Underground Student Ministries

How To Be An Effective, Missional Church

undergroundstudentministry — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:51:04 +0000

The Church is Called to Be Missional. Continuing from that idea, when our main idea of reaching people is to say “come to us” we are missing a big part of our calling to be missional. The structure as it looks now is to set up the church and make it as appealing as possible so to attract sinners like the flame does moth. The problem with that is that most of the time the flashy cool concert feel is only cool to Christians tired of sitting in pews. The people that don’t know Christ can get their coffee from Starbucks, their concerts with better music and crazier pyro, and their entertainment from tv, movies and sports; so they have little need for more of it in church. Instead, we should be putting our focus into going into these places and not starting our own, less cool version. We are called to go and make disciples, not stay home and hope they see the signs. If you want to play basketball, go to the rec center and be the light of Christ there. Want coffee? Go to jittery joes and be a picture of Jesus to the kid behind the counter. We need to be missional and meet people where they are, not entertain ourselves and hope it catches on in the process. It’s time to go. Gimme your thoughts.

(taken from post “What if We Went to Them?” on Chris’ blog undergroundreformation)

May Lesson Series

undergroundstudentministry — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:45:32 +0000

May 2, 2007: How To Be An Effective, Missional Church

May 9th, 2007: What’s The Deal With Communion???

May 16th, 2007: THE REVOLUTION!

May 23rd, 2007: THE REVOLUTION! Pt. 1-”I Hate Feet!” (The Humility of Christ)

May 30th, 2007: THE REVOLUTION! Pt. 2- “The Problem with Christians Is…” (Christ’s Love for the Church)

Taming the Tongue

undergroundstudentministry — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:15 +0000

James tells us that the tongue is a powerful weapon. Talk about some of the examples he uses to describe it in chapter 3 and what he says can happen if we do not get control of it. How do we control our tongue? Why would we want to?

April Lesson Series

undergroundstudentministry — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:23:38 +0000

April 4th, 2007: The Book of James Pt. 6 (Taming the Tongue)

April 11th, 2007: The Book of James Pt. 7 (Finding True Wisdom)

April 18th, 2007: The Book of James Pt. 8 (War of the Worlds)

April 25th, 2007: The Book of James Pt. 9 (The Urgency of Prayer)

Dead Man Walking…

undergroundstudentministry — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:49:00 +0000

Last night we talked about two kinds of faith. What did James say about faith and what do we need to do in order to have this kind of faith? Also, what do you guys want to see happen in our Student Ministry (as far as what we stand for and how we relate to the world around us) and what is the best way to see that happen?

Making it Real…

undergroundstudentministry — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:12:16 +0000

Last night we talked about keeping our anger in check and making our religion real. What did James say about anger? What did he say about religion? Based on that, what are we supposed to do about it?

The Devil Made Me Do It…Right?

undergroundstudentministry — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:12:21 +0000

This week we talked about temptation and where it comes from. What were the two places that we pinpointed to be the source of temptation? How can we prevent falling into it? Also, read through the story of Job and think about how this story relates to what we talked about on Wednesday.

Trials, Trials, Trials

undergroundstudentministry — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:25:06 +0000

This week we talked about the importance of tests and trials that enter into our lives. Based on James 1:1-12, why are trials so important in our lives? What are we supposed to do when they come?

March Lesson Series

undergroundstudentministry — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:19:57 +0000

In March, we will be continuing the Series that we started at the end of February on the Book of James.

March 7th: The Devil Made Me Do It…Right? (The Book of James Pt. 2)

March 14th: I’m So Angry I Could…I Could… (The Book of James Pt. 3)

March 21st: The Trouble With Favoritism. (The Book of James Pt. 4)

March 28th: Dead Man Walking; The Problem of Faith w/o Works. (The Book of James Pt. 5)

The Underground Cafe

undergroundstudentministry — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:11:41 +0000

Hey hey!

DQ 1: Wednesday we had the Underground Cafe. After hearing the meanings and listening to the lyrics of some of these worship songs, is there anything that really stood out to you about one of the songs or something new that you learned about worship?

DQ 2: House of Joshua…really amazing band or best band of all time?