Thursday Night Fellowship
November 10, 2005
Order
Snack
Activity – pew beach volleyball
Announcements – bring your jars of clay money, welcome the Dyers
Proverbs
Check Up
How many of you managed the discipline to accomplish eighteen chapters over the last two weeks? And how many actually did one a day?
Why do you think most of us were unsuccessful? Accountability is important.
Guidelines:
Read the verse you liked in that chapter.
Read your paraphrase (optional).
Read your handle (optional).
Tell us why you picked it.
We'll discuss it (optional).
Only three per chapter (be willing to volunteer, but don't dominate the conversation).
Chapter 5 -
Chapter 6 -
Chapter 7 – 8
vs 6-8 – how do you know that this young man was foolish according to what it says here?
Chapter 8 – 9, 13, 35
vs. 9 – wisdom should come easier to those who desire to learn
vs. 13 – the fear of the Lord is to hate what God hates and love what God loves
vs 35 – what does it mean that whoever finds wisdom finds life and gains approval from God
Chapter 9 -
Chapter 10 -
Review Process:
Pray
Read the chapter
Select a verse
Paraphrase the verse
Write a handle of the verse
Prayer of application
Memorize one a week
Why are we using this process? What is important about each step? This is not the only way to spend time with the Lord. Sometimes we need more studying or prayer or just meditating on who God is.
Review
What is a proverb? A short saying that expresses a general truth
What is wisdom? “skillful living”
The ability to choose what is best, not merely what is right or wrong, good or bad.
Why did we study proverbs?
To gain wisdom
To develop holy habits
Bible Reading
Prayer
Journaling
Did we accomplish our goals?
How many of your for the first time with this study? Why was it important for us to journal?
How many of you actually prayed almost everyday because of our study?
How many of you read your bible more in the last two months than you have for most of your life?
So what do you think? Did we accomplish our goals?
What about our first goal to gain wisdom? Let's see if we did.
List of famous or weird proverbs from our introductory lesson.
26:11
26.14
16:18
3:5-6
15:17
When we first started proverbs no one knew how to give the general truths for these proverbs nor the application. I believe we have grown in wisdom. For that we should thank the Lord.
Why do I want wisdom?
Avoid evil and deception
to gain wealth
healthy friendships
healthy marriages
avoid unnecessary heartache
understand the fear of the Lord
to avoid the immoral woman
to be a virtuous woman
to live a long life
to have success
to be discreet
to make good career and business decisions
to uphold justice
to control our tongue
to escape the snares of the wicked
to have peace with others, ourselves, and God
to obey and honor our parents
to keep from pride and destruction
And what reason did I give you every week as to why we want/need wisdom?
gaining wisdom is necessary for a growing relationship with Jesus.
Why do you think I repeated that every week?
Everting comes down to our relationship with Jesus Christ. If you do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ then reading proverbs is meaningless. Youth group is meaningless. He is the reason why we meet every week.
Do you know Jesus? Do you know who He is? Do you know what he is doing right now? He's right here with us. He's so excited that you came tonight. He's been looking forward to you coming to youth group tonight. Jesus loves you.
Our faith is based upon a relationship with Jesus. Some say it's a personal relationship, but most people live like it's an impersonal relationship. We need wisdom to know how to grow in our relationship with Jesus.
Because Jesus is so central to why we are here and why we exist, our next study will be about Jesus. We will be reading through the gospel of John to see who Jesus is, and how he treated the people he came in contact with. We also want to look closely at how people responded to Jesus so that we can learn how we ought to respond to him as well.
So as the band Pillar sings, “Where do we go from here?”
For our devotions this week write a paragraph summary of a story you remember from the life of Jesus. Do this four times this week. In addition to that, spend some time praying for God to reveal to you who Jesus is.
Optional Homework: Fill in the remaining days with the day's chapter of proverbs.
Optional Homework: Read John 1-3 and note in your journal how people responded to Jesus.
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