Bellevue Bright Lights: Friends

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Friends

Bright Lights Meeting 4 Set 4 – Friends

Three Significant Decisions…

By the age of 10, everyone has made, or is beginning to make, 3 decisions that will have a huge impact on their lives:

1.) How we will respond to authority

2.) What friends we will choose

3.) Whether we will be a “giver” or a “taker”

The following pattern is often observable in groups:

- Those who are rebellious attract each other and form a clique

- The weak Christians attract each other and for a group

- The stronger Christians also attract each other and can unfortunately, often appear to be as a clique

- But the most mature believers are focused on the needs around them. Rather than being in a clique with their friends, they are willing to seek out the weaker or needy ones, and give to them. These people are givers instead of takers.

Scripture:

1 Kings 12

Proverbs 17:17

Proverbs 22:24

James 4:4

1 John1: 3, 7

1 Corinthians 15:33

Proverbs 13:20

Main Concepts:

1.) Scripture warns us that we will be very influenced by those whom we choose as our friends. If we desire to be srong for the Lord, we need to choose wise friends who will build us up, and we need to be discerning as to which friends may influence us in wrong ways.

2.) Many young ladies struggle with the friendships they have in their lives. Some feel they have no friends; others have difficulties in the relationships with the friends they have. These problems can quickly be cleared up if we focus on being a “giver” instead of a “taker” in our relationships.

3.) Our focus is to be on how to BE a friend, not how to HAVE a friend. Character traits to develop in our lives in order to be a good friend include availability, sensitivity, kindness, compassion, loyalty, faithfulness, etc.

4.) Overcoming barriers to being a good friend like shyness, vanity, selfishness…

5.) Delighting in the Lord and getting to know Him as your BFF J

6.) The dangers of becoming close friends with young men.

Activities

Tea Time

A big thank you to all the amazing young ladies that make up the Bellevue Bright Lights group!! God bless you all J

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What is a Bright Light?

It is a girl who has given her life to Jesus Christ, trusting in Him alone for salvation and for the grace to live each day according to His will. It is a girl who knows how to respond "just right" to people and circumstances, demonstrating godliness in her actions and attitudes. It is a girl who has Biblical convictions and commitments (holiness), and is able to go through her teenage years strong for the Lord without stumbling as many do. It is a girl who touches the lives of others by her servant’s spirit, her radiant countenance, and the message of eternal life through Jesus Christ (testimony). God wants bright lights! There is a great need for more of them in this generation of darkness.

What does a typical meeting look like?

What is a Typical Meeting Like? If you were to attend a Bright Lights meeting, what would it be like? At each meeting the leader shares a lesson covering important topics that are essential for girls in order for them to be strong for the Lord in their youth, such as:

Developing a Close Relationship with Parents
Gaining a Clear Conscience
Spending Time in God’s Word Everyday
Keeping Yourself Pure from Polluting Influences
Accepting the Way God Created You
Choosing Wise Friends
Contentment
Sensitivity
Humility
Self-control

The lesson is reinforced by testimonies from older girls in the group. At Bright Lights meetings, we also enjoy singing, fellowshipping with likeminded young ladies, listening to biographies of great Christians from history, preparing for future ministry opportunities, enjoying other activities together, and snacks (often with tea in china tea cups).

Each girl receives a Bright Lights binder that she brings with her to the meetings each week. After each lesson, she receives a new handout to add to her binder. The Bright Lights curriculum is organized into eight sets which you can view here.

Statement of Faith

1. Everyone has sinned and broken God’s laws. Because the penalty for sin is death, each of us deserve to spend eternity in hell in separation from God. We are totally incapable of achieving heaven on our own. There is no way we can be good enough to attain forgiveness from sin or achieve eternal life by our own works.
2. God so loved the world that He gave His only son, Jesus Christ, to rescue us from our sin. Jesus died on the cross, was buried, and rose again on the third day. He paid the penalty for our sin and took the punishment that we deserved.
3. Forgiveness and the free gift of eternal life is offered to anyone who will repent of their sin, and believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior. Redemption is wholly by the blood of Christ, and salvation is by grace, through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
4. The Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God, and the final authority for our lives. It is literal, historical, and infallible.
5. There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
6. The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God, born of a virgin, sinlessly perfect. His sacrifice is substitutionary and representative. He rose bodily from the dead and ascended to His Father’s right hand, where He now ministers as our Great High Priest.
7. Jesus Christ is coming again to rapture His church, and subsequently to return and reign over the earth.
8. God created the universe ex nihilo (out of nothing) by His spoken word in six literal days as the Bible states.
9. There will be a resurrection of both the saved and the lost to either eternal life or eternal judgment.
10. A true child of God who is justified by the blood of Christ and sealed by the Holy Spirit is safe and exempt from God’s judgment and thus secure for eternity.