2/28 Junior & Senior High Sunday School "Ethos-Knowing Your Mission"

Senior High-Jared Graves, Junior High- Sandra Baker

Activity

Review Ethos: Knowing the facts, knowing your story, knowing your audience

This week we are talking about knowing your mission. All of what we have talked about is of no importance unless you have a purpose for your activity.  You have to set goals, you have to have a reason for why do you what you do.

Lesson

Everyone turn to 1 Peter chapter four. We are going to read the first eleven verses today.

Read 1 Peter 4:1

Does this mean that we are all guaranteed suffering?

Could this verse go towards answering the question, “Why do bad things happen to good people?”

Read 1 Peter 4:2-5

When you become a Christian, life changes. Your friends that you used to have now reject you because you wont’ do the same things that they do. Peter urges people not to let others drag you down to their level?

How does Peter know that this danger is out there? (He was pulled down by Jewish-Christians to discriminate against those Gentiles who were becoming Christians. Paul had to have a “come to Jesus” meeting with Peter to show the error in Peter’s way.)

Read 1 Peter 4:6

How does this apply to the following situations?

· Homosexuality?

· Abortion?

· Assisted suicide?

· Gossip?

· Lying?

· Drinking?

Read 1 Peter 4:7-11

This is Peter’s charge to his readers, and to us today. This is our mission.

Let’s dissect the mission to see if we are doing a good job doing it.

Read through the mission and measure on a level between 1-10 on a personal and youth program level.

Application

Do you wake up each morning and make a list of things that you need to do that day? What if we woke up each day with a reminder of what God has called us to do? How would that change our ways of thinking and how we live our lives?