Purity Bible Study for Youth (cont.)
Purity is tough! Don’t beat yourself up about it. Remember that God’s forgiveness is total. After you repent and ask forgiveness of both God and anyone else impacted by your sin? Then you need not live in guilt.
Action Step
Develop a “spring cleaning” mentality toward anything that promotes impurity or glamorizes immorality. Throw away anything you wouldn’t want in your home if you knew that Jesus was coming to visit. In what room will you begin your cleaning?
Who Tells You How to Dress?
What’s the best way to get someone to do something? Make them believe they made up their own mind to do it! So the same happens to you. You think you make up your mind about things… But then why are you and your friends wearing the same clothes? Why do you like the same movies and music?
Someone is making up your mind for you. One day, you’ll probably look back and get embarrassed about what you’re wearing today. A decision you were so sure about is suddenly embarrassing.
If you base your choices on what TV and your friends tell you, you may make the wrong choice. But if you base decisions on God’s principles, then you’ll never go wrong. You may still make bad fashion choices, but life is more serious than clothes.
Purity Takes Planning
Finally, emphasize that purity doesn’t just happen. And the heat of the moment isn’t the time to decide your boundaries! (See Proverbs 14:15; 1 Corinthians 10:12; Lamentations 3:40.)
End the purity Bible study for youth by asking these discussion questions:
- How can we give “thought to our steps” for pure Christian living?
- What plans can we make to prevent being in tempting situations?
- How can we keep each other accountable regarding purity?
What other suggestions do you have for a purity Bible study for youth and preteens?
