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Invited: a 6-Week Teaching Series for Youth Ministry TOPIC: Easter SCRIPTURE: the Gospels & Acts DECORATING THEME: Party AGE GROUP: Students There's nothing like throwing a party to celebrate the people you love. Be it for a birthday, an achievement, or a new chapter of life, parties give us a reason to gather, laugh, and create new memories together. And if we really stopped to look around, we'd find so many reasons to celebrate what's happening in our lives that the parties would never stop. In this 6-week series, we'll see what it's like when we celebrate all that God has done through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We'll celebrate that with Jesus, everyone's invited , and we'll celebrate who Jesus is. Then, we'll see how we're invited to remember what Jesus has done, let Jesus make us new, follow the Holy Spirit's lead, and how Jesus invites us to invite others. BIG IDEAS & BIBLE STORIES With Jesus, everyone's invited. (Parable of the lost son: Luke 15:11-32; Romans 3:23) We're invited to celebrate who Jesus is. (Jesus enters Jerusalem: Luke 19:28-40; Jude 1:24-25) We're invited to remember what Jesus has done. (Jesus is arrested and crucified: Luke 22:14-23, Luke 23; Isaiah 53:4-11) We're invited to let Jesus make us new. (Jesus' followers show up at the empty tomb: Luke 24:1-12; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18) We're invited to follow the Holy Spirit's lead. (Jesus sends out his disciples to share the good news: John 20:19-23; Acts 2:1-13) Jesus invites us to invite others. (Parable of the great banquet: Luke 14:15-24; Acts 9:10-20) MEMORY VERSE: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ... " - 1 Peter 1:3

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