Metamorphosis Small Group Guide - Softcover

Reisig, Chad A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 148402494X ISBN 13: 9781484024942

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Lead your group into real conversations about faith, struggle, and change.

Teens can spot a performance from across the room. What they respond to is a leader who's honest, a room where it's safe to be real, and questions that don't have canned answers.

The Metamorphosis Small Group Guide is a seven-session curriculum built around that kind of conversation. Drawing on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, it walks teens and young adults through a question at the heart of the Christian life: What does it look like to let God change you from the inside out?

This is not a script. It's a conversation starter, and every session follows the same easy-to-prepare format:

• Big Idea: the one concept the whole session revolves around
• Things You Will Need: a simple prep list, so nothing catches you off guard
• Ice Breaker: games and challenges that loosen up the room and set up the discussion
• Teaching Time: Scripture-based discussion with ASK and SAY cues, with students reading from their own Bibles
• Group Leader Sharing Time: prompts to help you model the honesty you're asking of your students
• Small-group breakouts, a wrap-up, and a closing prayer

The seven sessions:

1. We Are Helpless
2. Open Your Life
3. Let God Metamorphoo You
4. Do It God's Way
5. Hear & Speak
6. Live for God
7. Go With God

Along the way, your group will tackle the things teens actually carry: shame, grief, failure, and the fear of what others think. The guide also includes printable Healing Cards and an optional outreach activity that puts the final session into practice.

Whether you're a youth pastor, a volunteer, or a parent opening your home on Wednesday nights, you don't need a seminary degree to lead this study. You just need to be willing to be real.

Designed to pair with the book Metamorphosis: Transformed from the Inside-Out (sold separately). The book is a good companion but isn't required.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 148402494X
• ISBN 13: 9781484024942
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42