Be different. For many, the college experience is defined by drinking, sex, impulsive decision-making, and destructive journeys of self-discovery. It's packaged as a consequence-free zone to have the "best time of your life." The reality is that what happens in college doesn't stay in college. There are real, lasting consequences to your decisions. You don't have to have that kind of college experience. The gospel tells us there is another way. Join student ministry leader Ben Trueblood and college pastor Brian Mills in this 4-session Bible study as they provide a biblical and practical guide for how you can have a fun, joy-filled, and spiritually enriching college experience. Features<ul><li>Personal study, accountability, and journaling options to complete between group sessions</li><li>Biblically rooted and gospel-centered</li><li>4 small-group sessions</li><li>A guide to additional resources for leaders, college students, and high school students included in the back of the book</li><li>Leader Guide in the back of the Bible study book to guide questions and discussion with small groups, including instructions for how to lead this study in a retreat setting</li><li>Free leader resources and social media assets available for download at lifeway.com</li></ul> Benefits<ul><li>Discover what it looks like to be a Christian in college.</li><li>Begin a journey of discovering who God is, who you in Christ, and what the church is meant to be.</li><li>Build a general foundation of theology.</li><li>Experience the freedom and joy that comes with the college experience while keeping your faith and character intact.</li><li>Be encouraged to establish godly relationships by meeting up and discussing the topic with another believer each week.</li><li>Pursue personal spiritual growth through individual time spent in Bible study with the content.</li></ul>

A Different College Experience - Teen Bible Study Book: Following Christ In College

Parenting & Relationships

Trueblood, Ben

Mills, Brian

Parenting

LifeWay Press

The Metamorphosis Student Book by Ben Trueblood is a guide for students to use during group study sessions. As a caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly, we too are remade through salvation. This truth is oftentimes taken for granted, but it is foundational to appreciating God’s salvation and His power. Perfect for a D-Now weekend, this five-session Bible study will show students the great lengths God went to in order to save and complete them, helping them better understand the depths and heights of His love.
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<li>Students will understand the extent of the transformation that has taken place in their lives through God’s salvation and power</li>
<li>Students will be challenged to live out the implications of this transformation that has taken place in their lives</li>
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Author: Ben Trueblood serves as the Director of Student Ministry at LifeWay Christian Resources. Before coming to LifeWay, Ben served as student pastor for more than 12 years at churches in Virginia, Alabama, and Arkansas. He and his wife, Kristen, have been married for 12 years and have two young children, Jonathan and Avery.

Metamorphosis Student Book (Volume 5)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Is your student ministry healthy? This is a question every student minister has asked. It’s a question that brings both anger and tears. You are growing in numbers, but something just didn’t feel right. It doesn't feel healthy. This is the “there must be more to student ministry than this” moment. Regardless of your ministry context, church size, denomination, or years of experience, it is possible for you to have a healthy student ministry. The three elements, explained by author Ben Trueblood, will lead you to that very thing. Student Ministry that Matters gives you and your leaders a framework to answer this question, "Is my student ministry healthy?" and help you highlight areas of improvement as you seek to lead a student ministry focused on health.

Student Ministry that Matters: 3 Elements of a Healthy Student Ministry

B&H Books

For many, the college experience is defined by drinking, sex, impulsive decision-making, and a journey of self discovery. It's packaged as a consequence-free zone to have the "best time of your life." But the reality is that what happens in college doesn't stay in college. There are real, lasting consequences to your decisions. Student ministry leaders Ben Trueblood and Brian Mills have seen this firsthand. With decades of student-ministry leadership under their belts, they have seen too many lives fall apart because of the world's view of what the college experience should be. You don't have to have that kind of college experience. Fortunately, just as the gospel redeems all of life, the gospel redeems the college experience. It tells us there is another way. In this book, Ben and Brian provide a biblical and practical guide for how you can have a fun, joy-filled, and spiritually enriching college experience while avoiding the pitfalls that have captured so many before you.

A Different College Experience: Following Christ in College

A few small changes can make a big difference.   As your students graduate high school, are they graduating from church too?   Research shows that the majority of teenagers who are active in church during high school stop attending shortly after. In a new study, LifeWay Student Ministry and LifeWay Research have partnered to identify the factors that are contributing to this disturbing trend as well as those factors that contribute to teens staying in church. In his first book, Student Ministry That Matters, Ben Trueblood laid out a clear approach to creating a healthy student ministry in any context. In this book, Ben points student ministry leaders to the hope found within this startling statistic. The solution is not a full-scale revamping of student ministry. Rather, the hope for helping students build lifelong faith and keeping them connected to the church after high school is just a few small changes away.  BenefitsPrepare students to stay connected to a local church once they graduate high schoolIdentify where we are, what we’re finding in the data, and action steps we can take in the church and in families to keep students engagedUnderstand factors that influenced students who stayed in church and those who didn’tConsider what’s going on in the home and how this contributes to students staying in or leaving a local churchIdentify tools and establish a clear and simple course of correction: Here’s where we’re missing it, where we can evaluate, and where we can move onBen Trueblood serves as the Director of Student Ministry for LifeWay Christian Resources. Ben has eighteen years of student ministry experience, fourteen of which were spent in the local church as a student pastor. In addition to his role at LifeWay Ben is involved in training, consulting, and speaking to student ministries throughout the U.S.   He is driven by a desire for student ministries to expand God’s Kingdom, to see the lives of students transformed by the gospel, and to develop students who shape the culture in which they live. Ben is also the author of Student Ministry That Matters and A Different College Experience.   Ben and his wife, Kristen, have four children. In his free time Ben enjoys family, hunting, is a huge St. Louis Cardinals fan, and is an affiliate streamer on Twitch under the name of Flashbang_CSN.   Connect with Ben on twitter at: @bentrueblood  

Within Reach: The Power of Small Changes in Keeping Students Connected

A Short Guide to Student Ministry: A Helpful Approach for Leading the Next Generation

Pruitt, Shane

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