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Youth Ministry Institute

The Gospel of Luke Bible Study for Youth – Lesson 8: Luke 23-34

A bible study on the Gospel of Luke for youth based on the Yale Bible Study series.

Practice Duration 60 minutes
Lesson developed byJill Olds
Materials Checklist
  • Bibles or copies of Luke chapters 23-24
  • Images of compost piles
  • Laptop or media device with the Scene of Obi-Wan’s death from Star Wars: A New Hope (YouTube clip.)

Introduction for Leaders

Gather

  • Begin with a check in with members
  • Open with prayer
  • Read Luke 23-24 with each person reading a few verses

Engage

Select the option that best suits your group’s needs:

Exercise Option 1:

  • Reflect together on what it was like to read the words of Luke 23-24 and how it felt.
  • Talk about composting with the kids. If you have access to this, show them a compost pile, or pictures, and talk about what it means that dead things enriches the soil for new life.

Exercise Option 2:

  • Watch the video clip together. (YouTube clip)
  • Discuss how the death of Obi-Wan allows for Luke to grow stronger. “Run Luke, run,” is the first of many times Obi-Wan continues to teach Luke. His future presence is much like the Holy Spirit’s for us.

Reflect

Reflect Together on the Following Questions:

1. What does Jesus’ new life mean, and how does that connect with what we saw him teach?
2. Where are you in the story? Are you a disbelieving disciples, someone spreading the news, or somewhere in between?
3. What does it mean to you to consider that life always wins, that love always wins, that new life always comes out of terrible things? And what does that mean for how we live?
4. How is God/Jesus/the HS present with us in that new life?

Send Forth

Close the lesson in prayer (either the leader or a group member)

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