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Changes Ahead & Growth for Life

Changes Ahead & Growth for Life. Unit 1. New Horizons. Assignment. Read pages 7-12 Journal # 5 (everyone) #1, 2, 3 or 4 (choose one) Take the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale for Teens on my website Christian Living / Assignments / Unit 1 Place in your journal (staple or tape).

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Changes Ahead & Growth for Life

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  1. Changes Ahead& Growth for Life Unit 1

  2. New Horizons

  3. Assignment • Read pages 7-12 • Journal • # 5 (everyone) • #1, 2, 3 or 4 (choose one) • Take the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale for Teens on my website • Christian Living / Assignments / Unit 1 • Place in your journal (staple or tape)

  4. Life Transition • What is a “life transition”? • What are some of the hardest transitions in life?

  5. The Top 12 “Stressers”

  6. Stress • What is stress? • Can a doctor or scientist measure stress? • Why or why not? • Why is one thing very stressful for you, but the same thing is not very stressful for someone else? • What does this tell you about stress? • Who (or what) creates stress?

  7. Stress: The Answer • What are some typical ways we react to stress? • See Luke 22.39-46 • What is the temptation? • How did Jesus handle stress? • Why should we not freak out or go crazy when life is stressful? • Read Mt 8.23-27 & Ps 107.28-30

  8. Who are you?

  9. Assignment • Read 13-24 • Journal #9, 11, 16 • For Review p. 19 (all) • Quiz pages 20-24

  10. Who are you? • JOURNAL: Write 10-15 different statements that begin with “I am a …” • Stick with nouns, not adjectives. • Example: “I am a worker.” Not “I am caring” or “I am strong.” • Now group the statements. • Be careful. Many groups overlap, so use circles. • Here’s how: find the one statement that connects to all the others. It’s the “central statement.” Put it in the middle, and then build from there. • If there are two or three statements that connect to many but do not connect to each other, then make two or three different “central statements.” • What is your “central statement” (or your “central statements”)? • How do the connecting statements connect to the central statement?

  11. Who are you? • Most of our connections are through relationships. Did you find that to be true of your connecting statements? • How would you classify your key relationships? • JOURNAL: Write 3-5 sentences summarizing what you’ve learned about your identity.

  12. Who Were You? • Read 1 Corinthians 6.9-20 • Why does St Paul say that you used to be one of those criminals mentioned in vv 9-10? • What is the difference between you and the worst person you can imagine? • What do these words mean: “you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God” (v 11)?

  13. Who Have You Become? • What does St Paul mean in v 12? Can you put v 12 in your own words? • Why did God make your body? (v 13) • THINK: Jesus mostly healed the blind, deaf, lame and mute. These miracles teach us something about ourselves, about our spiritual selves. • Notice that Jesus did not heal those with cancer, heart disease, strokes. • Why did God make • Your ears? • Your eyes? • Your tongue? • Your hands? • Your feet?

  14. Who Have You Become? • Remembering why Jesus made these parts of your body, what does it mean that God “will also raise us by his power”? • Does it just mean that our bodies will rise from the dead? Or does it also mean that our entire being will be returned to its original purpose—that our eyes, ears and nose “will be raised” to fulfill their original function? • So whose body is your body? (v 15-20) • With whom are you “one flesh” and “one spirit” (v 16, 17) • What does it mean to be “one flesh”?

  15. Who Have You Become? • What does it mean that “you are not your own”? • Define these terms: • Autonomy • Independence • Person • Individual • How are these terms related? • How do they help you understand who you are, and who you are not? • What is the Johari window?

  16. Autonomy!? • What does it mean to be autonomous? • Can you really be completely autonomous? • What happens if you live all by yourself? • THINK: Tom Hanks and Wilson in “Castaway” • Can you really live without someone else?

  17. Independence?! • What does it mean to be independent? • What is the difference between “independence” and “autonomy”?

  18. Who Have You Become? • What does it mean that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit? (v 19) • Where is this most clearly demonstrated? • What does it means that “you have been purchased at a price”? (v 20) • What was the price? • Why did you have to be purchased? • Are you now a slave?

  19. Who are you? • JOURNAL: Now write 10-15 different statements that begin with “I am…” • This time, use the adjectives • Be honest. Don’t talk about who you wish you were, or who you want to be, but who you really are. • Now group the statements using circles. Find the “central statement” first. • What is your “central statement” (or your “central statements”)? • Mark the statements that • Surprise you • That you want to change • That you like • JOURNAL: Summarizing what you’ve learned about yourself.

  20. Johari Window

  21. Being You • Can what you do determine who you are? • Can changing how you act change who you are? • So, now, why should you “avoid immorality”? (1 Cor 6.18) • Read Romans 6 • JOURNAL: Write what you’ve learned about yourself based on what St Paul says in Romans 6 • Be ready to discuss this with the group • JOURNAL: Write 10-15 different statements that begin with “I want to…” • KEY: Be realistic. You’re not trying to be someone else. You’re not really trying to change who you are. You’re simply identifying things that will make you a better you.

  22. Assignment • Read 25-27 • Journal # 17

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