempt to get this church back on track.

TOUGH TIMES

SOUNDS TOO FAMILIAR

Move your students into groups of three or four and give each group a Bible, a pair of scissors, and a copy of Sounds Too Familiar (page 24). Ask them to cut out the headings, the Scripture passages, and the issues from the sheet, then look up each Scripture passage and match it with the appropriate issue. Then ask them to consider our world today and place each paired passage and issue under one of the three headings.

After they're done say something like-

You'll notice that the church still struggles with most of the issues Paul addresses in this letter. That's why it's so important for us to know and understand Paul's instructions to his friends in Corinth. When God put the Bible together he knew that even 2,000 years later we'd be able to use this advice to live our lives more effectively.

TOUGH TRUTH

DIGGING IN (ACTIVE LEARNING)

Acts 18

This section will help students learn about the city of Corinth and the culture of the people there. Use the FYI facts below to put together a short geography-history lesson on the city and what it was like to live there. You might want to do some additional research on your own. A good study Bible or Bible dictionary will have some valuable information. If you have several copies of these kinds of resources available, bring them to class and allow your students the joy of discovering some of the information on their own.

Give each student a pencil and a C'mon Over to Corinth! (page 25) sheet and have them pair up to read Acts 18-a passage describing Paul's original visit to Corinth. Ask them to list any clues the passage gives them about the city, the church, or the people of Corinth, and add the information to the bottom of the handout. After they have written the clues, combine two pairs to make a group of four, and have them take turns reading one entry at a time to each other. For extra fun let them score points for any clue they found that the other pair didn't have on their list.

Finish by letting groups report while you compile a master list of things about Corinth on a flip chart. Finally ask your students what Corinth and your own town have in common.

DIGGING DEEPER (SELECTED SCRIPTURES)

Begin by saying something like-

God calls his people to live in places that are a lot like Corinth....

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Zondervan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0310230942
• ISBN 13: 9780310230946
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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