This is the first program as part of our new ZETEO=TO SEEK resources for Young Adult Ministry. When you order this program, we will send you a PDF of the resource material via email. Please make sure you provide an accurate email address during the checkout process.
You’re not who you were. But who are
you?
ZETEO=TO SEEK offers young adults an opportunity to assess, change, and redefine—your
beliefs, your behavior, and your identity.
ZETEO=TO SEEK invites you to join a few other young adults in a short-term group, to
explore who you are now.
Discover how you will choose
to build upon what you have learned, expand it, and move beyond it.
ZETEO=TO
SEEK can be a single short-term experience or a series of
experiences building upon each other. You decide how much sifting of your
beliefs, behavior, and identity to do. This is our first program, which looks
at who we are, our faith, our life, and how it all fits together. This program includes
five sessions that use personal reflection, discussion with others, and
meditation on scripture to help us seek—for clarity, for self understanding,
for God.
Session One: Who am I now?
Begin by looking back.
Reflect with others on the people, events, and ideas that have shaped who you
are. This will include shared things—cultural, political, economic—and things
particular to you. What have been the most important influences for you? Where
do you want to celebrate those influences and in what ways would you like to
move away from them? Where do you see God moving in your relationship to these
people, events, and ideas?
Session Two: What Do I Believe?
As a child, your faith was a
reflection of what your parents or guardians believed, but now is the time to
question and probe your own faith. What is faith, anyway? Is it believing that
certain statements are true? Is it trusting God? Is it a way of living? A way
of looking at things? Examine a few traditional statements of Christian faith
and reflect on what they mean and how—or whether—they express who you are now.
Session Three: Putting Scripture in its Place
To engage the Bible is to meet
people on a search not unlike your search. Biblical authors asked the kinds of
questions you are asking and searched as you are searching to discover who they
were and who God is. How does someone today enter into relationship with
biblical authors? How is scripture relevant and authoritative for you?
Experience a way of opening up the Bible and delving into its wisdom.
Session Four: Engaging the Soul
Traditional liturgy is
meaningful for some people but not for all. What spiritual practices, individual
and group, are right for you? Reflect on times when you were especially aware
of God’s presence. What occasioned that awareness? How did it challenge you? Is
that how you regularly meet God? Are you more of an active or a contemplative
person, more a group person or a loner? How does the church factor into your
spiritual life?
Session Five: Integrating My Faith and My Life
Integrity matters. Believing
is one thing; living what you believe is another. Through story and discussion,
probe the ways what you believe affects the decisions you make every day. What
difference does what you believe make in the life you live? What challenges,
pressure points, and growth areas is God calling you to look at?
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