Rite of Passage Topics

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  • 2022 – Arise & Shine Generation – 15 Boys
  • 2023 – Gideon Generation – 27 Boys

Rite of Passage Topics:

  1. Spiritual Formation
  2. Life Skills
  3. Biblical Ethics
  4. Career Path
  5. Sexuality
  6. Addictions and Peer pressure
  7. Mental Health
  8. Entering into manhood

Importance:

  1. Medical benefits
  2. Cultural identification
  3. A mark of reminder (affirmation)
  4. Of greater importance is spiritual circumcision of being ‘set apart’

Circumcision of the Heart:

  • Romans 2:25-29
  • Deut 30:6, 10:14-16
  • Jer 4:4
  • 1 Cor 7:19-12
  • Gal 5:6
  • Romans 4:9-12
  • Acts 15:1-19
  • Phil 3:2-3
  • Col 2:11-13

The Roman Road:

  1. Rom 3:23 – All have sinned
  2. Rom 6:23 – The wages of sin
  3. Rom 6:23b – God’s gift
  4. Rom 10:9 – Confess and believe

Salvation/Justification is not through works/circumcision:

  • Gal 2:15-16
  • Gal 5:6

Life through the spirit:

  • Gal 5:16-24

Growth and Development

Luke 2:52

Spiritual Formation:

Is being conformed to the image of Christ for God’s glory – 2 Cor 3:17-18, Gal 4:19

This is through the help of the Holy Spirt and involves right thinking (orthodox), right behaviour (orthopraxy) and right feelings (orthopathy)

 

Charges:

  • 1 Kings 1:1,4 (Parents)
  • 1 Kings 2:1-4
  • 1 Timothy 4:12 (Set Apart)
  • Isaiah 60:1-4
  • Judges 6

Making Life choices:

  • Joshua 24:15
  • Deut  – Life and Death

Rite of Passage Graduation 2023

–2 Timothy‬ ‭2:22‬ ‭CEV‬‬
Run from temptations that capture young people. Always do the right thing. Be faithful, loving, and easy to get along with. Worship with people whose hearts are pure.

–2 Timothy‬ ‭2:22‬ ‭NLT‬‬
Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

–Genesis 39 – Life of Joseph in a foreign land.
–Judges 6:12-16 – Call of Gideon

–Two Kinds of circumcision
—Done by hands
—Done by Christ: Rom 2:25, Col 2:11