Elevate Student Ministries

    Your Mind’s Utility Belt Objective:  Students will learn how memorizing Scripture will help them grow spiritually and will be challenged to make Scripture memory a personal spiritual discipline. Key Scripture:   Psalm 119:11 - Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You. Key Thought:  What we put into our minds matters.   Lesson Summary:  This week’s lesson was the fourth of a four-part series called “Roots: Growing Your Faith.” The four lessons in this series are core essentials in the life of a believer covering the topics of salvation, Quiet Time, spiritual growth, and Scripture memory. Sunday’s lesson focused on Scripture memory.   Your student was challenged to begin memorizing Scripture. This discipline is important as it allows us to have truth with us at all times, like adding tools to a “mental” utility belt, of sorts. Your student was challenged to memorize a Bible verse that is relevant to t...

  Grow on Purpose Objective:  Students will understand how biblical disciplines grow and deepen their Christian faith and will be challenged to apply these disciplines through Word of Life Creative Discipleship. Key Scripture:   Colossians 2:6-7 - As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Key Thought:  Grow on purpose . Lesson Summary:  This week’s lesson was the third in a four-part series called “Roots: Growing Your Faith.” Tonight’s lesson focused on personal, spiritual growth. The students were encouraged to develop a plan for spiritual growth and to use the Creative Discipleship Program to help with that plan. The Creative Discipleship Program highlights eight different areas that should be part of the spiritual growth plan of every follower of Jesus. They are: Attendance to a local church (Hebrews 10:24-25), Quiet...

  Eat Up! Objective: Students will learn the importance of a daily quiet time and will be encouraged to utilize the truth they are learning from engaging in a daily quiet time . Key Scripture: Job 23:12 - I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. Key Thought: Quiet Time is the most important meal of the day. Lesson Summary:  This week’s lesson was the second in a four-part series called “Roots: Growing Your Faith.” The four lessons in this series are core essentials in the life of a believer covering the topics of salvation, quiet time, spiritual growth, and Scripture memory. Tonight’s lesson focused on personal quiet time. When we say, “Quiet Time,” we are talking about “time alone with God praying, reading His Word, and applying its truth to one’s life.” Just like our bodies need food, so do our souls. Our souls are fed through the most important meal of the day, our quiet time. In this les...