James: Parent Night

Welcome

welcome everyone

pray

get started

Game

Rock, Hotdog, Flamingo

2 or three rounds

first handout skittles and then handout a hat for the last round

Announcements

selling hats for $20 CASH ONLY

SYATP sep 23

5th Quarters

DNOW Jan 15-18 (adding another day)

with fbc Neches again

Mission and Vision

Vision: Students living in community, devoted to following the ways and practices of Jesus

Mission: Equipping students to understand the Bible, Belong in real community, and Become more like Jesus everyday

BIBLE BELONGING BECOMING

Normal Wednesday( No slide)

food

game

announcements

lesson

small groups

small group leaders

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Got questions?

text the number whenever you have questions and the last wednesday of each month we will answer them instead of small groups.

Fall Series

James Practical Kingdom Living.

James

Reason

Sometimes we let faith becomes intellectual and emotional and interior but forget how practical and life changing it it supposed to be. Faith becomes a quiet time or prayer at the beginning of the day but is forgotten in the hurry of school, sports, band and life.

Some of what we read in the bible is hard to translate into real life living.

James is not that. It has stirring theological depth but clearly shows us real world changes. A central claim of the book is that faith without works is dead.

James is called the proverbs of the NT

We will see that James and the rest of scripture should change how we live each and every day. Faith is not a thought experiment or an emotional feeling but an active and living response to the salvation of your soul by the blood of Jesus Christ.

We will see that James wants what changed our heart to change our mind, heart, speech, and action

Context

The church was centrally located in Jerusalem but through persecution was spread out to different cities because Christians were forced to flee and where they fled they brought the gospel with them.

When Paul writes a letter it is usually to a church with a specific issue

James is not doing that he is writing to a broad group and writing for typical challenges that a believer would face

Author

James, brother of Jesus, leader of the church in Jerusalem.

some of what we will cover

mission projects

I want to do more of these!

James 1:1 “This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing to the “twelve tribes”—Jewish believers scattered abroad. Greetings!”

What we want to noctice here is how James describes himself. He has been leading the church for decades and is brother to Jesus himself. Yet he calls himself slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Already in the opening we see the humility showing through and see how we can put this in practice

James can claim high and lofty titles in the church but choses to be seen as a slave and servant. He more highly valued being a slave of God then he did a leader of humans.

What do you more highly value. Your position with God or man?

Parents

Thank you for letting your kids come here. I highly value each and everyone of them.

we are going to try limit phones a lot this semester. I think they are a huge distraction to your students ability to connect with people.

I want to stress that what I do on wednesdays and sundays is designed to compliment what you are doing at home.

You are your students primary discipler. not me. I want to come along side you and help as best as i can but one question we should all ask ourselves is what are we leading our kids to?

I have been thinking about this a lot with my newborn daughter I still have a while until she is youth but it is a needed question.

Do you have any questions?

What is one thing you think students need right now?

What is one thing you think students need to hear right now?