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Us For Them: a 4-Week Teaching Series for Youth Ministry TOPIC: Loving Others SCRIPTURE: Old Testament DECORATING THEME: Series thematic AGE GROUP: Students Don't you just love a little friendly competition? There's something about being a part of a team that makes you excited to root for "us" and root against "them." With people and with God, we're often quick to see others like our enemies, but God invites us to see things differently. In this 4-week series, we'll explore the stories of Abraham, Jeremiah, Jonah, Isaiah, and more, as we see how the big story of Scripture reveals that God is for us, we're called to be for others, God is for our enemies, and Jesus proves that God is for us. BIG IDEAS & BIBLE STORIES God is for you. (Creation: Genesis 1-11, 3:15, 12:1-3; Romans 5:8-10, 8:31-40.) We're called to be for others. (The call of Jeremiah: Jeremiah 1:1-9, 29:4-11; John 3:16-17; Psalm 103:3.) God is for our enemies. (Jonah: Jonah; Romans 5:8-10; Matthew 43:47) Jesus proves that God is for us. (Plan from the beginning: Genesis - Exodus; Isaiah 53; Romans 8:31-40.)

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