Skip to Content

Judges

(1990). Judges. S. Hamilton, MA: Center for Youth Studies.

OVERVIEW

I. Period of Forgetting God (Judges 1-3).
II. Period of Cycles of Forgetting God (Judges 3-16).

Seven cycles of Disobedience, Discipline, Despair and Deliverance (Mears, H.C. What the Bible Is All About).

YOUTH MINISTRY POSSIBILITIES

Sin Punishment Deliverer
Idolatry Eight years Othniel
Immorality Eight years Ehud and Shamgar
Godlessness Twenty years Deborah and Barak
Godlessness Seven years Gideon
Godlessness Civil war Tola and Jair
Idolatry Eighteen years Jephthah et al.
Godlessness Forty years Samson

III. Period of Confusion (Judges 17-21).

A. Religious.
B. Moral.
C. Political.

FRAMEWORK

  1. Author: Unknown, traditionally accepted to be Samuel.
  2. Location: Promised Land.
  3. Key people: Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, Samson.
  4. Historical period: About 1200-1050 B.C.
  5.  

  1. Concepts: Punishment is a certain result from ungodly living. God provides a deliverer for his people each time they forget His ways and try to live by their rules.

YOUTH MINISTRY POSSIBILITIES

IDEAS EXAMPLES
Discuss times of godlessness. Compare to above cycles (disobedience, discipline, despair, deliverance).
Limits we place on God's power. Character study of Gideon.
Power of prayer in despair. Note the times when Israel cried to the Lord (3:9; 3:15; 4:3; 6:7).
God puts a woman in leadership. The story of Deborah (4:4-5).

FINAL QUESTION
Why does God rescue his people, although they are evil and disobedient?

cCYS


Tags:
  • Share this

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • HTML tags will be transformed to conform to HTML standards.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Insert Google Map macro.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.

Copyright © 2011 Urban Youth Workers Institute.
2321 E. 4th St. Suite C607 Santa Ana, CA 92705