| Core Lesson 1: Moving into the Neighborhood--Designed to help students see clearly how Jesus' Incarnation inspires and shapes world evangelism efforts. Core Lesson 2: Get Connected--Enables teens to grasp how "incarnational" must define their relationships. Core Lesson 3: Don't be Whale Vomit!--Helps students learn how to imitate Christ's model of incarnational ministry. Core Lesson 4: Weighing the Cost--This lesson's goal is to have group members commit to cross-cultural incarnational ministry, even after weighing the potentially high cost. Core Lesson 5: Going Through the Motions?--Motivates teens to make a decision to be authentic in global, incarnational ministry. Topical Lesson 1: Building a Better Bridge--Helps teens understand that being incarnational means knowing Christ, understanding the world around them, and bridging the two. Topical Lesson 2: Loving the Unlovable--Emphasizes that incarnational ministry begins and ends with God-given love. Topical Lesson 3: It Takes All Kinds--Points out that there are certain aspects of Christianity that are non-negotiable and that those aspects have nothing to do with culture. Topical Lesson 4: How Not to Be a Missionary--Designed to help students understand that being God's witness means they must leave their comfort zones. Topical Lesson 5: A Suffering Love--Emphasizes the importance and necessity of the endurance of suffering for the sake of Christ. Topical Lesson 6: Will the Real Jesus Stand Up?--Stresses the fact that Christianity's belief that God reconciled the world to himself through the sacrifice of his Son distinguishes it from other religions. Topical Lesson 7: Disciplined Reflection--Designed to help students understand that they need to seriously reflect upon why they are doing incarnational ministry and what difference it's making in their and other's lives. |