Bonus Session What’s Next?

Bonus Session

What’s Next?

View “Bonus Session: What’s Next?” on the DVD

Discuss the Following with Your Group

In the video, each of the six people featured in this series express their hopes for the future, whether for themselves or for the church.

Andrzej, the welder, hopes that people can overcome their bad experiences with church and other institutions to discover a real, rich relationship with the Savior.

Christopher, the seminary student, envisions a church engaged restoratively in society, helping to preserve and protect God’s creation and to promote justice for those who are oppressed.

Laura, the fashion entrepreneur, dreams of a church so alive in God’s Spirit that Christians become life-giving and redemptive as they seek to fulfill God’s calling on their lives, whatever that may be.

Derik, the comic book artist, hopes to find a balance between stability and freedom as he endeavors to do good rather than get things.

Rebecca, the actor, wants God’s love in her to bless and enrich the lives of those around her.

Ross, the scientist, looks forward to an increasingly bright future as people seek knowledge and take action based on truth.

Which person’s hopes resonate most with you? Why?

David suggests that Christians may have some apologizing to do to teens and young adults who have found the church to be overprotective, shallow, antiscience, repressive, exclusive, or doubtless. With which of these areas does your community struggle most? Why?

How will you seek to restore the connections between your community and those who have been lost because of that struggle?

Which of the six areas is a strong point for your community, an area in which you are doing well? In what way?

How will you seek to strengthen your community’s response to these six areas of disconnection?

David suggests that we are sometimes more attached to the ways we have shaped the church than we are to a desire for young people to help shape the church in ways that are meaningful to them. How much should teens and young adults be involved in visioning the future of your faith community?

You Lost Me and this video series do not recommend shaping church around youth or young adults to the exclusion of older generations; rather, David is a strong proponent of intergenerational communities of faith. How could your faith community build relationships between generations as you seek to reconnect with young adults?

What next steps will you take with your community to encourage the faith journeys of the next generation?

Spend some time in group prayer as you bring this series to a close. Pray for the Spirit to guide and strengthen you and your group as you seek to reestablish connections between generations.

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