NextGen Leaders: January- March 2024

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. It follows the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outline from the National Council of Churches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Dec 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886351675

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FIRST QUARTER 2024 • Vol. 52, No. 1

The NextGenLeaders 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 greaterunderstanding through personal study.

Printed Scripture Passage: The King James Version and the New Revised Standard Version are listed side by side so learners can compare traditional and contemporary translations of God’s Word. The main thought verse is highlighted in bold text.

Suggested Opening Exercises: This feature, standard to all R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Sunday school quarterlies, remains popular among learners and leaders alike.

Quarterly Overview: This gives a general description of the lessons to be studied during the quarter.

Know It: Contextualizes the lesson and expands on its truths to stimulate additional questions, interest, or action on the part of the learners.

Remember It: Summary section that emphasizes the most relevant points of the lesson and highlights how the lesson applies to learners.

Hear It: An opportunity to listen to the relevant message of the lesson through music.

Live It: Suggestions for learners to take specific action to make the lesson a personal opportunity for spiritual enlightenment.

Share It: Suggestions for learners to spread the Bible truth learned through various mediums, such as social media or one-on-one talks.

Daily Devotional Readings: To prepare learners for the Sunday lesson experience.

Online Extras: Activities, quizzes, and additional resources for outside study via www.rhboyd.com.

Lesson material is based on the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outlines, copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and is used with 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…

This quarter explores faith that pleases God. Any person seeking God must believe God exists and must know God rewards those who are seeking God. In this quarter, we will learn additional information about faith that pleases God as we review the description of faith and observe faith in action. We will understand why it is so important to have faith that pleases God in our lifestyle of faith today.

Unit I— Learning about Faith

This unit has four lessons drawn from Hebrews, Proverbs, 2 Chronicles, and Romans that allow us to learn more about faith, its description, its importance, its trustworthiness, its encouragement, and its transformation. The lesson from Hebrews assists our understanding of why faith that pleases God matters. A pleasing faith was so important to God that God declared as righteous the patriarchs who lived by faith. Similarly, Proverbs admonishes us to have faith, trusting God and depending on God to enable us to live in faith. In 2 Chronicles, we see the example of Jehoshaphat’s faith. God empowers Jehoshaphat’s witness to Judah that they need not fear or be dismayed because God was going to fight their battle for them. The lesson from Romans reminds Christians that through faith, their existence must not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewal of their minds.

Unit II—The Righteous Live by Faith

This unit has four lessons drawn from Isaiah, Daniel, and Habakkuk that allow us to see how the righteous live by faith. Isaiah reminds us through living by faith, the righteous can see the power of God throughout all creation; Daniel allows us to see how living by faith, the three Hebrew boys trusted God to protect them in the fiery furnace; and how Daniel, living by faith, trusted God to protect him in the lions’ den; Habakkuk, living by faith, received instructions reminding him to be still and wait on God.

Unit III—Faith-FULL Versus Faith-LESS

This unit has five lessons drawn from Jude, Second Corinthians, First Peter, Acts, and Mark that invite learners to turn the challenges of life into opportunities for nurturing a vibrant faith instead of giving up, turning away from God, or rejecting faith. Jude appeals to us to contend for the faith that was once entrusted to the saints. The second letter to the Corinthians warns Christians to examine themselves to make sure they are living in the faith. Peter urges his readers to defend their faith with humility, gentleness, and reverence. Acts encourages the Church to be obedient to the faith using Stephen as an example. In Mark, God raised Jesus from the dead and, in so doing, unlocks the door to resurrection faith.

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Contents: January, February, March

I LEARNING ABOUT FAITH

II THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE BY FAITH

III FAITH-FULL VS FAITH-LESS

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: Galatians 3:11–15

Director: But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

School: And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

Director: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

School: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

All: Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Recitation in Concert: Romans 1:14–17

14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as