The Gospel-Centered Life for Teens, Participant’s Guide (The Gospel-Centered Life)
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Techie? Jock? Class Clown? You Can’t Build a Life on a Label. Something or someone will always try to define you. Maybe others call you the techie, the jock, the class clown, or the smart kid.
It’s easy to think that those labels sum up who you really are, express what really matters in your life, and define the things you should pursue. But your identity goes far deeper than the positive or even the negative labels people use to define you. There is something at the core of a satisfying and meaningful life that can’t be summed up by any label.
The Gospel-Centered Life for Teens offers you the chance to center your life on the only thing in the universe that actually has the power to define you, give your life meaning, and shape how you live each day.
This 9-lesson Bible study, adapted from The Gospel-Centered Life by Bob Thune and Will Walker, gives teens and young adults a road map for living a life centered on God and the gospel. Each lesson is self-contained, featuring clear teaching from Christian Scripture, and requires no extra work outside the group setting. The self-explanatory Leader’s Guide helps small group leaders with discussion questions and background material that clearly explain and apply the gospel truths from each lesson.
This nine-lesson small group study defining and applying the gospel in a teen-friendly way is adapted from Thune and Walker’s best-selling book The Gospel-Centered Life. It is appropriate for believers and non-believers alike, with self-contained lessons and clear teaching from Christian Scripture making it easy-to-use and requiring no homework. The Gospel Centered Life For Teens brings teenagers together, making community the context for gospel change.
The self-explanatory Leader’s Guide contains discussion questions and background material for each lesson.
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- Helps you center your life on the only thing with the power to truly define you and give your life meaning
- Offers a 9-lesson Bible study that provides a roadmap for living a life centered on God and the gospel
- Facilitates easy, engaging group study with self-contained lessons and a comprehensive Leader’s Guide
- Introduction
- Gospel Overview
- Lesson 1– The Gospel Grid
- Lesson 2–Pretending
- Lesson 3–Performing
- Lesson 4–Law & Gospel
- Lesson 5–Repentance
- Lesson 6–Heart Idolatry
- Lesson 7–Mission
- Lesson 8–Forgiveness
- Lesson 9–Conflict
The Gospel-Centered Life for Teens is a remarkable, easy-to-use curriculum for helping young adults go deeper into the glories of all that God has done for us in Christ. Important theological concepts including God’s holiness, our sinfulness, and the relationship between the law and the gospel are explained in simple, clear, and compelling language. This is a resource that can simultaneously introduce teens to Christ and help committed Christians grow in their faith. I’m excited to recommend it.
—Alex Chediak, Professor at California Baptist University; author of Thriving at College: Make Great Friends, Keep Your Faith, and Get Ready for the Real World!
Fantastic study! Creative, innovative, refreshing, and biblically focused!
—Joe White, President of Kanakuk Kamps
I know so many teens who need these lessons. They’re living in an image-gripped world where acceptance seems based on this or that label. The Gospel-Centered Life for Teens turns that on its head, steadily and sweetly pointing students to ‘the only label that really matters: “in Christ.”’ What great lessons! They take on the tough issues teens deal with every day, like gossip and greed, and they show how believing the gospel changes everything. I wish every teen I know could do this study.
—Jack Klumpenhower, Author of Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids