MNF - September 19, 2005

MNF

September 19, 2005

Order

1. Snack

2. Games

3. Drinks and Sit down

4. Songs

5. Prayer

6. Proverbs

Rules and Recommendations

We have a few rules in youth group.

1. We are a youth group – we do things as a group.

• We include everyone

• No excluding yourselves

• Everyone participates

2. Let us know before you leave and who you are leaving with.

3. No gossiping about others in group or personal discussion.

We have a few recommendations for the youth group.

1. Volunteer to read, pray, setup, clean up. Just do it.

2. Bring your own Bible.

3. Come on time...leave on time. 6:45 – 8:30

4. Our youth group is focused around worshiping God.

• Games=worship

• fellowship=worship

• snack=worship

• 4^th week=worship

• singing=worship

• prayer=worship

• talking all about me ≠ worship

• inappropriate jokes or jokes at inappropriate times ≠ worship

• immodest dress ≠ worship

• looking for dates ≠ worship

• bad attitudes ≠ worship

Review

What is a proverb?

What is wisdom? Why do I want it?

Why are we studying proverbs?

1. To gain wisdom

2. To develop holy habits

• Bible Reading

• Prayer

• Journaling

Our Theme Verse: 1:4 - “for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young” (NIV)

Check Up

How many of you managed the discipline to accomplish all seven chapters this week? And how many actually did one a day?

What do you think of the difficulty level of the study? Easy (1) or Hard (10)?

Let's all strive to make the effort. We all need to exercise our spirits otherwise we will become weak and flabby.

Did you find any common themes as you were reading proverbs last week?

Here are some things I found:

1. Friendships – I read a lot about what is not good for friendships, and how quickly they can be destroyed. I did read a few verses on the value of having good friends.

2. Justice – I remember reading a lot of admonitions to kings and the rich on speaking truth, judging rightly, not accepting bribes, and how we should treat the poor.

3. Tongue – I was struck by the amount of verses that told me how to control my tongue and things I should not say as well as things I should say. I even remember one verse that told me that talking too much was a bad thing. It made me think.

Proverbs Discussion

So let's go through these proverbs together:

Guidelines:

1. Read the verse you liked in that chapter.

2. Read your paraphrase (optional).

3. Read your handle (optional).

4. Tell us why you picked it.

5. We'll discuss it (optional).

6. Only three per chapter (be willing to volunteer, but don't dominate the conversation).

12 – Did anybody read 12?

13 – Noteworthy – 3, 7, 10,13, 24

14 – Noteworthy – 14, 15

15 – Noteworthy - 1, 2, 22

16 – Noteworthy – 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 9, 11, 16, 18, 28, 33

17 – Noteworthy – 2, 3, 5, 9 14, 18, 21, 22, 25, 27

18 – Noteworthy – 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24