Week 5: Transforming My Experience
We can’t grow apart from challenges to what’s familiar and comfortable to us. The Spirit leads us into adventure. The Spirit leads us into a dangerous world. To ask for the Spirit is to ask for risk. (The Me I Want To Be, Teen Edition, chapter 19)

Go Deeper
What are some of the challenges you faced this past week? What was your response to them (irritated, energized, impatient, curious)?
How have you involved God in these challenges?

Week 4: Deepening Our Relationships
A wise man once said that just as the three laws of real estate are “location, location, location,” the three laws of relationship are “observation, observation, observation.” People who give life to us are people who actually notice us. They know what we love and fear. When we work to really notice someone else, love for that person grows. When we work to really notice someone else, our soul really lives. (The Me I Want To Be, Teen Edition, chapter 15)

Go Deeper
Be honest, are your friends the kind that build you up? Support you for who you are? Do they want what’s best for you? Or do you feel like you are constantly having to prove yourself? Are you surrounding yourself with people who build you up or tear you down?

Week 3: Redeeming My Time
We become vulnerable to temptation when we are dissatisfied with our lives. The deeper our dissatisfaction, the deeper our vulnerability…because we were made for soul satisfaction. We can’t live without it. If we don’t find soul satisfaction in God, we’ll look for it somewhere else. (The Me I Want To Be, Teen Edition, chapter 11)

Go Deeper
How would you answer if someone asked, “How is your prayer life going?”
Is there something keeping you from saying, “GREAT”?
What is the importance of keeping your soul connected to God through prayer?

Week 2: Renewing The Mind
Becoming the best version of yourself, then, rests on one simple instruction: Think great thoughts! People who live great lives are people who habitually think great thoughts. Their thoughts move them toward confidence, love and joy. Trying to change your emotions by willpower alone and without allowing the stream of your thoughts to be changed by the flow of the Spirit is like disinfecting the house of the skunk smell while the skunks are still living in your basement. But God can change the way we think. (The Me I Want To Be, Teen Edition, chapter 7)

Go Deeper
Have you put much thought into the things you would like to achieve? Are these things material? Relational? Accomplishments? Physical?
How can your desires be positive? How can they be negative?

Week 1: Discovering The Spirit
Really living is never just about you; it’s a “so that” kind of thing. In other words, God designed you to really live “so that” you could be part of his mission on earth; or God wants you to really live “so that” people can be encouraged, gardens can be planted, music can be written, sick people can be helped, and schools can thrive. So when you fail to become the person God designed, all the rest of us miss out on the gift you were made to give! (The Me I Want To Be, Teen Edition, chapter 2)

Go Deeper
What are some characteristics of you? What things are you passionate about? What are you good at? How can these things be used to glorify God?