Youth study on Revelation?

[Sister-N-Christ]

Our youth group has expressed a desire to study the book of Revelation. Does anyone know of a good study that would make sense to teenagers? Thanks!

[JoelH]

I believe it is never too young to give them the full treatments from the likes of Arnold Fruchtenbaum. Many teenagers today should have no problems doing the full studies that feeds them well on both the body (physically and mentally) and spirit.

I have known some are very impressionable and are able to read Augustinbe's The City of God in full. If we don't feed them the full food at this point, they will fall on the Rick Warren materials and fullblown Emergent Church materials sooner or later.

[Chris]

I've always found Jack Kelley's articles easy to read and easy to understand. With an adult guiding them through the series, it should be pretty easy to use. It's also online so that no book purchases are required. I would strongly recommend Jack's "Revelation Times" series in the link below. I hope that helps. :thumb

http://www.gracethrufaith.com/revelation-times

[Sister-N-Christ]

Thanks so much for the ideas, folks. I will check them both out. These kids are fairly advanced, but tend to get bored with too much video, etc. They really like to read scripture and then discuss it and delve into it. My husband an I have had to grow to keep up with their thirst and questions. It is such a blessing to work with these kids.

[JoelH]

Thanks so much for the ideas, folks. I will check them both out. These kids are fairly advanced, but tend to get bored with too much video, etc. They really like to read scripture and then discuss it and delve into it. My husband an I have had to grow to keep up with their thirst and questions. It is such a blessing to work with these kids.

Thanks for the further information. I think you will need to get regular (not teen oriented) study materials for them from what you described - and quick.

Because I was like them once, and they sound like very impressionable, if you don't give them the real meat now, there is a lot of chance they will be brainwashed into the Emerging and Emergent church philosophies by the likes of Mark Driscoll and Brian McLaren or Rob Bell, not to mention the hard humanist secular thinking once they reach university. I have seen first hand evidence how the youth ministry works for the general NZ (and Western) evangelical Christendom has fallen with less preaching and less solid teaching of the Bible. More on world philosophies, less on their critical analyses, and certainly minimal systematic distillation of Bible theology.:tsk

YBIC,

Joel

[blitzkreig]

You didn't give much background to go on ... what is the age group?

IF they are well grounded in the difference between God's plans for Israel and that of the Church (dispensationalism) they could be able to work with Dr. Fruchtenbalm's very thorough book "Footsteps of the Messiah" ...

Dr F. now has he now has released a companion "Study Guide" for group study of the book ... some really good tools.

However if they not dispensational ... they are likely to get lost until they have the fundamentals which Dr. Fruchtenbaum builds upon as he himself is very dispensational.

If they are not they still may find the book very interesting I suppose .... however they will miss out on the real points which Dr. F is making.

PM me an email address and I can send you a PDF study guide for teens on dispensationalism which I found on the web quite some time ago however unfortunately the website seems to have disappeared.

[Elect1]

More Than Conquerors
By: William Hendriksen

http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=57922&netp_id=127622&event=ESRCN&item_code=WW&view=details

[Sister-N-Christ]

Hi there. Someone asked age group. We have 14-16 in that class. Hope that helps :)