2026 TEEN SUMMER BIBLE INTAKE CHALLENGE

This Bible Intake Challenge exists to equip and inspire FBC Teens to saturate in God’s Word during the Summer of 2026.

Between May 27 & June 24 complete each of the 3 challenges listed below (weekly times at small groups on Wednesday nights will will provide opportunities and encouragement for discussion and memory check-ins). Completion sheets are available at Pastor Joel’s office and will be available each Wednesday night. Turn in the completed form by June 24.

  1. Memorize and recite I John 4:7-12 to a youth leader or parent.

  2. Read the book of I John a total of five times (1 time per week suggested).

  3. Listen to these 5 messages from I John 4 (1 sermon per week suggested).

BONUS MEMORY AVAILABLE (those that complete memorizing I John 4:7-12, can also memorize the following passages).

  • I John 4:13-19

  • Psalm 119:33-40

MEMORY PASSAGES

I JOHN 4:7-19

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot[a] love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

PSALM 119:33-40

33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes;
    and I will keep it to the end.[f]
34 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
    and observe it with my whole heart.
35 Lead me in the path of your commandments,
    for I delight in it.
36 Incline my heart to your testimonies,
    and not to selfish gain!
37 Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
    and give me life in your ways.
38 Confirm to your servant your promise,
    that you may be feared.
39 Turn away the reproach that I dread,
    for your rules are good.
40 Behold, I long for your precepts;
    in your righteousness give me life!