Advent: Weeks 1 and 2

First off, let me apologize for the lack of updates on this blog for the past couple weeks. As we were talking through the transition I was trying to figure out how we will use this blog going forward and spent much time analyzing what we currently do and what we will do in the future. All of that to say, going forward, starting on Dec 31 your teenagers will be learning and talking about similar things to what is being taught from the stage on Sunday morning. Our high school small group, starting the week of Jan 21, will follow the same curriculum as the adult small group. But we still want to give you valuable resources and ways to engage your teens in conversations of spiritual significance. So we will keep this going and feed you questions to ask or talk about over dinner or on the way to practice, etc.

Anyway, the past 2 weeks in bcsm we have talked about Advent being a season of preparing and lights. We talked about the prophets preparing the way for Jesus to come and Jesus being the light of the world.

The biggest questions that came out of these lessons were:
1. How do you prepare yourself to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas?
2. How can you take the light of Jesus to the people around you?

Maybe talk to your student about how you do these things and either link this to a standard family tradition of yours or come up with a new tradition based around preparing for Christmas' true meaning.