Session Two: Discover Your Gifts

HOW TO GET STARTED

HEART OF FINE ARTS We are so excited you chose to join us for the series Heart of Fine Arts!

It is our prayer that as your students grow in understanding their God-given gifts and abilities, they will use those to glorify God in all aspects of their lives.

READY TO GET STARTED? Here’s what you need to know.

Explore the session guides and quickly look over the few resources you’ll need for your small group. With a printable or mobile version of the Leader Guide and Student Takeaways, you can easily prep for your Heart of Fine Arts sessions.

Included on your Heart of Fine Arts Flash Drive: XX Postables—Promote your small group meeting time and reinforce what your students are learning throughout Heart of Fine Arts. Whether you’re posting on Twitter®, Instagram®, or Facebook®, you’ll be able to effectively communicate the message of Heart of Fine Arts using the provided postables.

XX Leader Guide—In the Leader Guide you’ll find everything you need to lead your small group successfully. Each session’s Leader Guide contains unique games, get-to-know-you questions, prompts for thought-provoking discussion, and a challenge to reinforce what your students learned.

XX Student Takeaway—Sometimes less is more. With this takeaway sheet, students will be left with a simple, yet impactful reminder of what they learned in each session. With four takeaways per page, you can print and pass them out, or using the mobile version, you can text a reminder to your students to use the takeaway as their phone wallpaper.

XX Session Videos—Each session video is led by Johnnie Wilson, Executive Pastor/ Student Ministries Director at Faith Assembly in Orlando, FL. Each video also showcases interviews of students who are discovering, developing, and deploying their God-given gifts and abilities.

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Permission is granted to duplicate for local church use only.

HOW TO GET STARTED

SCOPE & SEQUENCE Heart of Fine Arts is comprised of six sessions designed to encourage your students in discovering, developing, and deploying their gifts. Sessions will take approximately 45 minutes, and are made up of these segments: XX Welcome—Choose the game or questions to get your students talking. If time allows, do both!

Game Starter Q&A XX Prayer & Bible XX Session Video—Watch the video and discuss the prompted questions.

XX Challenge—Deliver the final words of encouragement and instruction.

XX Takeaway—Give your students a clear way to apply what they’ve learned before they leave.

Session

Session Verse

Student Takeaway Challenge

1

DISCOVER YOUR IDENTITY

Ephesians 2:10

Ask God to show you and help you understand how He sees you.

2

DISCOVER YOUR GIFTS

1 Corinthians 12:4–6

Take a step out of your comfort zone and discover what gifts God wants to show you that you have.

3

DEVELOP YOUR PASSION

John 15:16

Discuss with a friend what the process of discipleship looks like in your life.

4

DEVELOP YOUR GIFTS

Proverbs 21:5

Identify and pray about practical ways to better develop your gifts.

5

DEPLOY YOUR MISSION

1 Peter 4:10

Think of three people who don’t know Jesus. Pray for them, and invite them to come to church with you!

6

DEPLOY YOUR GIFTS

Romans 12:6–8

Talk to your youth leader about ways to get involved in your church and community using your gifts.

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Permission is granted to duplicate for local church use only.

SESSION TWO

DISCOVER YOUR GIFTS There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all.

There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.

1 Corinthians 12:4–6 LEADER OVERVIEW This session will look at the process of your students discovering the gifts God has given them. Exploring various interests and moving outside their comfort zone can help them identify their unique talents, which at times takes trial and error.

WELCOME Choose one of the following or do both with your group as time allows: GAME: Blind Detective XX On a piece of paper, each student will write a characteristic they believe they have or would like to have.

Leader Tip: Suggest that students consider personality traits or a gifting they are proud of.

Make the students aware that these will be shared with the group.

XX Collect the papers and redistribute them at random. Without looking at their new paper, students will tape them to their foreheads.

XX Students have five minutes to move around the room and ask questions to help them guess the characteristic on their forehead.

XX Each student may only ask three questions of each peer and must move on if they do not guess what is on their paper.

STARTER Q&A XX Would you rather be good at a lot of things or excellent at only one thing?

XX Imagine you woke up one morning with a superpower. What superpower would you want and why?

XX If you were so wealthy that you never had to work a job, what would you do with your time?

PRAYER & BIBLE SAY // Dear God, thank You for giving each of us unique gifts! Help us to have the courage to explore the passions and talents You have instilled in us. As we continue to learn, let us discover more about how we can use our gifts to glorify You. Amen.

Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation.

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Permission is granted for local church use/duplication only.

SESSION TWO

DISCOVER YOUR GIFTS READ // Read or ask a student to read 1 Corinthians 12:4–6, then discuss thoughts on the passage.

VIDEO PLAY // Session Two Video (Click Here) DISCUSS // The video will prompt group discussion for the following questions: XX How have your background and past experiences helped to shape and identify your abilities and passions?

XX Have you ever felt like a failure because the outcome of an event wasn’t what you wanted or expected? For example, maybe you didn’t win a competition you thought you should have.

How did that experience shape or influence you in the future?

XX Has a parent, teacher, or leader helped you discover or develop your gifts?

What was it like interacting with them?

XX Second Timothy 1:7 says, “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (NKJV). How does it make you feel knowing that those gifts are already in you?

How can you use those gifts, rather than a spirit of fear, to guide you as you discover what else God has for you?

CHALLENGE SAY // It can be easy to let fear keep you from using your gifts, but don’t let it hold you back. Take a step out of your comfort zone and discover the gifts God wants to reveal in your life.

TAKEAWAY SAY // Talk to a parent or leader you trust about skills or talents they see in you.

Discuss and write down opportunities to get outside your comfort zone and explore how to use those skills or talents.

CLOSING // Conclude your time together by leading in prayer or asking for a student volunteer to pray over the group. Remember to allow time for group members to share special needs and prayer requests as well.

Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are taken from the New King James Version®.

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Permission is granted for local church use/duplication only.