Tailgate Tour 2009

We're very excited to announce that tomorrow will kick off our Tailgate Tour for the 2009 high school football season. We will have games, drinks, food, and lots of fun. Just look for a big tent and come find us! Here's the e-mail sent out earlier today:

Hello all,
We are excited to be taking part in a tailgating tour throughout the 2009 football season. This is a great opportunity to reach kids in our community and to get our name out there for everyone to see. We will be tailgating in the parking lot of the host schools starting an hour and a half before kickoff. We are providing drinks and games, we only ask that you bring a snack or two with you to help with costs. Here is the schedule for 2009:

TOMORROW: August 28th: Logan County @ Greenwood (tailgating starts at 5:30)

Friday, September 11th: Warren East @ Bowling Green (tailgating starts at 5:30, and a Fifth Quarter party at the church will follow the game)

Friday, September 25: Meade County @ Greenwood (tailgating starts at 5:30)

Friday, October 2: Grayson County @ Bowling Green (tailgating starts at 5:30)

Friday, October 16: Central Hardin @ Greenwood (tailgating starts at 6:30)

Friday, October 23: Warren Central @ Bowling Green (tailgating starts at 5:30)

While this is an outreach for youth, all adults are invited to come and participate in games, and get food as well. We hope to see you out under the Friday Night Lights this fall!!

Jared

8/23 Ignite: Good Hygiene- Clean Hands

After a hard fought four games of Capture the Flag, we came indoors for a discussion for our Good Hygiene series.

Luke 10:25-32

• Why didn’t the priest or Levite stop? A:They would have been deemed unclean.
• Some people disagree that we should have broken people in church. The fact is we are all broken and in need of saving. We need kids in here who don’t have it all figured out, who didn’t grow up in families like you did

Luke 10:33-37

• Why is this guy being a Samaritan a big deal? Samaritans and Jews hated each other. They would get in fights, kill one another, and teach future generations not to have anything to do with each other. Yet a Samaritan is the one who goes to help the beat up Jew, not even fellow Jews did that.
• He didn’t just call an ambulance, he healed his wounds, fixed him up, found a place for him to stay and paid it.

Jared's Challenge

• For Mess Fest, we wanted 150 people and got 40. I’m not being mad at you or criticizing you. Honestly, I don’t think you all have been taught how to evangelize. I think we’ve either been sheltered or never fully taught how to spread the gospel.
• Around you are shirts that should have been worn by students. The question is tonight, are we going to waste food at Mess Fest, or are we going to make it worth it? We do not respond in anger or in spite, we respond in action, and the only way that Mess Fest is going to be a success is if we bring others to know Jesus. People who are messy, downtrodden and out of it.
• Next week we are going to present the very basics of the Gospel. We are going to have an evangelistic service. We want souls saved next week. So I’m begging you to make a difference. To reach the unreachable. To get your hands dirty. To find some messed up people, and bring them in. We don’t want to steal sheep, we want to find lost ones. We want these shirts to go out. Grab one of these shirts and take it to someone who is messed up, someone who is lost and in need of saving, and to bring them next Sunday. We will have loud music, we will be going all out. Let’s not worry about clean or unclean, just the person who is beat up on the side of the road of life.

Due to running out of time, we didn't get to our M&M time. Here are the questions, that we would have discussed:

Introduction

• What is the grossest thing you have ever done?
• What is the grossest thing you have ever touched?
• While there probably are some people out there who we would be afraid to touch, we don’t generally go around thinking that we would get some disease for touching someone else. In Biblical times, that was exactly the case. That’s why the story of the Good Samaritan happens. The Jewish folk don’t touch him because they don’t want to get ‘unclean’. Sadly, even after hanging out with Jesus for three years, Peter was the same way.

Bible Reading-Read Romans 10:9-21

• Who is Cornelius? A centurion. A Roman. Someone considered to be unclean because he did not follow the dietary guidelines of the Jews, among other things.
• We find that Peter ends up and goes to Cornelius and spreads the good news.

Application

• Is there someone, or some type of person that you feel uncomfortable around? Is there someone that you don’t feel is ‘worthy’ enough to talk to you?
• Is there someone that you know right now who does not know Jesus as their Savior? As a passer-by in the road called life, we are called to pick up those who cannot walk on their own, or who are lost.

8/23 Bankrupt- The Story of Job, Job 33-37

Job 32.1-5

• This guy has been sitting there waiting to pounce. He thought that those who were older would be wiser, but he sees that this is not quite the case.

Now he turns his attention to Job

• 33.1-11 He acknowledges that he is not better than Job, that they are one in the same
• 33.12-18 He points out that God is there and will be with Job. Basically he is noting that Job is not suffering because of sin, but he is sinning because of his suffering.
• 33.19-33 Elihu tries his best to give an answer for what is going on. While it is wiser than anything the friends said, it still isn’t the fullest answer. This is why I hate Oprah, Dr. Phil, and shows like that. Man’s advice can help, but it can NEVER answer all the questions that we have!!! Only God can. Can you imagine how great the church would be if we sought God’s answers to our problems and questions as much as we watch Oprah, read bestselling books and talk to pastors?

In chapter 34 Elihu notes that the friends did have small nuggets of truth in their speeches to Job, but they were buried under the layers of false assumptions and conclusions.

• We might have a wealth of bible knowledge and life experiences, but we must make sure our conclusions are consistent with all of God’s Word, not just part of it.

Job 35.1-37.24

• Elihu concluded his speech with the tremendous truth that faith in God is far more important than Job’s desire for an explanation for his suffering. Do you believe this?

Application

• What are your thoughts on what we went through today?
• Do you agree with Elihu’s advice? Is there anything wrong with what he said?

8/16 Ignite: Good Hygiene Series- Brushing Your Teeth

Students matched up to see which toothpaste was the most popular. It was a tie between Colgate and Crest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWDgQPSomGk

Devotion- James 3:3-11

• James 3:3-8. Dangers of a tongue:  Tears down others & tears down our reputations
• James 3:9-11. We use the same part of our body to bring such praise and admiration for God, yet it is also so vile and dangerous when used incorrectly.

Discussion Time (M&Ms)

Introduction

• Someone once said, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”  Whoever said that was either high, or living in a bubble. Words hurt. They pierce us, and last with us for a long, long time. Think of a time in your life a long time ago, where someone said something hurtful to you, and you still remember it to this day.
• Realize that the things that we say and do affect others. When we talk bad about someone, even if we think they will never hear what we say, it still is wrong, and is hurtful to the person you are saying it about.

Bible Reading- Hand out “The Four Tongues” Activity Sheet

• Let’s take a look at some of the Proverbs, and what they say about the words that we use (via Life Application Study Bible).

1. The Controlled Tongue: Those with this speech pattern think before speaking, know when silence is best, and give wise advice. FOUND IN: Proverbs 10:19,11:12-13, 12:16, 13:3, 15:1, 15:4, 15:28, 16:23, 17:14, 17:27, 17:28, 21:23, 24:2
2. The Caring Tongue: Those with this speech pattern speak truthfully while seeking to encourage. FOUND IN: Proverbs 10:32, 12:18, 12:25, 15:23, 16:24, 16:25, 25:15, 27:9
3. The Conniving Tongue: Those with this speech pattern are filled with wrong motives, gossip, slander, and a desire to twist truth. FOUND IN: 6:12-14, 8:13, 16:28, 18:8, 25:18, 26:20-28
4. The Careless Tongue: Those with this speech pattern are filled with lies, curses, quick tempered words- which can lead to rebellion and destruction. FOUND IN: Proverbs 10:18, 10:32, 11:9, 12:16, 12:18, 15:4, 17:9, 17:14, 17:19, 20:19, 25:23 
5. If you have spare time check out these other verses about our speech: Proverbs 10:11, 10:20, 10:31, 12:6, 12:17-19, 13:2, 14:3, 19:5, 19:28, 25:11, 27:2, 27:5, 27:14, 27:17, 29:9

Application

• Is there someone that you have a hard time not talking bad about? Try this week to find good things, and point them out.
• What are some ways that we can use to help us keep a clean mouth and become a better person

8/16 Bankrupt- The Story of Job (Job 22-31)

To begin, the junior high held a mock trial.

Lesson:

• Job 22-This is the final speech from Eliphaz. What has he basically said in his first two speeches to Job? Read 22.4-11. Now Eliphaz gets more specific in his indictments of Job. Is he correct in his accusations?  If Job did all this, why is he still considered righteous? Read 22.12-14  He accuses Job of having a view of God that was too small.  Is he truthful in this accusation?
• Job 23-24 Job continues to question everything. He says that suffering would be more bearable if he knew why it was happening to him.  He tries to show that his questions about God, life, and justice are not as simple as the friend’s assumed 
• Job 25- Bildad’s final speech.  It’s weak.  He simply accuses Job of pride because he would not say sin was the reason that he was suffering. Read 25.1-6
• Job 26 is a refute of Bildad.  Read v. 1-4
• Job 27- Job continues to stand against the friend’s advice
•  Job 28 is a beautiful hymn for wisdom.  Read Chapter 28. It's almost as if this were a commercial during the soap opera that is Job's story 
• Job 29-31 is Job’s last stand.  Chapter 29 is Job looking back at his past happiness, chapter 30 is Job looking at his present misery, and  chapter 31 Job asserts his integrity, as in a court of law. Read Chapter 31. Job mentions that he has: never looked lustfully at a girl, been fair to his menservants and maidservants, always reached out to the poor and met their needs, loved God over money, had compassion for even his enemies, was a great steward of whatever God gave him.

Senior High discussion question:

• At this point in the story, what would you say to Job?

Junior High discussion questions:

• Based on what we know about Job, is his defense truthful.
• If you were the judge, would you find God guilty of unfairly doing this to Job?

Mess Fest Links

Here are some links for Mess Fest:

Junior High pictures-thanks to Melody Urban

Senior High pictures 1- thanks to Amy Vaughan

Senior High pictures 2- thanks to Melody Urban

Senior High video- thanks to Amy Vaughan

The Bowling Green Daily News features Mess Fest on it's front page!

Monday Update: A Busy, But Great Weekend

I guess all we can say is WOW! We had a great time at Mess Fest 2009. More importantly we were able to reach out to other youth in our community. We turned heads on Smallhouse Road all day long!  A special thanks to all the volunteers who sacrificed a Saturday to come out and make Mess Fest what it was.  Of course, we would like to thank the youth for working so hard in getting people to attend Mess Fest.  We would also like to thank the Bowling Green Daily News for coming out and doing a front page story of Mess Fest.  Please look for pictures, videos, and more to come after a great Saturday. Also, make sure to check with our BFC and Ignite recap.

Plea for Mess Fest

Church Family,
I hope that many of you have been praying about Mess Fest and all the people that we will be able to encounter and hopefully bring in to our church walls. I know some of you have already volunteered, and that is greatly appreciated. However, we are in need of food for our giant food fight.  If you have food just laying around your house, or if you want to get really creative and make something for the food fight, please let us know. We are in need of foods to use.  If you make something, or want to bring something for the food fight, please bring it to the church no later than 10:30am tomorrow. We will split up the food for the junior and senior high so that each session gets as much food as possible.  We really need your help in order to pull this off. If you have any questions please e-mail me or call me. Please be praying for Mess Fest! Thank you and have a great day!

Jared

Ingredients to Mess Fest #1

8/9 Bankrupt: The Story of Job (Job 2:11-21:34)

Introduction:

• What is the worst advice you ever received from a friend?

Lesson:

•  Read Job 2.11-13: The friend’s come to the rescue, they are going help Job through the hard time in his life.
• Read Job 3: Can you feel the absurd amount of grief that Job is experiencing here?  We see that Job is beginning to lose perspective; he’s losing his purpose in life.
• Job 4-5:  Eliphaz starts in his advice to Job. What does he say the reason for Job’s suffering is?  Read Job 5:17-27
• Job 6-7 Job’s response: What does Job say to Eliphaz? Read Job 6:14-29, 7:20-21. Job knows that he has done nothing to deserve what has happened to him.
• Job 8: Bildad reaffirms what Eliphaz tried to tell Job. Read Job 8:1-7, 20-22
• Job 9-10:  Job refutes Bildad. Read 9:21-24. Then he turns to God asking why these things are happening to him. Read 10:8-17.  Job acknowledges the fact that the more he puts his faith in God, the more is taken away from him
• Job 11: Zophar gets a little angry at Job for not admitting his sins. Read Job 11:2-5
• Job 12-14: Job refutes Zophar. Read Job 12:2-4, 13:1-6.  However, he possibly starts to think that his friends have a point, look at his plea: Read Job 13:20-28.  Now he loses hope: Read Job 14:7-22
• Job 15: You would think that good friends would now let bygones be bygones and console their friend.  Not so much.  Here comes round two. Though the accusation is the same, Eliphaz is ruder, more intense, more threatening. Read Job 15:17-35
• Job 16-17: Job’s friends were supposed to be comforting him in his grief; instead they condemned him for causing his own suffering. Read Job 16:2-5
• Job 18: Bildad is back at it again, he thinks he knows how the universe should be run, and he saw Job as an illustration of the consequences of sin.
• Job 19: Job gives another rebuttal: Read Job 19:2-6
• Job 20: Zophar’s speech showed that he presumed that Job was an evil hypocrite.  He said that although Job had it good for a while, he didn’t live righteously, so God took his wealth from him.  According to Zophar, Job’s calamities proved his wickedness
• Job 21: Job's final rebuttal (at least for this week): Verses 1-21- Job points out that even the wicked live better lives than he is right now. They are prosperous and happy. Verses   22-26-  What do Adolf Hitler, Mother Teresa, Saddam Hussein, and Martin Luther King have in common?  They are all dead and buried. Job says that those who live good lives and live bad lives both end up side by side in a graveyard.  By looking at things through a worldly point of view, things get quite upsetting and disappointing.  Life seems meaningless. Verses 27-34- Job tells his friends that no matter how many times they try to get him to admit his sins, he will not do it.  He knows he didn’t do anything to deserve this, but his friends just won’t listen.

 Application 

• What are your thoughts on what we went through today?
  

Press Release for Mess Fest!

Mess Fest on Saturday, August 15

 

For all Senior High and Junior High Students

 

Bowling Green, KY – “The Movement” at Bowling Green Christian Church announced today that it will be hosting “Mess Fest 2009” for Junior and Senior High students on Saturday, August 15.  Mess Fest’s sole purpose is to ensure that every youth and volunteer get as messy as possible!  It is a chance for us to finally be able to play with our food, by throwing it, crawling through it, and most of all wearing it! Who said that you shouldn’t play with your food? We want it to be the most messed up you’ll EVER be.

 

“We wanted to give youth an opportunity to have fun,” said Jared Graves, one of the event’s organizers. “No preaching, no songs, no praying. Just a whole lot of mess.  We are planning for 150 youth from all over Warren County and surrounding counties. Everyone is invited.”

 

There will be two separate sessions, one for each age group. The junior high will meet from 11:00am-12:30pm, and the senior high will meet from 2:00pm-3:30pm.  Registration will open 30 minutes before each session, and we will begin our festivities promptly.

 

Make sure to wear old clothes, because you will be getting very, very messy!  Also, there will be no foods with peanuts in them at Mess Fest, so if you bring a food item for our giant food fight, please make sure it is free of peanuts!  You may bring the most disgusting mixture of foods possible to contribute to the massive amount of food that will already be waiting for you!

 

In addition to being the messiest you’ve ever been, you will receive a free Mess Fest t-shirt, and other prizes.

 

The festivities will take place at 1912 Smallhouse Road. Registration will be in the parking lot, and all the messiness will be up front for all to see!

 

If you wish to get more information you may e-mail youth@bowlinggreenchristian.org, visit our website www.movementbgcc.blogspot.com, or call us at 270-842-6231.

Back 2 School Bash

We are really looking forward to our annual Back 2 School Bash this Sunday night. We will be meeting from 5-7pm. We will be playing games, grilling out, and hanging out with each other.  Let's get this school year started off right!

Speaking of the school year, we are excited to have kids from 4 different counties, and representatives from 10 different schools as part of the Movement. We hope to expand those numbers and continue to grow. Who would have thought a year ago that we would have had such growth.

Please continue to be in prayer for Mess Fest (we are about a week away). Pray for the volunteers, the day in general, and for all those who are going to visit that day.  We hope to have 150 people for Mess Fest, so let's make it happen!!!

This Sunday, we hope you will join us as we continue our series on Job. We left off with chapter two, and we will be covering quite a bit of ground this Sunday.  We hope you will join us!

8/2 Bankrupt: The Story of Job (Job 1-2)

Every week we will post an outline from our Sunday morning BFC Bible Studies.  This series, beginning on August 2 is covering the life of Job.

Job 1

On earth:

• V. 1-3:  Job known for his wealth.  Being the greatest man meant being the richest of the rich.
•  V. 4-5: He was also a good man, very devoted to God

In Heaven

•  V. 6-7: Satan, the “Adversary” went to and fro on the earth testing God’s people to try to get them to act disobediently, break God’s commandments, etc.
• V. 9-11: Why does Satan say Job is so blessed?  Because he is protected and has everything he could have ever dreamt of. Do we fit the build of the person Satan is talking about here?  We are all “yay God” when things are going good, but when things sour what is our faith like?
• Job was unaware of all this happening

The First Test of Job

• V. 13-17: Oxen, sheep, and camels are all taken from him. Job was losing his material things first.
• V. 18-19: Now Job has lost his family as well. Put yourself in this situation, what would be going through your mind?
•  V. 20-22: Instead what does Job do? It’s easy to sing praises to God, “He gives and takes away, Blessed be the Name”. But it is awfully hard to live it out when it happens to us

Job 2

The Second Test of Job

• V. 1-3: God basically tells Satan I told you so
• V. 4-6: Why does Satan say that Job was still remaining faithful? Because it’s a me first society, and as long as we are not harmed it doesn’t matter.
• V. 7-8: Now Job has been afflicted with sores. We see here that remaining faithful to God is not helping Job, instead it is causing everything to be worse.

JA MOTYER:

• In A Grief Observed, CS Lewis, struggling agonizingly with God (whom at one point he calls ‘the Cosmic Sadist’) in the face of the death of his wife says, ‘Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to be about the consolations of religion, or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.’  We the readers have been let into a little of the secret behind the scenes in the heavenly court. But there is much we do not understand. That is true for Christian faith also. Even though God has disclosed to us much more of his purposes in Christ than Job could even dream of, there is a hidden world of divine purposes of which we know only a part. For us, too, ‘the secret things belong to the Lord our God.’ Faith is learning to trust God in the dark, in unknowing, in apparent failure. Faith is what God gives us to help us live with uncertainties. We can only watch in anguish as Job and those near him, who have nothing to go on but their faith and their experience, struggle with the question of how to keep faith and experience together. The great onslaught of destruction paralyses all platitudes and forces us to the edge of meaning. Are we willing to come and stand there with Job, and with all the Jobs?

Job’s wife

•  See this as the camera view widening.  Now we see others who are affected by all that has gone on.
• “Foolish” actually means having more of a moral deficiency than being unwise.
• What is good about the wife’s complaint? At least she knows it is from God and nothing that they did.
• Job still refuses to sin, even when his wife is out of step with him.

Application:

• What lessons can we learn from this passage?
  

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