What to Know for Tonight!
Message: You’re a Sinner
Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-5
And we’re back!
Hey parents!
After a great summer break, we are back to having Impact every Wednesday night! Tonight we get right back into things by talking about sin. It can be an uncomfortable topic, but it’s so important we know the bad news of sin, so we can truly appreciate the good news of the Gospel.
Tonight we study Ephesians 2:1–5, focusing on our nature as sinners and our need for a Savior. Paul describes us as “dead in our sins” — not just people who make mistakes, but spiritually helpless apart from Christ. That’s the bad news. The good news comes in verses 4–5: “But God, being rich in mercy… made us alive with Christ.” Facing the weight of our sin helps us appreciate God’s grace in an even deeper way.
Important Reminder!
Impact is a phone-free environment from the time students arrive until small groups end at 8:30 p.m. If you need to reach your student in an emergency, please text us at 626-761-0229 and we’ll respond right away. Our goal is to give them freedom from distraction so they can fully engage with one another and with God’s Word.
Check below for a reminder of what we talked about last week at Impact Open House!
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Questions for the Ride Home
Where do you feel pressure to “prove yourself” apart from God?
How does knowing you were dead in sin make God’s love in Christ feel bigger?
What difference could it make in your week to remember you’ve been “made alive with Christ”?
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September Catechism
What is the Gospel?
The Gospel is the good news of a holy God who created everyone and everything. We have all sinned and are by nature sinners, deserving of eternal judgment. But God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ to live a perfect life and defeat sin by giving His life on the cross and rising again in three days. Jesus has brought victory for today and one day He will return to restore all creation and bring forth a new heaven and a new earth.
Scripture – Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
Conversation Question:
Read the creation account in Genesis 1, why do you think God created us in a different way than he created everything else?