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    It's Us: How Can I Sort Out the Issues of My Family Life?: Participant's Guide
    It's Us: How Can I Sort Out the Issues of My Family Life?: Participant's Guide
    It's Us: How Can I Sort Out the Issues of My Family Life?: Participant's Guide
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    It's Us: How Can I Sort Out the Issues of My Family Life?: Participant's Guide

    By Nicole Johnson

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    It’s the people we love the most who have the greatest potential to hurt us. Our relationships with our families are complex and, for many, extremely painful. Whether you have a seemingly happy family or not, the truth is, no family is perfect. 

    But there is good news in spite of the ups and downs of our family lives. God opens wide his arms, welcoming us again and again into His family, His acceptance, and His love. The It's Us study helps you to see this part of God—His fatherly desire to see you whole and healed and restored.

    Featuring "live" dramas from the REVOLVE tour in combination with Bible study, the Reel to Real Interactive Drama-Based Study Series addresses the questions and issues—both series and frivolous—that hit at the heart of teens.

    Designed for individual or group study, the It's Us participant's guide helps individuals and groups explore what’s been exposed through the dramas and dig deeper into how to live differently in this changing world.

    Participant's guide features:

    • Questions, Bible study, and activities for group or individual study
    • Real-life stories from teens
    • Tips for youth group leaders
    • Activies to be artsy and interactive with the topic
    • Resources & itunes list (websites, books, online videos, and music related to the topic)

    For use with the It's Us DVD-Based Study (ISBN 9781418546373).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMay 2, 2011
    ISBN9781418549756
    It's Us: How Can I Sort Out the Issues of My Family Life?: Participant's Guide
    Author

    Nicole Johnson

    Nicole Johnson, author of Fresh Brewed Life, has a uniquely creative voice. As an accomplished writer, speaker, and actor, Nicole has performed in thousands of churches and venues over the last twenty-five years, including more than a decade of touring with the national conference Women of Faith. Nicole lives in Santa Monica, CA with her husband and two children. Nicole writes regularly at www.nicolejohnson.org

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      Book preview

      It's Us - Nicole Johnson

      IT’s

      US.

      How Can I Sort Out

      the Issues of my

      Family Life?

      Participant’s Guide

      A Reel to Real Study

      1

      Nicole Johnson

      Mary E. DeMuth

      2

      © 2011 by Nicole Johnson

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Thomas Nelson, Inc., titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@thomasnelson.com.

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked AMPLIFIED BIBLE are taken from THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT. © 1958 by the Lockman Foundation (used by permission).

      Scripture quotations marked ESV are from THE ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION. © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.

      Scripture quotations marked MSG are from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NCV are taken from THE NEW CENTURY VERSION®. © 2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NKJV are from THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NLT are from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation. © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-4185-4639-7

      Reel to Real: An Interactive Drama-Based Study Series

      It’s Us: How Can I Sort Out the Issues of My Family Life?

      Printed in the United States of America

      11 12 13 14 15 QG 5 4 3 2 1

      contents:

      What is a Reel to Real Study?

      IT’s US. Introduction

      They Drive Me Crazy

      Group Study

      Create: On your own study #1

      Deep: On your own study #2

      Wide: On your own study #3

      Dare: On your own study #4

      Resources & iTunes List

      Packing Your Stuff

      Group Study

      Create: On your own study #1

      Deep: On your own study #2

      Wide: On your own study #3

      Dare: On your own study #4

      Resources & iTunes List

      One Choice

      Group Study

      Create: On your own study #1

      Deep: On your own study #2

      Wide: On your own study #3

      Dare: On your own study #4

      Resources & iTunes List

      Baggage

      Group Study

      Create: On your own study #1

      Deep: On your own study #2

      Wide: On your own study #3

      Dare: On your own study #4

      Resources & iTunes List

      What Is a Reel to Real Study?

      Simply put, it’s what you hold in your hands. A video sketch (reel) and your journey (real). Put those two together and you have a fresh and transforming way of studying the Bible and getting to know God.

      We are so excited you’ve decided to journey alongside us in this adventure called following Jesus. Knowing the current bent toward YouTube, iTunes, and social networking sites, we’ve developed an interactive study based on that reality. You’ll watch a drama, hear from others who are on the journey, and then chat about it with your friends. We’ve provided many different ways for you to grow.

      The sketches you’ll see on the DVD are dramatic vignettes written and directed by Nicole Johnson. Each drama was performed and recorded live at the Revolve Tour and put together for this study as a creative way to look at the issues we face.

      This guide will be your companion as you watch the dramas. The first study is designed for group interaction. Of course, you can always watch the DVD on your own and work your way through the study if you’d like. But we find gathering a group of friends to watch the drama, then discussing it together over popcorn and caffeine makes the learning fun. More people equal more discussion, more insight.

      After the initial watch and discuss, we offer four more studies for you to explore each theme on your own. Like taking a walk in your own woods, you can go as deep as you dare and stay as long as you wish, hopefully emerging at some point with a clearer understanding of how you can live differently in this changing world.

      These personal studies will not be your typical Bible study where you take a crusty ballpoint and fill in long blanks with short answers. We’ll ask you probing questions that definitely don’t have a set answer. You’ll tap into your creativity. We’ll push you (gently!) toward thinking about the world outside your front door. We’ll start you with a truth, but you’ll end with a dare. Then we’ll resource you with cool sites, books, and songs that can help you further your journey.

      It’s our hope that by watching this DVD, digesting it with friends, and doing some thinking and wrestling on your own, you’ll finish the study a little different from how you were when you started. More confident of who you are. More able to open your heart to who God is and willing to be surprised by His extravagant, countercultural love. Released to be who He created you to be. And full of gratitude for all He has done (and will continue do) inside you and through you.

      The world needs your heart. Your real heart. Not some phony replica of what you think your heart should look like—a real, unique heart. Our desire

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