1. BEGINNING STEPS QUESTION 3 – What in life is satisfying? You try and do a new move on your skateboard – you learn it, it feels cool, but then you get bored. You wanna get a new pair of jeans you’ve seen, you finally talk Mum into it, they feel cool, but then you get bored with them and they get chucked in the wardrobe. Stuff isn’t satisfying. There’s a verse in the Bible that says “What will you gain if you own the whole world, but destroy…your soul?” What do you think that verse means? You see, you have got something that is unsatisfied. You were designed to have a friendship with God. If you haven’t got that, it is like you are missing something – a jigsaw with a piece missing or a thirsty dying person with a long way to the nearest e2 shop! You will not be satisfied in life without God! Sure, you can find things to entertain yourself, but you won’t be satisfied! QUESTION 4 - So is God important to you? So far we have seen God made you things that we think are important aren’t and… we are unsatisfied without God But is God important to you? Well, that is your choice, not his! You see, God made you and he loves you. But he’s not going to MAKE you love him. It is up to you. Your call. You can have yourself as the your best friend. Or you can have the creator of the universe, the God who loves you as your best friend. What reasons might you have for NOT wanting to find out more about God. What reasons might you have for wanting to find out more about God. I’d encourage you to really think about it. God isn’t afraid of you saying “Are you real God? Should you be important in my life?” Check him out! 1. BEGINNING STEPS

QUESTION 1 - Does God exist? QUESTION 2 – What is important? YOU ARE HERE – Beginning steps! That means you are kind of hearing about God through you family or school or Uth group, but at the moment, you aren’t too interested. What reasons do you have for coming to Uth group? QUESTION 1 - Does God exist? Stand on an imaginary line running down the centre of the room – one end is you know God is real, the other end end you know he isn’t. Stand where you think! You must be willing to say WHY you think that This study – who do you think made it? The clothes you are wearing who made them? This building – who made it? When we look at something, we can tell straight away if it has been designed or just happened by accident. How can you tell if something is designed? But you can’t see God, right? How can you believe in someone you can’t see and haven’t met? Good question. But then again, you told us that a builder built this building, yet I bet you haven’t ever met him (or her!) You see, you know that a builder built this because it is a – wait for it – a building! The same thing with God – you can know he made the universe because it is designed (not an accident) and because no one else could make it but God! Don’t let anyone fool you and say it all happened by accident. QUESTION 2 – What is important? What is the most important thing in your life: The most important things in our lives come and go – they aren’t really satisfying. What was important a year ago isn’t important now, and what is important now probably won’t be in a years time. The most important person for most of us is the person we see when we look in one of these things: Yet the same person that looks back at us from the mirror is the person who disappoints us, frustrates us and gets us in trouble! If the most important person I know is me, it’s gonna be a bit of a disappointing life! There has to be something better than us and “things” – something worth living for – something to make this life worthwhile! GOD 5. SERVING STEPS 4. FOLLOWING STEPS 1. Beginning Steps are when you are just checking out God, but aren’t too interested in the whole thing. 2. Seeking Steps are when you decide - yeah, maybe I will check out God a bit more. 3. Turning Steps are when you make a decision to follow God. 4. Following Steps are when you actually start doing that - doing what God wants, not what you want. 5. Serving Steps are when you live your life as much as you can for Him, and for other people. 3. TURNING STEPS 2. SEEKING STEPS 1. BEGINNING STEPS THE CROWD