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"ADOPTED" by Michele Hershberger
BIBLE STUDY SESSION 110
Connect: (15 minutes)
Ask your guest to tell his or her story of adoption. Then allow time for the youth to ask questions about how it feels to be adopted. As the discussion starts to wind down, thank your guest and say: Our scripture today from Ephesians 1 also talks about adoption: the adoption that all of us experience, for we all have been adopted by God. But the question is—what exactly does that mean?

Explore the Bible: (20 minutes)
Ask for a volunteer to read the first fourteen verses of Ephesians chapter 1. If this person is adventuresome, ask him or her to try to read it without taking a breath. In the original Greek version, these verses were all one sentence!

Divide the group into smaller groups of two and have each pair write down as many blessings as they can find in these verses. They should have a list similar to this:
  • Grace to us
  • Peace
  • Blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing
  • Chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world
  • Destined us for adoption
  • Freely bestowed his glorious grace on us
  • Redemption through his blood
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