Instruction Manual: Keeping Faith

High School Youth Group
For the week of April 12th, 2015

This Week's Topic
"Instruction Manual: Keeping Faith"

Theme Verse
"Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well,  holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith."
1 Timothy 1:18-19

This week Sam will be kicking off our new series on the spiritual life. Through this series we will discover how God transforms us into the image of his Son, Jesus.


Take advantage of our weekly family conversations. In fact, studies show that if your family talks about faith in the home, it is more likely that your teen will keep their faith once they graduate from high school. You can uses these short reflections and questions to talk about faith on a walk, in the car on the way to practice or school, or at the dinner table. I pray that your student and family will discover how God can shape your spiritual journeys together. 

Day 1 
Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:12-14

1. What was your high and low today?
2. Read the scripture passage together
3. Paul's encounter with God transformed him. How has God been transformational in your life? (Have each person in your family share.)
4. Pray for each other

Day 2
Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:15-17

1. What was your high and low today? 
2. Read the scripture passage together
3. What did God show others through how he transformed Paul's life? 
4. How can God use you to reveal himself to other?
5. Who do you hope comes to know God?
6. Pray for that person(s).

Day 3 
Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:18-19

1. What was your high and low today? 
2. Read the scripture passage together.
3. What stands out to you about Paul's charge to Timothy? 
4. What was the result of some rejecting the faith? 
5. What can you do as a family to help each other keep the faith? 
6. Pray for each other