Great Topics

Keep the attention of your youth with great topics like "Someone Dial 911," "Pressure to Succeed," "Decisions, Decisions," "Different Beliefs," Mysterious Books of the Bible," and many others. Build a foundation of Bible skills and knowledge with units such as "Bible Skills Basics," "Basic Christian Beliefs," "Becoming a Christian," and a wide variety of Bible book studies. Intersection's five-year scope & sequence provides confidence that youth will be offered a balanced diet of Bible study.

Flexible to Fit your Youth Department

Youth groups come in all shapes and sizes. Some churches group all youth together in one class – including both younger and older youth. Other churches have separate classes for each grade level. Regardless of your approach, Intersection’s flexible teaching guide will work. Our "Talk about the Bible" section of each session offers great options for both younger and older youth, so you get to choose what’s best for your class.

The Intersection Teaching Guide offers a wealth of ideas for teaching each session, including our "low-prep" options. With Intersection, you choose the teaching ideas that best fit your teaching style and your youth’s needs. Solid Bible background material helps teachers quickly grasp the passage being studied. Reproducible handouts are included at the end of each session.

Each Intersection session features a two-page spread of teacher preparation and solid biblical background information. The Teaching Guide offers a wide variety of options for teaching. Intersection recognizes that youth are at different stages in their life journey. With this in mind, each session of Intersection provides options for teaching both older and younger youth. Whether your youth group is large or small, Intersection is flexible enough to fit your needs.

Each session features two pages of teacher preparation and Scripture background materials.

Learning Tension – each session begins with a "learning tension," a question that focuses on an issue with which youth struggle.

Preparing Materials – most sessions require a little preparation – it may be necessary to gather certain items.

Informative Symbols – miniature symbols help the teacher know how an option is connected to the ways youth learn.

Intersection sessions have the following major components:

Why Does it Matter?
Teaching Plan
Hearing the Scripture
Talk About Life Teaching Options
Younger youth & Older youth Talk about the Bible Teaching Options
Life & Bible Intersection Teaching Options

Each session follows a process designed to help teens experience meaningful Bible study.