青少年教程 (歌罗西书*第1课) | 基督与神的关系…祂就是神

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课程目的

• 帮助学生熟悉歌罗西书第1章

• 帮助学生明白耶稣就是神

• 鼓励学生借着基督把生命献给神

主题

神的属性、圣洁、耶稣、认识耶稣

背诵经文

歌罗西书 1:15

开始祷告(5-10分钟)

团队建造(5分钟)

（这个活动主要是介绍整个系列的主题，而不仅仅是本周内容。）好，现在让我们先来玩一个经典小游戏——“连点成图”！点击这里

如果时间允许，而且学生会喜欢的话，可以准备一些蜡笔，让他们在接下来的介绍过程中边听边涂色。

你们应该已经发现了——我们今天谈论的是“连接”。使徒保罗写给歌罗西人的信，核心主题之一就是“连接”。接下来的四周，我们会一起讨论这些连接，并看看它们与我们的生命有什么关系。

课堂起头(10分钟)

请大家翻到歌罗西书。它在新约《腓立比书》和《帖撒罗尼迦前书》之间。在开始之前，我先简单介绍一些背景资料。

歌罗西书背景

• 作者：使徒保罗

• 与以弗所书，腓立比书等一样，属于“监狱书信”

• 写于主后约60年

• 写信地点：罗马，当时保罗被软禁

• 写作目的：纠正教会中的错误教导

• 歌罗西城位于小亚细亚，也就是今天的土耳其

• 保罗本人从未亲自到过歌罗西

当我们学习歌罗西书时，很重要的一点是记住：保罗为什么要写这封信。歌罗西教会和很多教会一样，渐渐忘记了信仰真正的核心是什么。而我们会发现：这卷书今天对我们的帮助，和当年对他们的帮助一样真实。让我先告诉你们，在这卷书中我们将看到的四种“连接”：

1. 基督与神的连接（祂就是神）

2. 我们与基督／神的连接

3. 我们与这个世界的连接

4. 我们彼此之间的连接

今天，我们先来看第一种连接。

深入学习(30分钟)

今天，我们要看歌罗西书1:1-23。并且会发现：整封信都建立在一个不可动摇的事实上——

耶稣基督就是道成肉身的神。

请大家翻到歌罗西书第1章。

现在我们先把整段读一遍，然后再回头仔细分析。

读 歌罗西书 1:1-23

（请一位同学朗读整段，或者几位同学轮流朗读。）

这里的信息很多，我们不可能一次全部讲完。我们今天特别想聚焦在15-23节。但在进入之前，前14节有什么特别吸引你们注意的吗？我们再读一次。

再读 歌罗西书 1:1-14

讨论问题：

1. 这卷书是谁写的？（保罗和提摩太）

2. 你感觉作者对歌罗西人的态度如何？（开放讨论）

3. 在前7节中，作者提到“基督”多少次？（共有5次）

你们知道吗？保罗在这卷很短的书里，一共用了“基督”这个词27次。毫无疑问，基督是这里的中心人物，也是保罗所有教导的根基。接下来的经文（15-23节）清楚说明了保罗相信基督是谁。让我们再读一次。

读 歌罗西书 1:15-23

讨论问题：

1. 根据这些经文，作者说耶稣是什么？

2. 根据这些经文，作者说耶稣做了什么？

耶稣是：

• 神的形像

• 首生的

• 在万有之前

• 教会的元首

• 开始

• 从死里首先复生的

• 居首位的

  
  

耶稣：

• 创造万有

• 托住万有

• 使万有与神和好

• 借着十字架成就和平

你们明白这意味着什么吗？当我们说“耶稣是神”时，我们是在说：祂创造了宇宙中的一切。不仅如此，祂现在仍然托住这一切。天气系统、地壳运动、人类情感——都是祂所创造、所掌管的。除非祂许可，没有任何事情会发生。

讨论问题：

3. 这些内容和你平常对耶稣的想法一致吗？

4. 有没有什么内容是你以前从没想过的，或者让你开始重新认识耶稣？

（此时可以让学生继续分享他们的发现。）你也可以追问：

• “知道耶稣现在正托住万有，对你有什么感受？”

• “耶稣是神的形像，这对你意味着什么？”

关于“耶稣是神”这件事，从祂来到世上开始，就一直有人争论。你们能说出哪些宗教不相信耶稣是神吗？

• 摩门教

• 伊斯兰教

• 印度教

• 耶和华见证人

• 犹太教

基督信仰在这一点上是独特的。而保罗在这里非常清楚地陈述了他的立场。

讨论问题：

5. 你能不能从这段经文中找出理由，证明耶稣“不是神”？根据祂“不是”什么、以及祂“没有做”什么？

当我们谈到“连接”时，保罗首先强调的连接就是：耶稣与神之间的连接——祂们本是一位。

接下来的问题就是：这对我们的生命有什么影响？

再读 歌罗西书 1:21-23

再来看一段你们可能很熟悉的平行经文。

读 腓立比书 2:5-11

讨论问题：

1. 耶稣对自己“是神”这件事的态度是什么？ （腓2:6——祂并不把与神同等当作强夺的）

2. 保罗对此的回应是什么？（西1:23下——他成为基督的仆人）

3. 你的回应应该是什么？（开放讨论）

“耶稣是神”这件事，若不能扎根在我们心里，就没有意义。在23节中，保罗说：正是这个福音，使他愿意把自己献给基督服事。这对你来说是真的吗？

应用(10分钟) 

讨论问题:

1. 人们通常把时间和精力投入在哪些事情上？（工作、家庭等）

2. 你平时主要花时间做什么？ （学校、运动、教会活动、朋友等）

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活动

给每位学生16枚硬币，或者16张卫生纸小方块也可以。重点不在于物品本身，而是“16”这个数字。

假设每个人每天睡8小时。对青少年来说，这是平均值。今天我们不讨论那8小时，而是剩下的16小时。请学生说说他们每天都花时间做什么。

例如：

• 上学

• 运动

• 社团

• 作业

• 电脑

• 电子游戏

  等等。

每做一件事，就放掉一个硬币／纸片。尽量把一天的时间全部分配完。最后看看还剩下多少。

讨论问题:

1. 问题不是这些事情好不好，而是：它们是否属神？

2. 你每天花多少时间祷告、读经、服事别人？

3. 你可以怎样改变习惯， 让自己更多与基督连接？

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当你思想自己的生命时，你所做的一切，都应该建立在一个根基上：耶稣就是神。并不是说你一定要特别抽出一小时祷告读经——虽然那很好。而是：你清醒的每一个小时，都应该被你与耶稣的关系影响。如果耶稣真的是神，那我们就应当与祂连接。而这正是我们下周要继续讨论的内容。

结束祷告(2分钟)

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Colossians

Lesson 1: Christ's Connection to God... He's Him

LESSON OBJECTIVESGoals

1. For students to become familiar with Colossians 1

2. For students to understand that Jesus is God 

3. For students to give their lives to God through Christ

Topics

Character of God, Holiness, Jesus, Knowing Jesus

Scripture Memorization

Colossians 1:15

OPENING PRAYER (5 to 10 minutes)

GROUP BUILDING (5 minutes)

(This activity introduces the theme of the whole study more than it introduces this week in particular.)

Alright, to begin our study we’re going to play an old school game called connect the dots! Click here for Handout

If you have time and your students would enjoy it, get out some crayons and have them color while you go through the rest of the introduction

You’re probably catching on by now—we’re talking about connections. The letter the Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians uses connections as its major theme. For the next 4 weeks, we’re going to talk about those connections and see what they have to do with our lives.

GETTING STARTED (10 minutes)

Go ahead and open up to the book of Colossians. It’s between Philippians and 1 Thessalonians in the New Testament. Let me give you some quick info before we dive in. This info is also in your workbooks.

Background on Colossians

• Written by the Apostle Paul

• Along with Ephesians, Philippians, & others, a Prison Letter

• Written in about 60 AD

• Written from Rome where Paul was under house arrest

• Written to correct false teaching in the church

• Colossae the city was in Asia Minor, now Turkey

• Paul had never personally been to Colossae

As we approach Colossians, it’s important to remember the “why” of Paul’s writing. Colossae, like a lot of churches, struggled to remember what the faith was really all about. As we study, what we learn is just as useful today as it was back then.  Let me tell you the four connections we’re going to discover in the pages of this book, and then we’ll get into the first one this week.

Christ’s Connection to God (He’s Him)

Our Connection to Christ/God

Our Connection to This World

Our Connection to Each Other

DIGGING IN (30 minutes)

This week, we’re going to take a look at Colossians 1:1-23, and discover that this whole letter leans on one indisputable fact: Jesus Christ is God in the flesh.

So let’s all turn to Colossians 1. What we’re going to do is read the whole thing and then go back and pick it apart a little bit.

Read Colossians 1:1-23

(Have someone read the entire passage, or have a few people take turns reading)

Okay, there’s a lot of stuff in there, and there’s no way we can get into all of it. We really want to hone in on verses 15-23, but before we do that, what sticks out to you in the first 14 verses? Let's read it again.

Read Colossians 1:1-14 again

Discussion Questions

1. Who is writing this book? (Paul & Timothy)

2. How do you sense the authors feel about the Colossians? (Allow for discussion)

3. In the first 7 verses, how many times do the authors reference Christ? (There are 5 in the NIV)

Believe it or not, Paul uses the word “Christ” 27 times in this short book. There is no doubt that Christ is the central figure here, and the foundation of everything Paul writes. The next chunk of Scripture, verses 15-23, define who Paul believes Christ to be. Let’s read those verses again.

Read Colossians 1:15-23 again

Discussion Questions

1. According to those verses, what are some things that the authors claim Jesus is?

2. According to those verses, what are some things that the authors claim Jesus does?

Jesus is the image of God, firstborn of everything, before everything, head of the Church, the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, supreme. Jesus created everything, holds all things together, reconciles all things, and makes peace.

Do you guys understand the full implication of what we just read? When we say Jesus is God, we are saying that He created everything. He not only created it, but He holds it together. He invented weather patterns, tectonic plates, and human emotions. They are subject to His authority. Nothing happens unless He gives the okay.

3. How does that match up with what you usually think about Jesus?

4. Is there anything in those verses that you’ve never thought of before, or causes you to think differently?

(Use this time to allow them to explore the things they’ve discovered again. Feel free to ask follow-ups like “How does it feel to know Jesus holds everything together right now?” or “What does it mean to you to know Jesus as the image of God?”, etc.)

The deity (or God-ness) of Jesus has been an idea that has been argued about since He stepped foot on the earth. Can you name some religions that don’t believe Jesus was God? (Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Judaism)

The point is, Christians are unique in that idea. But Paul presents his case clearly here.

5. Can you pick apart this passage and make an argument that Jesus was/is NOT God, based on what He isn’t and what He doesn’t do?

As we talk about connections, the number one connection that Paul sets forth is the connection between Jesus and God: they are one in the same. The question then becomes, what difference does it make?

Read Colossians 1:21-23 again 

Let’s look at one parallel text that you probably know and then I have 3 questions to ask of you.

Read Philippians 2:5-11

Discussion Questions

1. What was Jesus’ reaction to His deity? (Php. 2:6) (Jesus did not consider equality with God something to be grasped)

2. What was Paul’s reaction? (Col. 1:23b) (That he is a servant of Christ)

3. What should your reaction be? (Allow for discussion)

The fact that Jesus is God doesn’t matter unless it takes root in our hearts. In verse 23, Paul says that it is this Gospel message that has caused him to submit himself to Christ’s service. Is that true of you?

MAKING IT REAL (10 minutes)

Discussion Questions

1. What are some things that people spend their lives devoting their time and energy to? (jobs, raising family, etc.)

2. What do you spend your time doing? (school, sports, church activities, friends, etc.)

Activity

Give each student 16 pennies or, if nothing else, 16 squares of toilet paper. It’s not as important what the 16 is, but they get something in the number of 16.Start with the assumption that everyone spends 8 hours each day sleeping. This is about average for teenagers. The challenge in this activity is not to question those 8 hours, but the other 16 hours they get each day.

Ask students what they spend their time doing. Chances are they spend quite a bit of time at school. For each hour they spend doing something, have them set one penny/square of toilet paper/whatever aside.

Go through the possibilities: school, sports, clubs, homework, computer, video games, etc. When you think you’ve exhausted the possibilities, ask them what else they might spend time doing. For each hour they spend doing something, have them set one unit aside. Do your best to round up and combine activities to set whole units of coin or toilet paper aside. Go through the whole day and see what’s left. Then ask the following questions…

Discussion Questions

1. Whether or not those things are good is not the question. The question is, are they Godly?

2. How much time did each of you say you spent each day spending time in prayer, or in Bible study, or serving others?

3. How can you change your habits to spend more time connecting with Christ? 

When you think about your life, the foundation of everything you do should be rooted in the fact that Jesus is God. It’s not so important that you set an hour aside for prayer and Bible reading, although that is good, but rather that every waking hour you have is influenced by your relationship with Jesus. If Jesus is God, we should be connected to Him, which is what we’ll be talking about next week.

CLOSING PRAYER (2 minutes)

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