Background Passage: Jeremiah 22:1–25:38

Lesson Passage: Jeremiah 22:13-21

1. What Are You Building Your Reputation On? (Jer. 22:13-14,17)
2. What Does It Mean to Know the Lord? (Jer. 22:15-16)
3. What Are the Consequences of Self-Indulgence? (Jer. 22:18-19)
4. Is Your Behavior in Line? (Jer. 22:20-21)

BIBLICAL TRUTH
The Lord expects His people to demonstrate a right relationship with Him by treating others fairly and compassionately.

a CONNECT lesson

[Evangelism Lesson]

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Freedom Gained (Gal. 4:1-7)
Forgiveness Received (1 John 1:5-9)
Love Embraced (1 John 3:1-3)

Background Passages:
Galatians 4:1-7; 1 John 1:5-10; 3:1-3

Focal Passages:
Galatians 4:1-7; 1 John 1:5-9; 3:1-3

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about how to experience the freedom that God provides and be adopted into His family.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you become a member of God’s family by placing your faith in Jesus Christ.

Background Passage: Jeremiah 19:1–21:14

Lesson Passages: Jeremiah 19:3-6; 21:1-5,11-12

1. Spiritual Unfaithfulness (Jer. 19:3-6)
2. Spiritual Blindness (Jer. 21:1-5)
3. Social Injustice (Jer. 21:11-12)

BIBLICAL TRUTH
The Lord expects His people
to recognize and submit to His
discipline in their lives.

LIFE GOAL
To help adults submit to the
Lord’s discipline

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Forgetting Faith (Gal. 3:1-3)
Pursuing a Religious Checklist (Gal 3:10-14)
Embracing Faith in Christ (Gal. 3:19-26)

Background Passage:
Galatians 3:1-26

Focal Passages:
Galatians 3:1-3,10-14,19-26

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson looks at the dangers of a legalistic approach to the Christian life and the superiority of grace.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you understand the benefits of grace and avoid legalism in your walk with Christ.

Background Passage: Jeremiah 16:1–18:23
Lesson Passage: Jeremiah 18:1-15

LESSON PASSAGE OUTLINE
1. Appreciate the Lord’s Patience (Jer. 18:1-4)
2. Appreciate the Lord’s Power (Jer. 18:5-10)
3. Amend Your Ways (Jer. 18:11-15)

BIBLICAL TRUTH
The Lord is willing and able to remake flawed lives.

LIFE GOAL
To help adults show they appreciate the Lord’s willingness to remake flawed lives

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Self-Indulgence Described (2 Pet. 2:10b-14)
Self-Indulgence Rebuked (2 Pet. 2:15-19)
Self-Indulgence Rejected (Phil. 3:17-21)

Background Passages:
Philippians 3:17-21; 2 Peter 2:4-22

Focal Passages:
Philippians 3:17-21; 2 Peter 2:10b-19

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about how to overcome ungodly, self-serving, enslaving, and ultimately destructive behavior that mimics freedom.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you to avoid the slavery of a self-indulgent lifestyle.

a SERVE lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Grace Compels Generosity (Luke 19:1-10)
Love Requires Generosity (1 John 3:16-18)
Ministry Is Fueled by Generosity (2 Cor. 8:3-4)

Background Passages:
Luke 19:1-10; 2 Corinthians 8–9; 1 John 3:16-18

Focal Passages:
Luke 19:1-10; 2 Corinthians 8:3-4; 1 John 3:16-18

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson explores reasons believers are to be generous givers.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you develop a lifestyle of generosity.

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages
Godliness—Companion of Contentment (1 Tim. 6:6-8)
Greed—Enemy of Contentment (1 Tim. 6:9-12)
Faith—Key to Contentment (Phil. 4:10-20)

Background Passages:
Philippians 4:10-20; 1 Timothy 6:1-19

Focal Passages:
Philippians 4:10-20; 1 Timothy 6:6-12

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson examines how to find real contentment.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you find contentment by focusing your passions and goals on godly concerns rather than on material things.

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Collect the Right Treasure (Matt. 6:19-21)
Select the Right Master (Matt. 6:22-24)
Reject Sinful Anxiety (Matt. 6:25-34)

Bible Passage:
Matthew 6:19-34

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about priorities and the real measure of wealth.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you understand what real wealth is, value it above material wealth, and seek to accumulate it.

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
God Owns Everything (1 Chron. 29:10-11)
God Gives Us What We Have (1 Chron. 29:12-16)
God Examines Our Hearts (1 Chron. 29:17-20)

Background Passage:
1 Chronicles 29:1-20

Focal Passage:
1 Chronicles 29:10-20

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about recognizing God’s ownership of everything we have.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you to put possessions in perspective by recognizing that God is the Owner and Giver of everything you have.

a SERVE lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Take the Risk (Acts 9:26-27)
Involve Others (Acts 11:19-26)
Recognize Potential (Acts 15:36-41)

Background Passages:
Acts 9:1-31; 11:19-30; 15:36-41

Focal Passages:
Acts 9:26-27; 11:19-26; 15:36-41

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about believers’ investing themselves in and mentoring other believers.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you recognize the importance of investing yourself in others and learn ways to do so.

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Recognize Your Accountability to God (1 Cor. 4:1-5)
Hold Uncompromisingly to the Gospel (Gal. 1:6-10)
Live Out Your Devotion to the Church (1 Thess. 2:7-12)

Background Passages:
1 Corinthians 3:4–4:5; Galatians 1:6-12; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Focal Passages:
1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Galatians 1:6-10; 1 Thessalonians 2:7-12

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about believers’ pursuing God’s agenda by recognizing their accountability to God, holding uncompromisingly to the gospel, and living out their devotion to the church.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you adopt and pursue God’s agenda.

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Have a Heart for God (Ezra 7:1a,6-10)
Build a Reputation of Integrity (Ezra 7:25-28)
Identify with the People You Lead (Ezra 9:4-6; 10:10-12)

Background Passage:
Ezra 7:1–10:44

Focal Passages:
Ezra 7:1a,6-10,25-28; 9:4-6; 10:10-12

What This Lesson Is About:
People lead from the essence of who they are. Leading successfully involves walking with God in such a way that both unbelievers and believers recognize the person’s integrity and trust the person to lead.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can challenge you to walk with God in such a way that both unbelievers and believers recognize your integrity and trust you to lead.

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Recognize Your God-Given Potential for Influence (Esth. 4:13-14)
Realize that God Is the Ultimate Influencer (Esth. 4:15-17)
Use Your Influence in Godly Ways (Esth. 8:3-8)

Background Passage:
Esther 1–10

Focal Passages:
Esther 4:13-17; 8:3-8

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about leading by exercising godly influence.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you recognize you have influence and determine to use your influence for God’s purposes and in godly ways.

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Accept Your Responsibility (Josh. 1:1-5)
Hear God’s Command (Josh. 1:6-9)
Act Courageously (Josh. 1:10-11,16-18)

Background Passage:
Joshua 1:1-18

Focal Passages:
Joshua 1:1-11,16-18

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about identifying and overcoming the fears that prevent us from being the spiritual leaders God wants us to be.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you learn God’s ways to overcome the fears that prevent you from being the spiritual leader God wants you to be.

[Evangelism Lesson]

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
An Empty Tomb (John 20:1-10)
A Temporary Grief (John 20:11-15)
A Joyful Recognition (John 20:16-18)

Bible Passage:
John 20:1-18

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about the ultimate solution to grief: victorious life through Christ’s victory over death.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can lead you to place your hope in the living Christ who conquered death for you.

Pastor Ron and his wife Delaine will begin a new Young Adult Class (ages 18-35) on Sunday, May 1st.

The young adults will meet in the first classroom on the right in the education wing.

a SERVE lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Know the Source of Comfort (2 Cor. 1:1-3)
Be a Channel of God’s Comfort (2 Cor. 1:4-7)
Offer Comfort Through Prayer (2 Cor. 1:8-11)

Bible Passage:
2 Corinthians 1:1-11

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about the support we can give to others who are grieving.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you minister to those who grieve out of your own experience of God’s comfort and through your prayers.

a CONNECT lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Rejoice in God’s Faithfulness (Ps. 31:7-10)
Trust in God’s Power (Ps. 31:14-16)
Express Your Love for God (Ps. 31:21-24)

Background Passage:
Psalm 31:1-24

Focal Passages:
Psalm 31:7-10,14-16,21-24

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about the presence of a powerful and faithful God, whom we can trust even in the midst of difficult circumstances.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you acknowledge God’s constant presence in spite of circumstances and feelings.

a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
An Intellectual Approach to Grief (John 11:20-27)
An Emotional Approach to Grief (John 11:32-36)
The Supernatural Approach to Grief (John 11:43-44)

Background Passage:
John 11:1-44

Focal Passages:
John 11:20-27,32-36,43-44

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson looks at different human responses to loss and the hope Jesus gives to believers who grieve.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can lead adults to discover that the grief they experience can be grounded in hope.