NextGen Leaders: July- September 2022

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

Master Teacher is the teacher’s quarterly to be used with Adult Christian Life and College and Career. Each lesson contains extensive biblical exposition and specific instructions for the teacher. The outline of the lesson is reader-friendly, and includes suggestions for maximizing teacher/student interaction and topics for making the study informative and enriching.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Jun 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781681679501

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The Young Adult Quarterly • July/August/September 2022 • Vol. 50, No. 3

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NextGen LEADERS Features

The NextGen Leaders quarterly contains many features that sustain its popular appeal among young adult learners, addressing the unique needs and experiences of a life stage that encompasses educational attainment and career development. NextGen Leaders features elements to enhance and extend the learning experience for Bible study participants and those seeking greater understanding through personal study.

Printed Scripture Passages: Parallels the King James Version and the New Revised Standard Version, so students can easily compare a traditional and contemporary translation of God’s Holy Word.

Let’s Get Started: A brief introduction that sets the lesson tone for learners.

Life.Point: Questions and statements related to life to guide learners in giving new applications to biblical passages.

Life Points can lead to a complete understanding of spiritual principles as they are reflected in the lives of learners.

Lesson.Point: Succinctly declares the focal point of the lesson to aid in internalizing and retaining the message.

Remember This: The passage of Scripture most central to the text is featured prominently toward the bottom of the page.

Sidebar Questions/Activities: Sidebars offer thought-provoking questions to spark deeper personal reflection and class discussions of critical spiritual applications of God’s Word. Learners may answer these questions individually or as a small-group activity.

Online Extras: Provides additional resources via rhboyd.com.

Lesson Summary: Gives students a synopsis of the lesson, citing its essential truths.

Life.Point Discussion: Contextualizes the lesson’s truths to stimulate additional questions, interest, or a relevant call to action from students.

Life.Point Action: Offers learners a call to action based on the main point of the lesson.

Lesson material is based on International Sunday School Lessons. The International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching. Copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education, and is used by its permission.

Scriptures taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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What’s in This Quarter…

Members of Christ’s body have the grand opportunity to be co-laborers with the ever-abiding Spirit of God in reconciling, re-creating, and rightly restoring all things in the eternal reign of God. This summer quarter considers ways in which believers are partners with God in creation.

Unit 1—An Agent of Creation

Unit I, The Word: The Agent of Creation, has five lessons taken from John’s Gospel. The lessons stress how the Creating Word, at work in and with humanity, became flesh, healed the sick, saved the lost, resurrected the dead and granted—through the Holy Spirit—peace.

Unit 2—The Great Hope of the Saints

Unit II, The Great Hope of the Saints, is a four-lesson study drawn from Revelation. The study helps learners envision the new home and city God has prepared for the redeemed. In this new heavenly environment, the saints will enjoy the new water of eternal life..

Unit 3—God Calls Abraham’s Family

Unit III, God Calls Abraham’s Family, has four sessions from Genesis. Lesson 10 examines the call of Abraham, who was then known as Abram. Lesson 11 reveals how God chose the younger of Isaac’s sons instead of the older, which would have been expected. Lesson 12 shows how Jacob received the name Israel–the same name that would later be associated with the nation that grew from Abraham’s descendants. Lesson 13 offers yet another example of God’s choosing apart from cultural norms when Judah, Jacob’s fourth son, is called to head the family from which the Messiah would one day be born.

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CONTENTS

JULY — THE WORD: THE AGENT OF CREATION

3 The Reason for It All

John 1:1–14

10 Never Too Far Away

John 4:46–54

17 Bringing the Light

John 12:44–50

24 Conquering the Ultimate Enemy

John 11:17–27, 38–44

31 Present Forever

John 14:15–29

AUGUST — THE GREAT HOPE OF THE SAINTS

7 No More Tears

Revelation 21:1–9

14 No Place Like It

Revelation 21:10–21

21 No Better Refreshment

Revelation 22:1–7

28 No Substitute

Revelation 22:10–21

SEPTEMBER — GOD CALLS ABRAHAM’S FAMILY

4 Unbroken Promises

Genesis 12:1–5, 7; 15:1–17

11 An Unexpected Choice

Genesis 25:19–34

18 Persevere in Times of Difficulty

Genesis 32:22–32

25 Dynamics of Family Leadership

Genesis 35:22–26; 38:24–26; 49:10–12

Suggested Opening Exercises

1. Usual Signal for Beginning

2. Prayer (Closing with the Lord’s Prayer)

3. Singing (Songs to be Selected)

4. Scripture Reading: 1 Chronicles 16:8–15 (KJV)

Director: Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.

School: Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.

Director: Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

School: Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

Director: Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

School: O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Director: He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

All: Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

Recitation in Concert:

Philippians 1:2–8 (KJV)

2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Closing Work

1. Singing

2. Opening Sentences: Proverbs 3:3–10 (KJV)

3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine

3. Dismissal with Prayer

THE REASON FOR IT ALL

Unifying Topic: The Creating Word Becomes Flesh

Focal Scripture: John 1:1–14 • Background Scripture: John 1:1–14

Let’s Get Started...

One of the most amazing phenomena is the inception of life. Merriam-Webster defines life as the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body. Christians would say that the true essence of one’s life begins when he or she recognizes God’s calling and purpose for them. In our lesson today, John tells us, that as we share God’s Word and believe in God as our Creator and the one Who loves us, we are