Re-Create Study Guide

Ron Luce

Description

Parents, pastors, youth pastors, and all concerned adults will welcome this 6 week small group Bible study guide. Together with the companion ReCreate Your World DVD, this guide will bring hope into the lives of those who dare to step out of the status quo of quiet Christianity and make a massive difference by dreaming and using their God given creativity to reshape culture. Dare to dream of what could happen when we all choose to recreate!

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 27 août 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781441225429
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

2008 Ron Luce. Published in association with the literary agency of Winters, King and Associates, Tulsa, OK.
Published by Revell a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.revellbooks.com
Revell edition published 2014
ISBN 978-1-4412-2542-9
Previously published by Regal Books
Ebook edition originally created 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version ®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
Other version used: NASB —Scripture taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
CONTENTS

How to Use this Study
Week 1
1. Generation Out of Control
2. Are We Not Dreamers?
3. The Insidious Grip of Culture
4. How We Let the Culture into Our Homes
Week 2
5. A Cultural Dashboard for Your Family
6. Convenient Parenting = Brainwashed Kids
7. Who Owns Their Heart?
8. Windows to the Heart
9. Communicating Your Values
10. A Message in a Memory
Week 3
11. A Strong Marriage = Secure Kids
12. No Substitute for One on One
13. Your Kids Trump Your Career and Ministry
14. Show Me Da Money, and I’ll Show You What You Value
15. Teaching Your Kids to Be Dreamers
Week 4
16. One Generation Away from Extinction
17. Creating a Church Where Teens Want to Come
18. Dreamers for God
19. Anatomy of a NextGen Church
20. Churches that Break the Mold: Double Vision Stories
21. Dreamers Always Win (the Culture War)
Week 5
22. Paralyzed by the Ordinary
23. Winning the PR War
24. Who Told Us to Shut Up?
25. Making Creative Noise
Week 6
26. Teens Who Are Changing Their Generation
Conclusion: On the Other Side of Your Dream
HOW TO USE THIS STUDY
This guide gives you information on how to break down the 26 chapters and conclusion of ReCreate to create a dynamic six-week study. Some chapters are shorter and easier to breeze through, while others offer opportunity for deeper reflection. Leaders, you might have your group use the questions in the workbook simply for group discussion or you might encourage members to write in each answer on their own. You decide the key points you want to discuss, pray through and act on each week.
WEEK 1 Read chapters 1–4 of RECREATE
Complete the corresponding chapters in the study guide. End your meeting by doing the Getting Creative section of chapter 1 in the study guide. Discuss, and then commit to your group the one thing you are going to do from the Getting Creative section in chapter 4 of the study guide.
WEEK 2 Read chapters 5–10 of RECREATE
Complete the corresponding chapters in the study guide. Have some (or all) in your group share their testimonies per the God’s Heart for You section in chapter 5 of the study guide. At the end of the meeting, pair up to pray for each other per the God’s Heart for You section in chapter 7 of the study guide.
WEEK 3 Read chapters 11–15 of RECREATE
Complete the corresponding chapters in the study guide. Taking direction from the Getting Creative section in chapter 14 of the study guide, plan a game night with your small group. Don’t forget to include the kids!
Week 4 Read chapters 16–21 in RECREATE
Complete the chapters in the study guide. Decide how your group will act on the project given in the Getting Creative section in chapter 17 of the study guide. End with powerful intercession for the youth of your church.
WEEK 5 Read chapters 22–25 of RECREATE
Complete the corresponding chapters in the study guide. Decide how you’re going to act on the challenge in the God’s Heart for You section in chapter 23 to plan a time to fast with your small group, your spouse or your church and have a time of corporate prayer. Also take time to discuss and pray about the Getting Creative section in chapter 24 of the study guide.
WEEK 6 Read chapter 26 and the conclusion of RECREATE
Complete chapter 26 of the study guide. Do the conclusion of the study guide, "On the Other Side of Your Dream," together. Decide how and when you will do the Getting Creative section of the conclusion as a group.
WEEK 1
1
GENERATION OUT OF CONTROL
Have you picked up a newspaper, gone online or flipped on the television today?
If so, did you skim over the deluge of shocking headlines pop icons committing suicide or getting committed to rehab; underage actresses arrested for driving under the influence; another student turning a gun on his school or on his unsuspecting town? Did you just skim the headline, or did you dig deeper to find out the story? And did you ever stop to wonder why? What’s causing this kind of chaos, what damage is it doing to your kids and to an entire generation and what can be done to stop it?
As Ron Luce writes in ReCreate, behind so much of this madness is a massive pop-culture machine. This machine "devours [celebrities] and then spits them out. Lives are destroyed within the machine, as well as influenced by the product of the machine. Then the machine rinses and repeats, looking for the next product to sell and the next person to buy it."
And each life consumed adds more fuel to the fire. "This machine is hungry," Ron says. "It must be fed. It needs more stars to control and exploit . . . They also need fans to sell to. In either case, they do not care about the ultimate effect their machine has on its victims." Who’s next?
So, who, you might be asking, are the "they" that comprise this machine? They’re the makers and marketers of the media, entertainment and fashion industries, people caught up in a machine of their own making who, in a bid to make more money, sell products and people to a gullible public specifically, a young, unguided public that’s entranced by all that Hollywood has to offer.
But there’s someone else, someone much greater and more sinister than any moviemaker or MTV executive. He’s the machine’s ultimate taskmaster and the brutal slave driver behind pop culture’s most powerful men and women.
Look up Ephesians 6:12 and 1 Peter 5:8. According to these verses, who’s the mastermind behind "the machine"?
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If Satan is the one with the agenda, what should be our first line of defense against ungodly media and culture?
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Look again at 1 Peter 5:8. What, in your own words, does it mean to be "alert" to what’s going on in pop culture?
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The Branding Age: What Are Your Kids Buying (and Buying Into)?
What are your thoughts when you hear of Viacom boldly proclaiming, "We don’t advertise to this generation; we own this generation"? Does it stir up a holy anger in you to rescue kids (and perhaps yourself ) out of such bondage? Ron points out that the machine thrives by making money off the kids it "provides products" for unconcerned about how those products may influence or harm those who it is selling to. Such products could be video games, TV shows, music, movies, magazines, clothing and the icons featured in them.
What age is considered the "branding age"?
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Think of the teens and preteens in your family or life. What are they interested in? Do you notice any particular patterns forming in what products and brands they like or anything they have to have or any celebrity they have to keep up on?
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Which of the previous are good influences and/or in line with virtuous values? Which influences lend to attitudes and images of impurity, selfishness, disrespect and/or violence?
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Have you bought anything for your child or allowed him or her to purchase anything lately that might promote ungodly character? If so, pause for a minute to pray about what God would have you do with that thing and how you should speak to your child about it. Record here what you sense God directing you to do:
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