LESSON 1 GOD AND YOUR HEART
BIBLE READING 1 John 1:8 – 2:2; 2:15-17 Key verse: Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15).
TEACHING POINT Love for God conflicts with love for the world. There is only one number one in your life.
LEADER'S PREPARATION This session is about raising the awareness amongst the young people of the constant pressure on them to be ‘worldly’. The aim is to set up the rest of the series and to introduce the idea of worldliness, which remains a problem and attraction even when we are committed Christians. ‘The world’ is used in various ways in the Bible. It can mean the physical world, as in Genesis 41:57, ‘the famine was severe
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