Bellevue Bright Lights: Disputing and Arguing

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Disputing and Arguing

I've been so incredibly blessed with this group of girls this year! They really are a great group of gals :) Our last meeting before summer break will be on June 8th...are you looking forward to summer as much as I am? Our topic this past week was Disputing and Arguing, and here are a couple shots of the girls playing a really fun game that focuses on working together...

Bright Lights Set 5 Meeting 5 Disputing and Arguing

Listen to BL CD

Story of Joseph in Gen. 37

Personal Testimonies

Sword Drills:

Prov. 18:19

Prov. 17:14

Prov. 25:8 – 12

Rom. 14:19

Eph. 4:2

Read together…Phil.2:1 – 15 and Col. 3:12 – 25

Main Concepts:

In this set we keep seeing over and over how our words are so important. This meeting is just another example of how hurtful or healing our words can be.

Each of us is going to face irritations and conflicts in our relationships with others. The key is learning how to handle these conflicts in a godly way. To do this, we must first of all learn to overcome our natural, human reactions, and secondly, learn to replace them with Chirst-like responses – such as humility, meekness, and overcoming evil with good.

When it comes to winning or losing an argument, we need to understand that the “loser” is actually the “winner”. The one who is willing to give in and humbly “esteem others better than themselves” is the true winner in God’s eyes. Once again, God’s thinking is exactly opposite to our own natural inclinations.

This is hard. We need help – we can’t do it on our own. Well, God has promised that He will give some very special help to some specific people – those who humble themselves (1 Pet. 5:5)! If we look for ways to humble ourselves every day, we can expect God to work on our behalf in a mighty way.

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” Matthew 5:9

BYMPC

Read aloud

Activities and Tea Time

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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.