NextGen Leaders: July- September 2023

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

Master Teacher is the teacher’s quarterly to be used with Adult Christian Life and College and Career. Each lesson contains extensive biblical exposition and specific instructions for the teacher. The outline of the lesson is reader-friendly, and includes suggestions for maximizing teacher/student interaction and topics for making the study informative and enriching. It follows the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outline from the National Council of Churches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Jul 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886350838

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The Young Adult Quarterly • Third Quarter 2023 • Vol. 51, No. 3

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The NextGen Leaders quarterly contains many features that sustain its popular appeal among young adult learners, addressing the unique needs and experiences of a life stage that encompasses educational attainment and career development. NextGen Leaders features elements to enhance and extend the learning experience for Bible study participants and those seeking greater understanding through personal study.

Printed Scripture Passages: Parallels the King James Version and the New Revised Standard Version, so students can easily compare a traditional and contemporary translation of God’s Holy Word.

Let’s Get Started: A brief introduction that sets the lesson tone for learners.

Life.Point: Questions and statements related to life to guide learners in giving new applications to biblical passages.

Life Points can lead to a complete understanding of spiritual principles as they are reflected in the lives of learners.

Lesson.Point: Succinctly declares the focal point of the lesson to aid in internalizing and retaining the message.

Remember This: The passage of Scripture most central to the text is featured prominently toward the bottom of the page.

Sidebar Questions/Activities: Sidebars offer thought-provoking questions to spark deeper personal reflection and class discussions of critical spiritual applications of God’s Word. Learners may answer these questions individually or as a small-group activity.

Online Extras: Provides additional resources via rhboyd.com.

Lesson Summary: Gives students a synopsis of the lesson, citing its essential truths.

Life.Point Discussion: Contextualizes the lesson’s truths to stimulate additional questions, interest, or a relevant call to action from students.

Life.Point Action: Offers learners a call to action based on the main point of the lesson.

Lesson material is based on International Sunday School Lessons. The International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching. Copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education, and is used by its permission.

Scriptures taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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What’s in This Quarter…

The summer quarter explores the broad sweep of biblical teaching about the nature of God’s reign, begins with Old Testament declarations of God’s righteous power including a lesson from the unit comprised of lessons from June. Both Old and New Testaments depict God as king over all the earth (see Psalm 47:2). The phrase kingdom of God takes on new significance in Jesus’ teaching, which is the focus of Unit I. The second unit considers New Testament Epistle texts that elaborate on the theme of Jesus as king and what it means for believers to participate in God’s eternal reign. The fall unit considers the role of God’s Law as it relates to faith in Christ. The lessons focus on New Testament texts that radically reinterpret the significance of the Mosaic Law for those who love Christ and respond in faith.

Unit 1— Jesus Envisions the Kingdom

Unit I, Jesus Envisions the Kingdom, presents four sessions on Jesus’ Kingdom–teachings as found in the Gospel of Matthew. The first session recounts how Jesus’ powerful acts of deliverance are evidence of God’s kingdom in our midst. The next three sessions explore Jesus’ parables of the Kingdom in Matthew 13.

Unit 2—God’s Eternal Reign

Unit II, God’s Eternal Reign," presents four sessions from the New Testament Epistles about the implications of life under God’s authority. The first session explores the fruit of life according to the law of love. The second session contrasts a life of religious rule with God’s economy. The third session reminds us that the power of God is at work in us. The unit concludes with praise for Christ, the exalted Ruler.

Unit 3—Love Completes, Law Falls Short

Unit III, Love Completes, Law Falls Short, draws on the Gospels of Luke and John. The lessons concentrate on empty acts of piety with performing the justice and love of God Lesson two, what activities honor the Sabbath, the Sabbath ought as a day of healing, and who is qualified to pass judgment.

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CONTENTS

JULY— THE PROPHETS PROCLAIM GOD’S POWER

UNIT I — JESUS ENVISIONS THE KINGDOM

AUGUST — GOD’S ETERNAL REIGN

SEPTEMBER — LOVE COMPLETES, LAW FALLS SHORT

Suggested Opening Exercises

1. Usual Signal for Beginning

2. Prayer (Closing with the Lord’s

Prayer)

3. Singing (Song To Be Selected)

4. Scripture Reading: Acts 1:1–8 (KJV)

Director: The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

School: Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

Director: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

School: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

Director: For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

School: When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

Director: And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

All: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Recitation in Concert:

Scripture Copy (KJV)

9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.

Closing Work

1. Singing

2. Sentences: Acts 2:1–4 (KJV)

1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each