Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for May 31st, 2026! We played Mind Reader: Choose Adventure, a game I created that involves the whole room trying to figure out what one student is answering up front. For our teaching time, we continued with our second of three weeks in the book of Ezekiel.
We had a few announcements/reminders:
- Download our app! It has our event calendar, updates, photos, social links, podcast feed, video feed, and more! Find it on the Apple app store and Google Play store!
- The final mandatory mission trip meeting is NEXT Sunday, June 7th, following church at 12:30pm. Bring a lunch and your mission trip folder!
- Construction is continuing with the church renovations! For the next month or so, students will only be able to get to small groups and the Sunday student hour through the main entrance. Just follow the signs to the student area!
This week I continued a three-week series in the book of Ezekiel. We looked at Ezekiel 8-11, a really dark passage. God gives Ezekiel a vision of the temple in Jerusalem, where God’s own people and their leaders have filled His holy space with idols, telling themselves “The Lord doesn’t see it.” God’s presence begins to depart, but He offers a glimmer of hope: the exiles who turned back to Him will one day be brought home.
Two big ideas came out of it. First, our choices have consequences; the people didn’t fall into idol worship overnight, but drifted there one small compromise at a time, and the patterns we set now shape who we become. Second, it’s never too late; the exiles were just as guilty but turned back, and so did Paul, who went from murderer to apostle. We challenged students to ask God, “What is the choice you are asking me to make?” And then actually make it.
. Here are some follow up questions you can ask your student(s):
- The message talked about how bad choices usually happen gradually, one small compromise at a time. Can you think of an example of that, in your own life or someone else’s?
- The Israelites kept telling themselves “God doesn’t see it” to make their choices feel okay. Are there areas where it’s tempting to think that way?
- If you asked God “What’s the one choice you’re asking me to make right now?”, what do you think it would be?
Unfortunately, we had some sound glitches this week so we don’t have video or audio of the full message.
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