Get It!

The focus of this day is to understand that in order to GET a Mission in life, you must understand what truth is and where you can find it.

Warmup

Fill out the following “Press Guide” with the top five things that are true about you (height, weight, position, favorite sport, favorite food, year in school, hobbies, number in family, etc.)

Share these things with a partner and discuss how you know the statements are true.

Workout

Describe the smartest/best coach that you’ve ever known. What did he/she teach you? How did you know that what they were teaching you was true? Describe a time where you got yourself into trouble and you tried to it cover it up. What happened? Was the truth discovered? How did you feel? How about when you got into trouble and tried to do the right thing? What happened? Could you change the truth?

Group 1

Read John 18:37, 38

Jesus says, “…I have come into this world to testify to the __________.”

Pilate asked, “What is ____________?”

What was Pilate asking? Why do you suppose he asked this? How do you know something is true? What if your friends would not agree? What if anybody disagrees? How do you determine what is true?

Group 2

Read John 8:32

“If you hold to my ___________…you will know the ____________ and the _______________will set you _______________.”

According to this verse, what does truth do? What does someone have to do to know the truth? Have you ever seen the truth set someone or something free? How does it set someone free?

Group 3

Read John 16:13

“When the Spirit of ___________ comes, he will ___________ you into all _________________.”

According to this passage, who is our guide in truth? Are we left by ourselves to determine truth?

John 14:6

“I am the way, ___________truth and the life.”

What does Jesus say truth is in this verse? How can a person be truth? How do you know what truth is?

Truth can only be known by knowing the Author of truth. No single person is able to understand all that is true. Jesus understood this and tells His followers that truth is known by knowing Him. Then He and His Spirit, which lives in those who have a relationship with him, will be their guide.

Put a check next to the statement(s) that are true,

Knowing God

[   ] “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” – Jesus

[   ] “I have…(come to the conclusion) that the saint both exists and does not exist after death.” – Buddha

[   ] “ are many religions in the world, but only one Christianity, for only Christianity has a God (Jesus) who gave Himself for mankind. World religions attempt to reach up to God; Christianity is God reaching down to mankind.” – Billy Graham

[   ] “Buddhism is that religion which without starting with God leads men to a stage where God’s help is not necessary.” – The Buddha Annual of Ceylon

Knowing Truth

[   ] “I am the way the truth and the life.” – Jesus

[   ] “My position is that all great religions are fundamentally equal.” – Mahatma Gandhi

[   ] “You (Allah) send who you will astray…” – Mohammed in the Koran, Surah 7:155

[   ] “The theist (believer in God), the skeptic and agnostic (believer in an impersonal Creator) may all be Hindus if they accept the Hindu system of culture and life…what counts is conduct not belief.” – Radhakrishnan, a world leading Hindu

Jesus is the Risen Savior

[   ] “I am the way the truth and the life.” – Jesus

[   ] “Jesus, son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah…Allah is the only One God.” – Mohammed in the Koran, Surah 5:171

[   ] “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile.” Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:17

[   ] “Mary stood outside the tomb…saw two angels in white seated where Jesus’ body had been…she turned around and saw Jesus standing there…Jesus said, ‘Mary.’” – John 20:11,12,14,16

[   ] “They slew Him (Jesus) not…crucified (Him)…” – Mohammed in the Koran, Surah 4:157

Cool Down

If you had to put a percentage on how much you GET IT – that is how sure you are that Jesus is the truth what would it be:

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Now, what percentage are you sure that this truth has become your truth:

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Now express to God in a written prayer what is preventing you from being more certain…