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    Groove: Dilemmas Leader Guide
    Groove: Dilemmas Leader Guide
    Groove: Dilemmas Leader Guide
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    Groove: Dilemmas Leader Guide

    By Tony Akers

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    Every day, youth are called to navigate a world full of challenging decisions—from the simple choices about everyday life to the much more serious ethical dilemmas that can make being a teenager a complicated experience. Some of those dilemmas include: What does it mean to be a person with established morals and ethics? How does the commandment to love others affect our lives in a tangible way? What happens when we make choices that have consequences that greatly affect our lives and the lives of those around us?


    Dilemmas isn’t designed to provide simple answers to complicated questions, but rather help teens understand how to make inspired, smart choices that reflect both who they are and who they are striving to be.


    The Groove: Dilemmas Student Journal will challenge youth to be deliberate, thoughtful, and faithful as they attempt to make choices that are consistent with their character and their faith.


    The Groove Bible study series invites teens to learn the essentials of their faith, own their story, and engage the world in serving Jesus. Each topical study consists of four weekly sessions that are easy to lead and relate to life issues teens face. With up to 48 weeks available, Groove is great for Sunday and mid-week gatherings for both large and small groups as well as retreats. The leader guide contains everything needed to lead teens through a Groove study, including teaching outlines, leader notes, Bible background, reflections, and parent communication.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateDec 15, 2015
    ISBN9781501809217
    Groove: Dilemmas Leader Guide
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    Tony Akers

    Tony has a Master s degree in Christian Education/Youth Ministryfrom Asbury Theological Seminary and has entered his third decade of serving inyouth ministry. He currently serves as the Minister to Youth and theirFamilies at Trinity United Methodist Church in Huntsville, Alabama. He isprivileged to be married to Debbi and dad to Madison, Samuel, and Hannah Grace.When not dreaming how to do youth ministry better, Tony can be found at asoccer game, kayaking on the river, or reading.

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      Groove - Tony Akers

      About This Groove Study

      Every day, youth are called to navigate a world full of challenging choices—from the simple choices about everyday life to the much more serious ethical dilemmas that can make being a teenager such a complicated experience. So how do we help them as they seek to make choices that are consistent with their character and their faith?

      Groove: Dilemmas is a four-week Bible study designed to help the teens in your ministry understand how to make inspired, smart choices that reflect both who they are and who they are striving to become. What does it mean to be a person with established morals and ethics? How does the commandment to love others affect our lives in a tangible way? How do we live into the values that we claim as followers of Jesus? And what happens when we make choices that have consequences that greatly affect our lives and the lives of those around us?

      Dilemmas isn’t designed to give simple answers to complicated questions. The study’s sessions and the daily devotions of the Groove: Dilemmas Student Journal will challenge the youth to be deliberate, thoughtful, and faithful as they work through the choices that they have to make.

      Thank you for using Groove: Dilemmas and for challenging teens to live faithful, thoughtful lives as they seek to follow Jesus!

      How to Use Groove

      The Groove curriculum was designed to help you lead a great gathering of teens, providing enough material for you, as the youth leader, to choose the pieces that work well for your group and that guide the teens into discussion, helping to integrate their faith into their daily lives. The format is designed to teach and engage as well as to prompt teens to wrestle with and ask hard questions. To that end, below are some explanations about the format, layout, and ways to best use the resource.

      The Key Format Components

      Gather Up

      As the teens arrive for each session, first impressions say everything about how you are prepared to welcome them. In addition to creating a warm, teen-friendly environment, most lessons will include an activity to engage teens directly and move their mindset toward the more organized structure of the lesson. Because teens occasionally arrive late, this activity is intentionally designed so that a teen may arrive during or after it without being lost or behind during the remaining session time.

      Warm Up

      As you and your group transition from the active or welcoming part of Gather Up, you want to prime the pump of your teens’ hearts and minds. This usually happens in an activity that helps them to focus on the subject of the lesson. The activity is meant to be short and to engage and set up what comes next.

      Look Up

      This section is the direct teaching time of the lesson. Included is the teaching outline, which

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