The You Effect: Week 3 1. Who are some famous people who have lost influence because of something they have done? 2. Who are some people you have seen regain influence? How did they do it? 3. How can regaining influence be difficult in junior high and/or high school? 4. From the following areas, where do you think you have the most influence? The least influence? Put the following areas in order of how much influence you have: a. School b. Friends c. Family d. Church e. Sports/clubs 5. When have you felt like you’ve lost influence because of a decision you’ve made? 6. How can you regain influence with others? Who is someone you trust who can help you regain influence? How can this Small Group, or someone you trust, help keep you from losing influence in the future? 7. Think of one person you have lost influence with, what is one step you can take this week toward changing the effect you have on them? THE POINT Because of Jesus, we can change the effect we have on others. GOAL OF SMALL GROUP To help students understand that they have the ability to change the effect they have others and regain influence over time. THINK ABOUT THIS Leaders, at this stage, students’ brains are still developing the ability to imagine and predict future outcomes. Not only can this lead to risky decisions, but it also means they have a difficult time seeing past their current circumstances. In other words, when they have messed up or lost trust, it can be difficult for them to imagine life ever being any different than this current moment. That’s why, as their leaders, we should be intentional about offering hope for a better future and reminding them that we believe they can change. GROUP CHALLENGE Challenge your students to write down the name of someone that they may have lost influence with and on the back write one action step they can do this week to regain their influence. Follow up to support them Scripture Passages: Luke 7:36-39 NIV - 36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. [h] 37 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. 38 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. 39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!” Luke 7:44-48 NIV - 44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume. 47 “I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.” 48 Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”

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The You Effect: Week 3

1. Who are some famous people who have lost influence because of something they have done?

2. Who are some people you have seen regain influence? How did they do it? 3. How can regaining influence be difficult in junior high and/or high school? 4. From the following areas, where do you think you have the most influence? The least

influence? Put the following areas in order of how much influence you have: a. School b. Friends c. Family d. Church e. Sports/clubs

5. When have you felt like you’ve lost influence because of a decision you’ve made? 6. How can you regain influence with others? Who is someone you trust who can help

you regain influence? How can this Small Group, or someone you trust, help keep you from losing influence in the future?

7. Think of one person you have lost influence with, what is one step you can take this week toward changing the effect you have on them?

THE POINT Because of Jesus, we can change the effect we have on others. GOAL OF SMALL GROUP To help students understand that they have the ability to change the effect they have others and regain influence over time. THINK ABOUT THIS Leaders, at this stage, students’ brains are still developing the ability to imagine and predict future outcomes. Not only can this lead to risky decisions, but it also means they have a difficult time seeing past their current circumstances. In other words, when they have messed up or lost trust, it can be difficult for them to imagine life ever being any different than this current moment. That’s why, as their leaders, we should be intentional about offering hope for a better future and reminding them that we believe they can change. GROUP CHALLENGE Challenge your students to write down the name of someone that they may have lost influence with and on the back write one action step they can do this week to regain their influence. Follow up to support them

Scripture Passages: Luke 7:36-39 NIV - 36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat.[h] 37 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. 38 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. 39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!” Luke 7:44-48 NIV - 44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume.47 “I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.” 48 Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”