This Week # 3-25

This week in OFF ROAD we finished our Sex/ Dating series with a biblical perspective on dating. As we told the students, dating isn’t. “just something to do,” but dating is a BIG DEAL. Why is it such a big deal? Well that question was answered throughout the lesson.
There are 3 big things in our life that belong to God: our heart, our body, and our relationship with Him. Dating distracts or takes away from each of these areas if we are not ready to date (An guess what… as a Junior higher, or high schooler, you are not ready to date!!!). If we are dating, and our heart belongs to God (Prov. 4:20-23), we are giving part of our heart to another person. Dating is a distraction from God, especially when it serves no purpose in JH and HS. If our body is God’s then we should be treating everyone’s body like it is God’s (1 Cor. 6:9). Is being in a dating relationship going to lead us to giving our bodies over to God? Lastly, our relationship with god should be number one. If we are dating someone we are replacing God with them. We are instead finding our identity (Luke 10:27) in them instead of God. If we want to have a healthy dating relationship we must first have a number one relationship established with God.

This Week # 3-24

OFF ROAD this week was wild, crazy and a ton of fun as we had our first Saturday night only service!!! We kicked off the 2 part Sex and Dating series and it went really well. I talked to the guys about purity of the mind and body and how giving that away to either a real person or porn is not what God created us for and is extremely detrimental to them. Christina talked to the girls about “priceless purity.” and how important it is to hold onto that for their husband. I hope that you can follow up with your child, talking to them about this sensitive issue. Here are some questions to guide your discussion. Remember, if they don’t have a safe place to talk about this stuff, the will talk about it in an unsafe place.

(Genesis 1:27-28, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:3-4)

What kind of sexual stuff do you see people around you (on Tv/ in school) getting into?

What temptations are around you?

How do you handle the temptations around you?

Why do you think these temptations are so great?

What is the outcome of giving into these temptations?

Why does God not want you to give into these temptations?

Do you feel comfortable talking to ME about this stuff? Why/ Why not? Or who can you talk to?