EA Essential - engaging young people with biblical truth

Review

This resource aims to explore who God is and what he is like.  It focuses on the truth about God by looking at both the Exodus and the life of Jesus.  This resource is based around the questions that young people often ask and gives plenty of space for group members to ask and explore their own questions.  It also gives time to the questions the Bible causes us to ask ourselves.

This leader’s guide is an excellent resource and will help prepare you for the questions that you may well be bombarded with during the sessions.  There are plenty of suggested ideas for each session to choose from.  The basic structure is an activity followed by discussion.  There are three parts to each session:-

• What’s up? – Discussion starter activities
• What’s what? – Activities for exploring the Bible passages.
• So what? – Activities designed to help the group respond in praise and prayer, to ask more questions, to explore FAQs and find out more.

This resource is suitable for a wide range of groups.  The questioning approach and the fact that it’s designed to be responsive makes it ideal to adapt to suit your group.  The way it explores both the Old and New Testaments will help young people see the Bible as a whole and see how the two Testaments relate to each other. 

Contents

1) Knowing the unknowable

2) The God who is (1)

3) The God who is (2)

4) The God who makes himself known

5) Jesus’ compassion for people

6) The God who rescues from slavery

7) The God who rescues us from sin

8) The God who gives the law

9) Living with God today

10) Knowing God, Knowing Love