Do you remember being a kid and feeling impatient to grow up and be old enough to stay home by yourself, earn a decent allowance, or even to drive? Then something happened and you found yourself celebrating a “milestone” birthday. Maybe you’re a reader who’s reached “forty-something” or more, and you still feel young inside!
If your small group has members of all different ages, that’s great. Your group benefits from a broad range of perspectives, opinions, life experience, and ideas of what makes comfortable seating! Among other things, your group has:
• The youth perspective or “why TV is lame”.
• The senior perspective or “how the more things change the more they stay the same.”
• The middle age perspective or “why do I need to play BrainAge™ again?”
Whatever the age demographic of your small group, there’s an excellent resource you should know about. Here’s what it has going for it:
• It’s downloadable and free
• Each study is just two pages and encourages group interaction.
• Each study includes Welcome, Word (Bible),Worship, Action Points, Useful Resources – music, movies, websites, books, and a short leader’s guide.
• Geared to youth/young adults but good for all ages.
• A short time commitment to each topical study. Each is just four weeks; then you can try another one.
• Wide choice of topics: social justice, community, end times, identity, sexuality, salvation, doubt, belonging, art and design, scriptures, gospel of Mark, gospel of Mark 2.
• Produced by The Salvation Army in Australia South. 2Love is a cousin to “Alove- The Salvation Army for a new generation” based out of the UK.
• Easy to find: Go to: www.salvationarmy.org.au/2love/main.asp. Then under “Think”, go to “Cells”, where you’ll find all twelve different studies your small group can simply download and explore together.
So why not give these studies a try and discover all God has to teach you…young, old or somewhere in between! Remember what “The Power of Positive Thinking” author Norman Vincent Peale had to say about age - “Live your life”, he said, “and forget your age.”