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Good Call: a 4-Week Teaching Series for Youth Ministry TOPIC: Wisdom SCRIPTURE: the Old Testament DECORATING THEME: Sports AGE GROUP: Students Coaches help their teams by guiding them towards good decisions. They create the strategy, put together a game plan, and send their players out to make it happen. Wouldn't it be nice for someone to do that for all of our decisions? Thankfully, God gives us wisdom whenever we feel like we could use a good coach. In this 4-week series from Proverbs and the Epistles, we'll learn more about the wisdom God offers us whenever we want to make godly decisions. We'll see that wise people practice what God has said and share what God has given them. We'll also look at how the Holy Spirit helps wise people follow God's guidance and how wise people's words show God's love. BIG IDEAS & BIBLE STORIES Wise people practice what God has said. (Solomon asks God for wisdom: 2 Chronicles 1:7-13; James 1:22-25; Proverbs 1:7) Wise people share what God has given them. (Love with action not just with words: 1 John 3:16-20; Proverbs 22:8-9; Matthew 25:35,36,40) Wise people follow God's guidance. (Paul asks God to send the Holy Spirit: Ephesians 1:15-23; Proverbs 1:20-33; Luke 2:52) Wise people's words show God's love. (Wisdom is revealed by our actions: James 3:13-4:3; Ephesians 4:29-5:2; Matthew 12:34) MEMORY VERSE: "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." - James 1:22 (NIV)

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