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8/12/2019 LTCU 2013 Student Notebook INSPIRE

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They TALK to Him through prayer.

They HEAR from Him through the Bible.

- Reading Gods Word

Reading it(get a good, easy-to-read translation)

Listening to it (YouVersion app, Biblegateway.com/audio)

- Studying Gods Word

Asking: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Recommended Tools:

A Good Study Bible (Ryrie, NIV Study Bible, etc)

A Good Commentary (Bible Knowledge Commentary, biblestudytools.com)

A Good Concordance (Strongs Exhaustive Concordance,

biblestudytools.com)


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- Remember the Triangle of Truth when it comes to the Bible

1. Devotional: Reading the Bible to understand and apply it. This is the most

basic level of enjoying Gods Word and should be the basis for all of our

reading and studying of the Bible. (Dont ask what the passage means to

you, ask what it means foryou.)

2. Exegetical: The word exegete means to draw out the meaning of a

certain passage of Scripture. This is when you lean hard into Bible study

tools and the Who? What? When? Where? Why? questions to understand

a passage in its context to draw out the timeless truth from it and apply it to

your life.

3. Theological: This third level of engaging with Scripture is the most technical.

It is taking the truths youve learned about one of the following areas in your

study of the Bible and placing it in one of the following categories:

Theological

Exegetical

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Bibliology (Gods Word) Theology Proper (God)

Christology (Jesus) Pneumatology (The Spirit)

Soteriology (salvation) Ecclesiology (church)

Angelology (angels) Eschatology (future)

TableActivity-Look at one of the following passages:1) What does it mean for you?

2) Answer Exegetical questions.3) Place it in a Theological category.

Easy:

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all

your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments

that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Deuteronomy 6:4-6

Intermediate:

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished

by God, stricken by him, and aficted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he

was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and

by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has

turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:4-6


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Difcult:

Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the

multitudes of heaven standing on his right and on his left. And the Lord said, Who will

entice Ahab king of Israel into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?

One suggested this, and another that. Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before

the Lord and said, I will entice him. By what means? the Lord asked. I will go and

be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets, he said. You will succeed in

enticing him, said the Lord. Go and do it. So now the Lord has put a deceiving

spirit in the mouths of these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for

you. 2 Chronicles 18:18-22

Recommended Resource :

Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock Gods Wordby Rick Warren

How to Understand Your Bibleby T. Norton Sterrett and Richard L. Schultz

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart

Experience Your Bibleby Josh and Sean McDowell

Alpha X Leaders stayin the presence of Jesusthrough meditating and marinating.

Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away,

calling it the tent of meeting. Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of

meeting outside the camp. And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose

and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. As

Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance,

while the LORD spoke with Moses. Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing

at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their

tent. The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then

Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the

tent. Exodus 33:7-11


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Like Joshua, refuse to leave the tenthow?

Meditate on GODS WORD through memorizing verses.

- Why memorize?

It helps us radiate throughout the day as we meditate on God.

I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. Psalm 119:15

It helps us defeat sins that we are struggling within our lives.

I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm

119:11

It enables us to defeat Satan and his lies.

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of

God. Ephesians 6:17

- How to memorize

New School: Download Memory App (Flash Cards + in App store)

Old School:3x5 cards (one verse on one side, Bible reference on the other)

PersonalActivity-Memorize this verse this week:

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you

will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the

ends of the earth.Acts 1:8


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- What to memorize

Verses that jump off the page to you.

Verses that will help you overcome specic sins.

Lust: 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

Anger: Ephesians 4:26,27

Gossip/Slander: Ephesians 4:29-32

Verses that will help you share your faith:

G:Psalm 101:3; Genesis 1:27

O: Romans 3:23; Revelation 21:27

S:Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5

P:1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Romans 5:8E:John 3:16; Romans 4:5

L:John 10:10; John 10:28


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Alpha X Leadersyieldto the presence of Jesusuntil they are conformed to His image.We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from

seeing the end of what was passing away. But their minds were made dull, for to this day

the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because

only in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their

hearts. But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the

Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled

faces contemplate the Lords glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:13-18

Our transformation is INTERNAL, not external.

Our transformation is PERMANENT, not fading.

Our time in Gods presence can be UNLIMITED, not limited.


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Inspire Others!

Question: How do you inspire others to live THE Cause?

Answer: You get them there through real stories!

Inspire others to live THE Cause throughreal

storiesand

raw truth!

Why do REAL STORIES inspire?

- Because that is the way God has wired us.

Jesus told them a story. Luke 18:1


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- Because we see ourselves in them.

To some who were condent of their own righteousness and looked down on

everyone else, Jesus told this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray,

one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and

prayed: God, I thank you that I am not like other peoplerobbers, evildoers,

adulterersor even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of

all I get. But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to

heaven, but beat his breast and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I tell

you that this man, rather than the other, went home justied before God. For all

those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselveswill be exalted. Luke 18:9-14

- Because it shows that the impossible is possible.

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak,

Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through

faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised;

who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the ames, and escaped the

edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who becamepowerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead,

raised to life again. Hebrews 11:32-35

How do you tell a story that GETS THEM THERE?

- Paint a 3-D Picture (sight, smell, etc).

- Make sure they feel the tension.


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TableActivity-Pick a story that could inspire others to share their faith (fromyour life, church history or the Bible) and choose a storyteller. (We will have that

storyteller go to a different table to tell the story.)

RAW TRUTH (3 Biblical truths that inspire teens to share their faith).

- A Call from above.

- A Whisper from within.

- A Scream from beneath.


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Oil and Fire

OilYou have been anointed by God toaccomplish something significant.

The word of the LORD came to me, saying, Before I formed you in the womb I knew

you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

Alas, Sovereign LORD, I said, I do not know how to speak; I am too young. But the

LORD said to me, Do not say, I am too young. You must go to everyone I send you toand say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will

rescue you, declares the LORD. Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my

mouth and said to me, I have put my words in your mouth. Jeremiah 1:4-9

What is this ANOINTING?

- It is the calling God has for you.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you

apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:4

I appointed you as a ___________________________________.

- It is the good work God has prepared for you.

For we are Gods handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which

God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10


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Fan into ame your PASSION for sharing the gospel.

For this reason I remind you to fan into ame the gift of God, which is in you through

the laying on of my hands. 2 Timothy 1:6

Fan into ame your passion for THE Cause!

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations. Matthew 28:19

- Our vision for THE Cause: every teenager at every one of the 67,342 high

schools and middle schools in America hearing the gospel from a teenager

they know and respect.

- Our strategy for THE Cause:Making disciples who make disciples through

the Get Multi-PLIED Strategy until every teenager hears.


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If you got intentional about mobilizing your Cause Crew and other Christians at your

school to reach the lost for Christ, how many teenagers do you think you could reach

for Jesus?

How much bigger do you think the youth groups in your area would grow if you and

your Cause Crew intentionally shared the gospel, discipled the new believers and

equipped Christians to share their faith?

10%, 20%, 50%, 100% other?___

After you graduate (college, the work force, etc.)?

How do you think God can use you to continue to advance the gospel and Lead THE

Cause?


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In your career 20 years from now?How do you think God can use you to advance the gospel and Lead THE Cause?

(Write a possible scenario.)

What is that fire inourbones for THE Cause?

Imagination questions:

How would our community be different if THE Cause was thriving on every campus

(good, bad and ugly)?

How would our youth group be different?


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Geographic questions:What schools are represented right here in our group (those of us attending LTCU)?

What schools are represented in our entire youth group (those not attending LTCU)?

What is our Cause Turf (streets to the north, south, east and west) of the community wewant to claim for THE Cause?

The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboringpeoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along

the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the

Euphrates. See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the

LORD swore he would give to your fathersto Abraham, Isaac and Jacoband to their

descendants after them. Deuteronomy 1:6-8


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Heart questions:Do we believe that we can be used by God to reach every teen at every school in our

community with the gospel?

How can we fan the ames in our hearts into an unquenchable inferno so we dont shut

up?

Strategic questions:

How do we inspire the rest of our youth group to get on board with THE Cause?


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How do we inspire the rest of our church to get on board with THE Cause?

How do we inspire other youth groups, campus ministries, etc to get on board with

THE Cause?

Copy some of your conclusions on to your Strategic Plan Worksheet.


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MYNotes... Strategic Plan Worksheet

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