Build Your Kingdom Here :: Jonathan and David
Use the lead app to check in students and make sure any students not listed fill out a connect card digitally.
Do not move on until check-in has happened and any students not listed have filled out a connect card.
Start by reviewing what we learned tonight.
Ride or Dies:
Are Generous
have each others back
Celebrate with their friends
Help their friends up.
Look out for the interest of others.
Ask the students which of these things stuck with them the most and why.
Read Philippians 2:4-8
4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Have a conversation on why humility is so important when it comes to looking out for the interest of others.
Create a discussion led by these questions:
What kinds of needs do people in your school have?
What would it look like to meet those needs?
When are situations in life, when you need someone to have your back?
Has anyone ever taken up for and defended you? How?
How have you stood up for someone else?
What are some “wins” we can celebrate with friends?
What are some failures that we can help friends through?
Finish with a simple exercise:
Have students share the initials to friends that have come into their mind tonight.Spend a few minutes coming up with real simple next steps for them to step into then looking out for their interests.
PRAY and CHILL
We will know we have hit our target if:
-Students understand the idea od a ride or die in such a way that they want to find and be those kind of people.
-Students have a simple next step for a person in their life that needs a ride or die.