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ANDY STANLEY COLLECTION GROW UP (1): BIG FAITH BOTTOM LINE: THE FOUNDATION OF HOW MUCH YOU GROW IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS BASED ON YOUR TRUST IN HIM. INTRODUCTION Your faith in God matters to God. In fact, God is most honored through your living, active, death-defying, out-of-the-box faith. That being the case, He’s committed to growing it. Big. Imagine how WONDER. differently you would respond to difficulties, temptations, and even DISCOVERY. good things if you knew with certainty that God was in all of it and PASSION. was planning to leverage it for good. But in order for all of that to WWW.WHATISORANGE.ORG/ happen, there’s one thing it all hinges on—your trust. XP3STUDENTS CREATIVE DIRECTOR Jared Herd WRITER Andy Stanley XP3 TEAM Tim Walker Sarah Anderson Sarah Bragg CONTRIBUTORS Mark Brown Laura Whelan Wyndi Lebrecque GRAPHICS USER AGREEMENT Scott Bragg The reThink Group, Inc. gladly grants permission to churches, schools and other licensees to tailor XP3TM materials to fit their unique leadership ORANGE SPECIALISTS requirements, locale and format preferences. However, if you wish to Kristie McCollister edit the content substantively, including teaching scripts, small group Jeremy Zach dialog and any other content in which biblical principles and concepts are presented, you are obligated to do so within the doctrinal guidelines TECHNICAL & WEB SUPPORT we’ve expressed in our Statement of Faith (see page 2). Hadley Brandt Alex VanRossum These resources are intended to be downloaded and printed for use by the subscribing entity only and may not be electronically transferred CHIEF EXECUTIVE to or duplicated by other non-subscribing entities. Any unauthorized OFFICER reproduction of this material or incorporation into a new work— Reggie Joiner including podcasts or video of this content—is a direct violation of U.S. copyright laws. ©2010 The reThink Group, Inc. All rights reserved. XP3 CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER and the XP3 logo are trademarks of The reThink Group, Inc. Reggie Goodin www.whatisorange.org/xp3students © 2010 Andy Stanley All Rights Reserved A product of Orange STATEMENT OF FAITH ABOUT GOD God is the one and only true God, yet He exists in three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. God is the Creator, so everything belongs to Him and is under His control. God is holy, so He is righteous, majestic and loving. God is all knowing and purposeful, so He’s at work to bring about His will. No person, thing or idea compares to God. ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES God reveals Himself to us through the Bible, and it is 100% accurate, reliable and authoritative. ABOUT PEOPLE People are made in God’s image and for His pleasure. But everybody falls short of God’s intention, or ideal, for people. In other words, everyone has sinned. As a result, we are all separated from Him, even though He wants an intimate relationship with each of us. ABOUT SALVATION That’s why Jesus, God’s Son, came and lived on this earth, died and rose again. God offers His free gift of salvation to all who believe in Jesus and accept Him as Savior, the only way to be forgiven and reconciled to God. Anyone who accepts this gift is adopted as a son or daughter into God’s family and will live with Him forever in heaven. Scripture marked “NIV” is taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org/xp3students © 2010 Andy Stanley All Rights Reserved A product of Orange CREATING THE ENVIRONMENT We believe that the set, stage, music and everything in your room communicates a message—without you saying a word. That’s why we put together a list of production ideas to help you set the stage for the session and the series. From the music you play when students come into the room to the worship set your band plays, we want to make sure that your room conveys “Grow Up” in a multi-sensory way. There is a downloadable checklist available in your series downloads that will give you all the elements for this session (and the entire series). BACKGROUND PLAYLIST FOR THE GROW UP SERIES “Beautiful Mistake” by Eddy (from Start An Uproar!) “Gotta Serve Somebody” by Nichole Nordeman (from Brave) “You’re Not Shaken” by Phil Stacey (from Into the Light) “Jump Then Fall” by Taylor Swift (from Fearless) “Walk On” by U2 (from All That You Can’t Leave Behind) “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys” by Willie Nelson (from Willie Nelson’s Greatest Hits) “Held” by Natalie Grant (from Awaken) “This Is Your Life” by Switchfoot (from The Beautiful Letdown) “Move Forward” by Bethany Dillon (from Bethany Dillon) “Calling All Angels” by Train (from My Private Nation) “We Never Change” by Coldplay (from Parachutes) WORSHIP PLAYLIST FOR GROW UP SESSION 1 “Let The Praises Ring” by Lincoln Brewster (from Let The Praises Ring-The Best of Lincoln Brewster) “Yesterday, Today and Forever” by Vicky Beeching (from Yesterday, Today and Forever) “Trust In You” by Drew Bodine (from Everything Is Yours) “I Will Trust You” by Vineyard Music (from More Than Ever: Live from the Rockies) THE SET For the Grow Up Series, the set will be dynamic, meaning that it will change over the course of this six-week series. For the first couple of weeks, create a set that looks like a kid’s room. Decorate with things that were popular during your students’ childhood. Think along the lines of old toys, curtains with Power Rangers, Bar- bies, etc. (You may want to enlist the help of parents for some of this stuff.) You may even want to put a single bed on stage with a comforter that has a kid-friendly print. Then slowly, over the remaining four weeks, begin to replace the toys and items in the room with older, more sophisticated items—like computers, stereos, pil- lows, and a cleaner, more modern design (Ikea-ish). SERIES ART Art for PowerPoint backgrounds and for series promotional ads is available as a free download with every series. Visit the XP3 web site, log on to your account and download the images to use in your presentation, newsletters and web site. VIDEO Both a video bumper and a video communicator are available for the “Grow Up” series as a video download from the reThink store. You can purchase the videos by logging into your XP3 account and clicking on the “XP3 videos” link. The Grow Up video communicator was created to be used in Session 1 of this series in place of a live commu- nicator. The bumper video was created to be used as an intro for all six sessions of Grow Up series. www.whatisorange.org/xp3students © 2010 Andy Stanley All Rights Reserved A product of Orange MIDDLE SCHOOL ADAPTATION The following activities and illustrations will help middle school students connect with the subject matter in ways that engage them physically, mentally, socially and sometimes emotionally. You can also adapt the Grow Up series for middle school students by using the teaching outline found in this document to edit the teaching script to a 20-minute presentation. In addition, by using the separate middle school small group dialog questions (found in the series downloads) that are geared specifically for 6th-8th graders, you can make each section more middle school friendly. SESSION 1 GAME: RED ROVER (Play this game as an icebreaker to Session 1.) For an icebreaker, play the classic childhood game, Red Rover, but with a twist. You will need to play this game outside. Set up a table with various items on them. These will be items that you will fling via a slingshot. Some possible items include: • cut up pieces of melon (watermelon, cantaloupe, etc.) • cold baked beans • a large bowl of cereal with milk • marshmallows • candy bars (still in the wrappers) Write down each item on a slip of paper, then fold each piece of paper and place it in a bowl so that students can draw from the bowl to select the item. Select a group of students (the number is up to you) and give each student a poncho. Have students put on the ponchos and stand in a single line on the opposite side from the table. Then have a student select a piece of paper from the bowl, and he or she must tell everyone what item they’ve drawn. Then the entire group of students should chant, “Red Rover” and insert the name of the item. For example, “Red Rover, Red Rover, send marshmallows on over.” After sending the requested food, keep drawing slips of paper from the bowl and play the game until all your items have been sent over. SESSION 1 ILLUSTRATION: LEAN ON ME (Use this illustration at the end of the TRUTH section of the teaching script.) Sometimes the word “trust” can be an abstract concept to think through. But really every situation we encounter is about trusting God—whether that’s temptation, relationships, our future—it all boils down to God can I trust you with this. But a way that we trust in everyday life is when we lean on something. For example, when you lean against a wall, you trust it will support you. When you lean on your mom’s shoulder, you trust that she won’t move. Bring a couple of students up to the stage and have them stand back-to-back a distance apart.