Connect Teaching Series Overview - Jesus and Stress

Jesus and Stress Series Overview

Stress. It’s a dominant part of your teenagers’ daily lives. Stress over schoolwork, sports, jobs, and friends. Teenagers in our culture juggle so many responsibilities and deal with so much pressure and expectations. How can we lead them to deal with stress in a Godly, Christ-centered way? Good thing Jesus had a ton to say about this.

We’re about to jump in to a new study entitled Jesus and Stress. Over the course of the next four weeks at Connect we will discuss what it means to trust God with the stress of life; that we all have a choice when it comes to dealing with our stress; that choosing to trust God with our is the right decision even if we don’t understand exactly what God is doing; and that the Holy Spirit is present in our lives to give peace and comfort.
 
I’m looking forward to learning with your teenager what Jesus teaches us about dealing with our stress. To prepare to engage with your teenager, think about doing the following:

• Pray for your teenager and the group of friends in his or her Connect Small Group.
• Think about some of your struggles and victories in how you dealt with stress in your own life during your teen years and be ready to share those with your teenager.
• Consider leading your teenager to think of a way the two of you can show the love of Christ to others in the form of a ministry action before the series is over.

Thank you for encouraging your student to be involved in this study. Please let me know if I can answer any questions you may have.

Grace,
Don