Trust in the Lord, Not Your Three Pounds

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Steve Baldock brought the Awana council-time lesson upstairs so the whole Monday night group could hear it together. Using Proverbs 3:5-6 and John 8:12, he made the case that the world's confusion has a specific, identifiable cause, and that the Bible gives a clear answer to it. Steve opened by naming what he sees in the world around us: confusion about marriage, identity, money, purpose and...

Read together

1. Proverbs 3:5-6 presented as the solution to human confusion and reliance on our own understanding, quoted multiple times throughout
2. John 8:12 Jesus declares himself the light of the world, whoever follows him will not walk in darkness but have the light of life
3. John 10 briefly referenced at the close by the host: Jesus came to give life and life to the full measure

Talk about it

1. Steve said that God's word 'never goes void' and always comes out of us later on. When have you seen that play out in your own life or in someone else's?
2. Steve used the image of a three-pound brain to describe how limited our own understanding is. Where in your life are you most tempted to lean on your own reasoning instead of trusting God?
3. Steve said the world is confused about marriage, identity, money, purpose, and time, and that the root cause is people believing they can figure life out on their own. Do you agree with that diagnosis? Why or why not?
4. Steve quoted Jesus in John 8 verse 12: 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.' What does it look like practically to follow that light when the voices around you are pointing somewhere else?
5. Steve closed with the challenge that just as there was no room for Jesus the night he was born, we need to make room for Jesus in our own hearts. What might 'making room for Jesus' look like in the way you actually live this Christmas season?