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| The "Incarnation" Issue | November 2010 |
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1. From Barry, InWord Director: "Is the Incarnation Relevant?"
First off, welcome to the revised edition of InWord Online, a revision that moves us toward a more interactive, blog-based newsletter. We're tweaking as we go, exploring the best options for the type of content that we produce; so you may continue to see changes as we journey along these next few months.
Now to the incarnation...
Considering the intensity of the efforts these days to de-deify Jesus, embracing the miracle of the incarnation may be more important now than it was in the generation that hammered out the theology of the incarnation.
[Read more:]
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2. Youth Worker Poll Results: Our Voting Habits
In last month's issue we re-ran a poll question that we originally posed in 2008. So, we have a chance to compare ourselves to two years ago. Admittedly, not a long range of time, but we love numbers! We bumped up a bit in one area of voting, lost a bit in another, and we added a few more unregistered voters to the rolls compared to two years ago. Take a look:
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Current |
2008 | |
Percent of us who shoot for or hit every election 100 percent of the time (absentee if necessary): |
60.8 |
59.0 | |
Percent of us who try to vote at least in the big November elections (U.S. congressional seats, state legislators, Presidential): |
24.0 |
25.0 | |
Percent of us who aren't registered to vote: |
3.2 |
3.0 |
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3. Try This: An Incarnation Experience
There isn't a better explainer of the incarnation than Scripture. You can use this exercise, a simple media presentation of Scripture on the incarnation, in a number of ways:
· as a devotional for one of your events/activities;
· as a worship experience in your big group setting;
· as a standalone Bible study;
· as a personal mini-retreat for yourself.
[Read more]
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4. Bible Quiz: First Lines/Incarnation
Have you ever set out to grab a few verses from the Bible on the incarnation of Jesus (as was done for the "Try This" exercise above)? You end up wanting to paste in the entire New Testament...and the entire Old Testament. Everything points to Jesus, and the incarnation is, well, everything. This quiz, made up of first lines from New Testament books, illustrates the point.
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5. Free Bible Study Session: "In the Beginning..." (John 1)
Maybe John was tired of orderly accounts and genealogies. For whatever reason, John opened up his gospel waxing poetic and gave us one of the most vivid accounts of the incarnation. Use this small group Bible study in John 1 to help your students personally experience the incarnation this Christmas season.
[Get Free Session "In The Beginning"]
(NOTE: This free session is from InWord's popular, but out of print, small-group study "Hungering For His Word: John 1-6." A revised version of the session can be found in "See, Believe, Live: An Inductive Study in John.") |
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6. This Month's Featured (and discounted!) Resource
See, Believe, Live: An Inductive Study in John
12 Sessions
Discount: 25 percent
We know, we know. There's no such thing as regularly scheduled programming during the month of December so why offer a discounted resource? Maybe you still have some discipleship slots open that need content; or consider this: use the month of celebrating Jesus' birth to either launch or promote a Bible study celebrating Jesus' life. Then start in January and march toward Easter. See, Believe, Live dives into teachable-moment high spots of Jesus' life---from birth to resurrection---through the gospel of John.
[Get resource] |
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