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    The Wesley Challenge Youth Study Book: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith
    The Wesley Challenge Youth Study Book: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith
    The Wesley Challenge Youth Study Book: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith
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    The Wesley Challenge Youth Study Book: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith

    By Chris Folmsbee

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    How can we introduce younger lay people to the practical and accessible Wesley? In The Wesley Challenge small groups or whole churches will spend three weeks working through 21 questions that will engage their physical, spiritual and emotional lives and their relationship with God and others.


    With fast-paced emphasis on graphics and short content bits, the challenge will inspire us to a new kind of commitment—one that is more authentic, vulnerable and soul shaping resulting in thousands of people who have a renewed passion to discover deeper levels of commitment to God and others.

    This Youth Study Book takes the ideas presented in the 21 Day Challenge and interprets them for young people grades 6-12. Can be used with the adult-level DVD.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781501832994
    The Wesley Challenge Youth Study Book: 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith
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    Chris Folmsbee

    Chris Folmsbee has served as a youth pastor for nearly 15 years, and now serves as a volunteer youth worker in his local church. He currently leads Barefoot Ministries, a youth ministry training and publishing company located in Kansas City, and is on staff with Youthfront. Chris is the author of several books including his most recent, Story, Signs, and Sacred Rhythms: A Narrative Approach to Youth Ministry. He lives in Overland Park, Kansas, with his wife, Gina, and their three children, Megan, Drew, and Luke.

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      The Wesley Challenge Youth Study Book - Chris Folmsbee

      INTRODUCTION

      My teenage son is an expert at video games. He didn’t get to be an expert by playing one game, one time, if you know what I mean. No, he plays a lot. In order to master a craft or skill, we must do three things— practice, practice, and practice—and we must be disciplined to do it regularly because we only get better at something when we put in the practice time. For instance, we won’t be able to do the hard math if we don’t first master multiplication tables. We can’t make the winning basket if we haven’t been doing our free-throw drills. We can’t perform our part in the school play if we haven’t first memorized our lines.

      Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to develop certain practices—or habits—that help me grow in my relationship with God, my relationship with myself, and my relationship with others. I’ve learned that whatever it is I’m practicing—whether prayer, quiet time, reading my Bible—I have to make the time, again and again, in order to make it a habit and a way of life. Simply put, I can’t just talk about doing these things—I have to actually do it.

      This short book is intended to help you do just that—to help you practice the spiritual habits, practices, and actions that can lead you toward a vibrant Christian life. For the next twenty-one days, I’m asking you to explore and consider the twenty-one questions that John and Charles Wesley asked their fellow believers nearly three hundred years ago and to discover how these questions apply to your own life as well.

      The 21-Day Challenge

      This 21-day challenge is about opening your mind, your heart, and your hands to develop a lifestyle of practicing the disciplines of our Christian faith. The point of these practices is not to make you appear super holy, but to be Jesus’ hands and feet in our world. Research shows that it takes twenty-one days to develop a habit, so after sticking with this for three weeks, my hope is that you will have formed a deeper relationship with God and will continue on your life’s journey to get to know God more and more.

      Over the next twenty-one days, we’ll take Wesley’s twenty-one questions and ask you to reflect on some meanings behind the questions. Though you can certainly read this book on your own, I hope you’ll choose to participate in this 21-day challenge with a group, or with some friends, for I am convinced that discipleship happens best in community.

      To the Leader

      This book can be read by an individual as a daily devotional, and it can also be used in a group setting. Each week consists of seven daily devotionals, followed by these sections, which can be used in group settings.

      Going Deeper

      Here you’ll find more devotional thoughts and Scriptures that complement the main text for the chapter. This section also includes some reflection thoughts and questions around the week’s theme. If you’ve completed the devotions during the week, it might be helpful to look over this section right before you go to meet with your group.

      Sharing Thoughts and Feelings

      These group questions can serve as an icebreaker to open your group time together. They will also allow anyone who hasn’t read the daily devotionals to be drawn into the conversation.

      Doing Things Together

      Each weekly session concludes with two fifteen-minute activities designed to engage your group. Supplies are minimal, but be sure that someone is in charge of bringing what you’ll need for the activities. Most of the activities wrap up with one or two additional discussion questions or a look back at the text.

      Listening for God

      To end your session, a prayer is included. You and the group members can use the prayer as is or substitute a prayer of your own.

      Week 1

      RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD: AN UPWARD FOCUS

      I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing.

      John 15:5-8 MSG

      Week 1

      RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD: AN UPWARD FOCUS

      If someone were to ask you, What’s a relationship with God like? what would you say? How would you respond?

      For many of us, the idea of having a relationship with God may feel weird or strange, like something that can’t really be done. I mean, God’s up there, and we’re down here, and how exactly are we supposed to know who God is and what God wants? And how is that relationship supposed to affect our lives anyway?

      The good news is this: A relationship with God is available to

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