All Adaptable Meeting Guide articles – Page 6
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Blog
Adaptable meeting guide: Reimagining Church 4: Into action!
To plan a new way of being church in a new place, with new people. How can we work together, using our strengths and skills to prepare something new?
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Issues
Adaptable Meeting Guide #4: The Gospel according to ... Made in Chelsea
To explore what the lives of those in Made in Chelsea say to us, and explore the worldview they represent.
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IssuesAdaptable Meeting Guide #4: Philippians 4
Meeting aim: To explore and understand that true peace, joy, comfort and contentment is found in Christ alone.
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BlogAdaptable meeting guide: Unwrapping Christmas 4 - Herod
Preparation: Get hold of the suggested clip from The Lion King (and perhaps other clips, too, if you want to use them to illustrate other points). Make sure you know the story well enough to draw comparisons between Scar and Herod. Before the session, read through the two mini-websites we’ve built for this session here, ensuring you understand what they say.
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BlogAdaptable Meeting Guide: Ephesians 3-4
Meeting aim: To consider, discuss and reflect on the themes of the middle chapters of Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus.
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BlogAdaptable meeting guide: Reimagining Church 3: How can we make it happen?
To explore any doubts or questions the teenagers may have about doing church differently.
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Adaptable meeting guide: Reimagining Church 3: What is Church?
To move away from the idea of church as a building or institution and to focus on some of the key elements taught to us by Jesus, particularly mission and passing on our faith to others.
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BlogAdaptable Meeting Guide #3: The Gospel according to … Kanye West
To see what the music and ideas of Kanye West have to say to us, and how the Bible offers an alternative.
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Issues
Adaptable Meeting Guide #3: My Worth: Knowing I am part of something everlasting
To explore where we get our worth - from knowing this world is temporary but that we are part of something everlasting.
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IssuesAdaptable meeting guide: Unwrapping Christmas 3 - The Wise Men
Preparation: Try the ‘Three knife scaffold’ challenge yourself (take along enough glasses and knives for the groups to try it). From a box of six eggs, blow one out (instructions at premieryouthwork.com/links) before replacing it in the box. Don’t forget which one it is.
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BlogAdaptable Meeting Guide #3: Philippians 3
Meeting aim: To count everything as loss compared to knowing Jesus.
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BlogAdaptable meeting guide: Reimagining Church 2: What is Church?
To focus on community as a key part of church. To move away from the idea of church as a building or institution and instead to think about it as a living community built on the principles taught to us by Jesus.
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BlogAdaptable Meeting Guide #2: The Gospel according to … Instagram
To explore what Instagram tells us about the way to live our lives, and how the Bible offers an alternative.
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Issues
Adaptable Meeting Guide #2 : My Worth: Knowing Jesus as my Friend
To explore where we get our worth - from knowing God is our friend and loves us.
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IssuesAdaptable meeting guide: Unwrapping Christmas 2 - The Shepherds
Preparation: Hang up posters, each quoting a Bible verse, at different points around the room (the verses are listed below, under ‘The other thing about shepherds’). Make sets of cards bearing the questions from that activity (see below); one set for each small group. Provide a large sheet of paper and some marker pens.
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