Hot Five Sessions
#1 Becoming a Leader
I thought the games were a little cheesy, but they get the point across. Overall a great lesson. I thought the brainstorming was good and the talkback was great. This is a great lesson for students leaders and potential student leaders to walk through. It first of all addresses the student leaders and reminds them what a leader is and they brainstorm together what there group might look like. And for the potential student leaders, it helps them get a grasp of what this is all about before they sign up for a commitment.
#8 Discover Your Spiritual Gifts, Part Deux
Great stuff! I love the assessment, and I think that the assessment needs to be taken a least every two years until the age of about 25. I thought this whole lesson hit a homerun. I would almost combine it with part one, because there wasn’t much substance in it. but, I understand the majority of the time in part two will be taken up with the assessment. This is a necessity!
#11 A Leader’s Devotional Life – Prayer
Who doesn’t need prayer? Or who can’t pray? I think your book nailed it on the head when with the model of pray, invite, tell. And I think that is why I side with the 360 model we looked at where you pray for three people 6 days a week and miss 0 opportunities. This is the starting point for every student leader. Even if your not a “student leader”, you can participate in this. This lesson is ok, the challenge is good, but this is a necessity.
#12 A Leader’s Devotional Life – Time with God
Ok, another necessity. If your not spending time with God, then where is your source of power of strength coming from? Yourself? Others? In that case priorities need to be adjusted. I thought the team building was a good idea and the lesson was great. There might be a little too much, maybe need to break into two lessons, but this is a necessity.
#19 Sharing your Faith with Your Friends
Another very important message. This lesson is a necessity because without sharing your faith, what kind of leader are you? Now, there are different ways to share your faith, not just by word of mouth or a three point strategy. I think it is alright to teach strategies and methods, but being a servant leader and striving to live for God is one of the best witnesses I have ever seen.
Cold Five Sessions
#6 What Pumps You Up?
I thought this lesson was really weak and probably not necessary. The team building and team huddle was ok, but the team study was just weak. And finally the talkback and team prayer we alright. I just don’t see this lesson having much of an impact on students. I think I would direct them more to spiritual gifts and spheres of influence.
#16 Helping Friends in Crisis – Counseling
Ok, I didn’t think this was a necessity. It would be good for students to recognize how to talk and listen to others, but I think even more then that, they need to know where to direct students in need of help. They are not qualified to deal with some of the issues that students are going through, so they need to know where to direct students with specific issues.
#17 Helping Friends in Crisis – Case Studies
Again, I thought this was ok to teach, but not necessary and my argument holds with what I said in #16 above. I don’t think we should train students to be counselors, but caring listeners and people that know where to direct others for help.
#24 Leadership Excellence
I agree that leadership is excellence, but this lesson is weak and I could only choose 5 hot lessons. There is so much that could be taught on excellence, such as paying attention to details or failing forward. But I am not sure I even agree with this lesson “Practice Makes Perfect”. I know it is a great saying, but what if you are practicing the wrong thing? Ok, maybe I being a little harsh, but I think you have to be careful teaching this lesson, because even though God is perfect, we aren’t and I don’t want to misdirect students understanding of God.
#25 The Call to Christ Is the Call to Serve – Motivation
Again, I thought this was another weak lesson and not necessary. I really like interactive teaching and object lessons, which this lesson has, but not much meat. I think that there is so much more that could be done with this lesson. I totally agree with the concept of serving and motivating people to serve, but I think by looking at people’s lives or characters of the Bible would be more beneficial.
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