1. 4. FOLLOWING STEPS 3. PRAYER STUFF! Praying – most of us want to do it, few of us do as much as we would want to. Try this – in your FREE Bible study book from Arnie, write down each day what you pray for – or better still, get a separate notebook and make a prayer journal. Write down what you pray for. Then you can remember it and also see what happens to the things you have prayed for – it’s exciting! Is your prayer important? James 5:16 says: “The prayer of an innocent person is powerful, and it can help a lot.” (CEV) THAT’S YOU! Your prayers are important & powerful! The God of the whole universe is waiting to hear from YOU! And will always listen  Do you have any questions about prayer?  Praying for others is an awesome thing – name one person you want to pray for this week. 4. TELL OTHERS! If God is real, he would be worth sharing, right? Yet it is a hard thing to do! Try and do it anyway! Tell people about Jesus. Stick up for what is right. Ask other people to youth group.  Name one person you would like to talk to about Jesus. 5. RIGHT & WRONG Pray and ask God to help you choose between right and wrong. Ask him to show you the difference and to give you the guts to make the right choices. Last of all, we want to encourage you! By being here, you are saying I want to do my best to follow God. Well, he loves you! And he thinks you are awesome even though you are young – check out what he says to YOU: 1 Tim 4:12 “Do not let anyone treat you as if you are unimportant because you are young. Instead, be an example to the believers with your words, your actions, your love, your faith, and your pure life.” (NCV) What does that verse mean to you? And just to show we want to encourage you, if you come back and tell us as leaders how you got on this week with your Bible, prayer and other stuff, we will hook you up with a Chuppa Chup! We don’t care if it turns out to be a real success or a real flop, we want to know how you got on. So, just honestly tell us next week, and the CC huppa Chup is yours!! Now, what were those 2 things that we should be doing again?

2. 1. BEGINNING STEPS 4. FOLLOWING STEPS 3. TURNING STEPS 2. SEEKING STEPS 5. SERVING STEPS GOD THE CROWD 1. Beginning Steps are when you are just checking out God, but aren’t too interested in the whole thing. 2. Seeking Steps are when you decide - yeah, maybe I will check out God a bit more. 3. Turning Steps are when you make a decision to follow God. 4. Following Steps are when you actually start doing that - doing what God wants, not what you want. 5. Serving Steps are when you live your life as much as you can for Him, and for other people. YOU ARE HERE – Following steps! This means that you have made a decision to follow God (become a christian) – but how do we do that?  Each person say when and how they made that decision to follow God. How easy is it to follow God? Not easy. How good is it to follow God? The best thing you can do!  To really follow God, what are some of the things you think you should be doing? Here are some things that the Bible talks about doing that we think might be helpful for you to really get it on in your Christian journey! The Bible sums it up – you are required to do just 2 things – LOVE GOD & LOVE OTHERS (we’ll ask you at the end what the 2 things are). 1. BIBLE STUFF! Reading the Bible every day is the best way to let more of God into your life. It is a tough thing to do, but here are some hints: Do it every day at the same time – make it a habit. Do stuff that other people you know are doing too, so you can encourage each other. Be realistic in what you want to do. If you miss a day, don’t give up – just do the next day and keep going! In fact, we are so keen that you do this that if you take this study to Arnie at the end of the night, he will give you something that you can read every day for the next 3 months! It is a booklet and has a bit of the Bible and then some stuff to explain it. It cost the church $1 each, so I’d grab one off him if I was you and then you can read a bit about God every day! And if people you know are doing it too, you can discuss each day and encourage each other! But don’t just leave God to one time in your day – think about him when you are skateboarding, with your mates, doing your paper round – use that time to be with God too!  What time would suit you to do a Bible reading? 2. CHURCH STUFF! Always try and get as much as you can out of youth group and church stuff – make a commitment to go even when you don’t feel like it. Always look to get stuff out of what is being talked about. Hang with people from church and other churches. Look to do stuff around church and be involved, no matter how young you are!  What could you be involved with at church or Youth Group?