青少年教程 (彼得前后书*第2课) | 值得为之舍命
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这是一套在美国很受欢迎的教材，按年龄共分三部分：0-6岁学龄前儿童教程，6-12岁学龄儿童教程，和12岁以上青少年教程。我们将陆续翻译成中文，分享给大家。
这套教材里的每一篇，无论是教程还是各种活动，都独立成篇，没有先后顺序，大家可以按需要和负担选择使用。
*更多内容：thedoorofsheep.com/青少年 课程目的
帮助学生理解：逼迫和假教导在早期教会和今天都真实存在
鼓励学生建立一套不会妥协的信念
激励学生在面对逼迫时仍然能够忍耐，无论逼迫多么严厉
主题
信念、迷惑、分辨、假教导、信靠、真理
背诵经文
彼得前书 3:17
开始祷告(5-10分钟)
团队建造(10分钟)
课堂起头(10分钟)
在“把生命交托给祂”的活动中，我们看到：我们在生活中信任许多事物。但重要的是：要把信心放在正确的对象上，因为我们的属灵生命和现实生命都取决于此。
讨论问题：
你最信任什么？（家人、自己的能力、金钱、神）
你是否足够信靠神，甚至愿意为祂受逼迫，必要时舍命？
在“界线”的活动中，我们使用了一些带陷阱的问题。有些人并不知道正确答案。这也像我们今天要讨论的内容：有时候，错误的教导会进入我们的生命，其危害远比刚才的陷阱题更大。每一个我们相信的错误，都会让我们更接近撒但希望我们跨越的那条界线。
继续讨论：
你是否确定自己相信的都是正确的？你如何知道？
相信错误会怎样影响你的生命？你有过这样的经历吗？
今天我们要继续学习彼得前后书。
主题是：相信那些值得我们为之舍命的真理——一条我们不会跨越的界线。
彼得前后书中有两个重要主题：
面对逼迫仍然得胜
面对假教师仍然得胜
这些问题不仅存在于彼得时代，今天也同样存在。
请思考：你的界线在哪里？什么是值得你为之舍命的？
深入学习(30分钟)
一、胜过逼迫
读：彼得前书 3:13–22
讨论问题：
彼得在13–14节告诉读者要怎样？（不要害怕）
为什么不需要惧怕？（因为行善的人不会真正受害）
15–16节告诉基督徒要做什么？（尊主基督为圣，并随时准备回答别人，解释自己的信仰，并保持无亏的良心）
为什么彼得接着谈到耶稣的受苦？（说明行善并不代表不会受苦）
在这段经文中，我们如何从逼迫中得拯救？（通过效法耶稣的受苦，我们借着洗礼表明向神有无亏的良心）
耶稣的受苦使我们得救，这是一件奇妙的事。逼迫可能会伤害我们，但如果我们在基督里，就不能真正毁坏我们。彼得在信中进一步说明这一点。
读：彼得前书 4:12–19
讨论问题：
第12节说基督徒不应当怎样？（不要觉得奇怪）
我们应当怎样回应？（喜乐）
第14节说，当人辱骂我们时，会带来什么？（祝福，因为神的灵住在我们里面）
第19节告诉基督徒面对苦难应当怎样？（继续行善）
当时的逼迫，很可能与罗马皇帝尼禄有关。公元64–68年，尼禄发动大规模逼迫基督徒。数千人被杀，其中包括彼得。逼迫方式非常残忍：
基督徒被丢进竞技场喂狮子
被从家中抓走杀害
圣经和教会被焚毁
有记录说：尼禄把基督徒绑在柱子上点火，当作宴会照明
在竞技场中被当作娱乐
讨论问题：
这些背景是否改变了你对经文的理解？
面对这样的逼迫，人如何仍然坚持信仰？
二、胜过假教师
读：彼得后书 2:1–22
这段经文讲的是假教导。
讨论问题:
1–3节中，假教师会做什么？（暗中引入异端、贪婪、败坏）
他们的结局是什么？（毁灭、审判、定罪）
9–10节特别指出谁会受审判？（顺从私欲、轻看权柄的人）
第13节说他们会有什么结果？（遭报应）
第17节把假教师比作什么？（无水的井、暴风催逼的雾）
第22节用什么比喻？（狗吃呕吐物，猪洗净后回到泥中）
为什么对假教导使用如此严厉的语言？
在早期教会中，假教导十分普遍。
因为：
圣经尚未完全整理好
教会领袖的教导尚未普及
信仰体系尚未完全明确
许多人受骄傲、传统和败坏的影响，产生了错误教义：
例如：
关于耶稣的错误观点
关于复活的错误理解
关于圣灵的误解
关于教会生活的误导
彼得明确指出：这些假教导将面临审判。今天，我们有圣经，也有圣灵，更容易识别错误教导。然而假教导仍然存在。
应用(10分钟)
认识早期教会的逼迫和假教导是一回事，在今天划出界线又是另一回事。
让学生查找现代逼迫基督徒的例子：
例如：
《殉道者之书》（Foxe’s Book of Martyrs）
Jesus Freaks 系列
www.persecution.com（殉道者之声）
讨论：
哪些故事让你难过？
你知道今天仍有逼迫吗？
如果你面对这样的处境，你会怎样？
祷告：无论代价如何，都站立在基督一边。他们可以伤害我们，却不能毁坏基督的工作。教会常常在逼迫中增长最快。
接着查找关于假教师的资料。要非常谨慎，因为有些“揭露假教师”的资源本身也可能不可靠。学习如何分辨什么是真正的假教导？
读：
约翰一书 2:22–23
约翰一书 4:1–3
需要特别警惕的教导：那些否认或淡化耶稣是谁的教导。若有人不承认：耶稣是神耶稣是主,这是最严重的错误教导。
例如：
摩门教
耶和华见证人
伊斯兰教
印度教
佛教
新纪元思想
东方神秘主义
虽然许多神学问题可以讨论，但耶稣的神性不可妥协。
结束祷告(2分钟)
今天的信息很多。安静片刻，求神帮助你更深理解所学内容。鼓励学生本周再次阅读这些经文。然后由带领者作结束祷告。
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1 & 2 Peter
Lesson 2: Worth Dying For
LESSON OBJECTIVESGoals
1. To help students understand the presence of persecution and false teaching in the early church AND modern day
2. To encourage students to formulate a set of beliefs that they will not compromise
3. To inspire students to endure persecution, no matter how harsh and severe
Topics
Believing, Deception, Discernment, False Teaching, Trust, Truth
Scripture Memorization
1 Peter 3:17
OPENING PRAYER (5 to 10 minutes)
GROUP BUILDING (5 minutes)
Trust My Life With It (Object Talk) Click here
The Line (Activity) Click here
GETTING STARTED (10 minutes)
In the object talk, "Trust My Life With It," we saw that we trust many things in life, but it is important to trust the right things, for our spiritual and physical lives depend on it.
General Discussion:
• What do you trust most? (Family, own strengths & talent, money, God.)
• Do you trust in God enough to be persecuted for Him, to lay down your life if need be?
In the activity, "The Line," we threw in some trick questions. But some of you didn’t know the right answer. That’s true of what we’re going to talk about today. Sometimes there is a false teaching that invades our lives—much more damaging than the trick questions I just asked. Each false teaching that we believe brings us closer to a line that Satan wants us to cross.
General Discussion (Continued):
• How many of you know that you believe all the right things and nothing false? How do you know that?
• How can believing a lie affect your life? Have you ever had that happen?
Today we’re going to continue our study in 1 & 2 Peter. The topic of the day is believing in something that is worth dying for; a line we won’t cross. There are two themes that resonate throughout 1 & 2 Peter—the overcoming of persecution and overcoming false teachers. These aren’t just things that were common in Peter’s day—they are prevalent in our world too.
As we talk today, keep in mind where your line is: what is worth dying for?
DIGGING IN (30 minutes)
First, let’s look at overcoming persecution.
Read 1 Peter 3:13-22
Discussion Questions:
1. How does Peter instruct the reader in verses 13-14? (Not to be frightened.)
2. Why should people not fear? (Because they can’t be harmed if they are truly doing good.)
3. Instead of being afraid, what does Peter tell Christians to do in verses 15-16? (Set apart Christ as Lord and be prepared to answer anyone with the reason for your faith, keeping a clear conscience, etc.)
4. Why do you think Peter spends time next talking about Jesus’ suffering? (To show that doing good does not mean there will be no suffering.)
5. How can we be saved from our persecution in light of this passage? (Baptism saves us as a sign of a good conscience toward God—through the suffering of Jesus.)
It is pretty incredible to notice that the suffering of Jesus is what saves us from our own suffering. While persecution may hurt us, it cannot harm us if we are in Christ. Peter talks more in-depth about this later in this letter. Let’s check it out.
Read 1 Peter 4:12-19
Discussion Questions:
1. What does Peter say the Christians should not be in verse 12? (surprised.)
2. Instead of reacting this way, how should they react? (They should rejoice)
3. What do insults from others result in according to verse 14? (A blessing, because God’s Spirit rests on us.)
4. The reaction to suffering in the life of a Christian is what in verse 19? (To continue to do good.)
It sounds like when the Christians suffered, they should have realized that in the grand scheme, they couldn’t be harmed. Better put, the movement couldn’t be stopped. Instead, we are responsible, as believers, to simply continue doing good.
The persecution that is described here is likely the type that broke out under the Roman emperor Nero. From 64-68 AD, Nero oversaw an empire-wide persecution of Christians in which thousands (at the very least) of Christians were martyred, including Peter himself. Depending upon when 1 Peter was written, it could be that this persecution was not the empire-wide effort but localized, grassroots persecutions preceding the larger campaign. Nonetheless, these persecutions featured some grotesque practices.
Many Christians were fed to lions. They were taken from their homes and killed. Their holy books and places of worship were burned. One report records that Nero would kill Christians by impaling them on a stick and setting them on fire to provide lighting for dinner parties. They were used for sport in the coliseum, and otherwise abused in publicly graphic ways.
Discussion Questions:
• How does this change the sound of the verses we read before?
• What must it be like to live through such persecution? How do you think the people managed to do it?
Later, we’re going to look at how we face persecution today. For now, let’s look at a second struggle first-century churches faced and had to overcome—that of false teachers.
Read 2 Peter 2:1-22
This is a longer passage of Scripture than the first two we read, and it’s all about false teaching.
Discussion Questions:
1. In verses 1-3, what does Peter say false teachers will do? (Secretly introduce destructive heresies, be shameful, greedy.)
2. In that same passage, what fate awaits these heretics? (Destruction, judgment, and condemnation.)
3. In verses 4-8, Peter illustrates how the unrighteous have been judged over the years. Verses 9-10 state that judgment is especially true of whom? (Those who follow corrupt desires and despise authority.)
4. These people are brash, arrogant, and foolish. Verse 13 says what will happen to them? (They will be paid back with harm.)
5. Verse 17 likens false teachers to what? (Springs without water, mist driven by a storm.)
6. Verse 22 has strong language for false teachers. What are they like here? (A dog returning to its vomit, a pig that is washed and then goes back to the mud.)
7. Why do you think such harsh language is reserved for people who teach heresy, or things that are not orthodox doctrine?
False teaching was a prominent thing in the early church. Without the completed cannon of Scripture, without the readily accessible insights from church leaders, and without a cohesive set of beliefs—a lot of people were influenced by pride, tradition, and corruption. This resulted in false doctrine. Things that were untrue about Jesus, the resurrection, church leaders, God, the Holy Spirit, church practices, and a whole host of other issues. Peter steps up and says plainly here that these false doctrines and their teachers were doomed for judgment. There was no place in the Kingdom for them.
Now that we have the Bible, and we can commune with the Holy Spirit as Christians, it is a little easier to spot false teachers. And yet, so often, their teachings spread within Christianity just the same. In a moment, we’re going to look at modern-day false-teachers and how they impact the Church of Christ today.
MAKING IT REAL (10 minutes)
Tucked It’s one thing to recognize the presence of persecution and false teaching in the early church. It’s another thing to recognize it and draw a line in the sand today. What I want to do now is sort of explore how these issues are still effecting Christ’s Church in our time.
(Send students on a persecution scavenger hunt. All you need is an internet connection. Invite them to seek out examples of modern-day persecution among Christians. If you don’t have an internet connection in your meeting space, gather some materials ahead of time. There are books like Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and the Jesus Freaks books which recount hundreds of stories of martyrdom. Visit www.persecution.com, the website of Voice of the Martyrs, as well as www.persecution.org, the website of the International Christian Concern group. Dig up—or have students dig up—stories of modern-day persecution. Take 5-10 minutes looking over these. Then take 5-10 more minutes on the following questions.)
Discussion Questions:
• What were some of the stories you discovered? What broke your heart?
• Did you know this kind of stuff was still going on? How is it like the persecution early Christians faced?
• Now a tougher question—what do you think you would do if you faced that type of opposition in your faith? How do you think you can prepare for it?
Pray that you stand for Christ no matter the cost. It’s no different for us than it was for the first-century Christian. They can hurt us, but they can’t really do us harm. We have the power of the resurrection and the presence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Even if someone kills us, they can’t kill the movement of Jesus.
It’s interesting to me that the Church has always grown the fastest when it was the most desperate. Even during the persecution under Nero, the Church was thriving. Perhaps we would serve the church well by praying FOR persecution. Tough thought, but there may be some truth to it.
(Repeat the above exercise by researching false teachers. Be VERY CAUTIOUS about websites and make sure that each is looked at with a great deal of caution. Two websites I viewed claimed to be exposing false teachers—but had the likes of Billy Graham and the “Early Church Fathers” listed as false teachers. It is often true that heretic hunters end up looking a lot like heretics themselves. Use this as an exercise in discovering what makes a false teacher false. Then ask the following questions.)
Discussion Questions:
• What did you find in your research?
• Was this search more difficult than the first? Why/why not?
• Why do you think it is so hard to know when someone is a false teacher or not?
I want to point you toward the Bible at this confusing juncture in our study.
Read 1 John 2:22-23 and 1 John 4:1-3
Obviously, there are other ways to have wrong theology, but we should be particularly suspicious of doctrines which minimize or completely ignore Jesus. If a teacher does not claim Jesus to be God, it is a false teaching in it’s most serious form. Therefore, Mormon theology, Jehovah’s Witness theology, Muslim theology, Hindu theology, Buddhist theology, Eastern Mysticism belief and New Age practices all fall under this category. While we can theologically disagree on lots of issues, the deity of Jesus is not one of them.
CLOSING PRAYER (2 minutes)
We have covered a lot of ground today. Maybe even more than you can process. I want to spend a couple of minutes in prayer, allowing you to ask God to help your understand what we’ve covered in greater depth. I encourage you to re-read these passages this week. After a few minutes of silence, I’ll close us in prayer.
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