Unbroken: Part 2

Last night, we did the second part in the Unbroken series entitled "Broken." This is the part of the story where things go really bad and really wrong because of man's disobedience and sin against God. Here are a couple of points made last night.

1. Every good story starts off well, but then things get really bad before they get better. That's the same with the gospel story.

Examples: I used the examples of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The 3 Little Pigs" as fun examples to prove that every story is like this (the wolves being the really bad part).

2. Things went wrong for Adam and Eve because they lost sight of their need for God.

God created man to reflect His image and have a perfect relationship with Him so that He was all they needed. Things went wrong when they thought they needed something else or something more.

3. All of mankind is broken because of sin and it's seen all around us.

Examples: death, divorce, sickness, povertly, pornography, cheating, lying, etc.

My challenge to students was to find where the brokenness was in their life.

4. Our sin puts us in a hopelessly bad situation, seperated from God and deserving death (Romans 3:23 and 6:23). Our condition is desperate.

I finished with this thought tonight because I wanted to have students understand the weight of their sin and the brokenness in the world. Without understanding this, we will never understand our need for Christ. I left them with the idea that God is the one who created us and He is the only one who could possibly get us out of this mess...we need Him...BAD!

Next week, we are going to talk about the greatest news of all time...when God made a way to get us back into that right relationship with Him...the way He created us to be.