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What's the Point? Supplies:
Kids arrive: about 6:30-6:45
Bring it together: about 7:15pm. “Hey, glad to see you all here. Welcome to ???” Introduce newcomers: Give them a blow-pop, skittles, or Snickers bar, etc. Youth Challenge or Game: Play TP Tell All: Divide into groups of between 3 and 5. Hand each group a roll of toilet paper with the instruction that each person is to "tear off between 3 and 5 sheets" with no clarification. Once everyone has their tp squares, in their groups, each person must tell one fact about themselves for every square of TP they tore off. Announcements: upcoming activities, events. Discussion Starter: by David Boehi (revised by Danette Matty) Good to be read one at a time by several students on stage, like a goofy skit).
Does it? Seven days without prayer makes one "weak." Break up into small groups. Small Group Discussion:
(Option: Prearrange to have a couple of students “pray” w/wrong motives; see Options - Skit.) Look up and read James 4:2b - 3 (NIV) "You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." Wrap-up: Encourage your students that Jesus, even though He was fully God, even He “sought” the Lord, didn’t just squeeze God in when He needed Him; and that when we seek Him, we’ll find him. That’s the point! It doesn’t matter how, where, or when we pray so much as it matter that we pray regularly. God loves to hear from us, period! Close in – you guessed it – prayer. You can pair students off and assign them as prayer partners for the next 2 weeks. Or, you can have everyone get in groups of 3 and pray for one another, or have everyone find a place to pray individually while a worship cd plays in the background. Optional Scriptures, Points, or Questions: Skit: The Wrong Kind of Prayer A couple of students were praying in their rooms the night before their very first night in youth group. If you could have overheard them, here’s what you would have heard:
Girl: God, I just pray that at this new youth group, it will be all girls – no stupid boys. Just girls – but no mean girls. Guy: God, I know that You’ve laid it on my heart to be a missionary…to the females in my youth group. You’ve given me all the love and compassion they need. I thank You for this call, Lord. It’s not an easy call, but I’ll go. Here I am, send me! Girl: Oh, Lord, I pray that my hair won’t frizz up during youth group…and that everyone will be nice to me…because I hate mean girls….especially mean church girls! And if there are any dumb boys there, and they get any ideas about talking to me, which of course they will, I just pray that they leave me alone. Guy: God, I just have this sense that tomorrow when I go to youth group, there will be some cute girl there who’s ready for me to minister to hear. Lead me, by Your spirit, to that girl. Your word says that when we need to talk Your spirit will give us the words to say. So I pray that You’d give me the pick-up line from heaven! And I thank You that You’ve blessed me with such a pretty face and a muscular body. The combination of my self Your spirit, no girl can resist. God, you do want me to have a Christian girlfriend, don’t you? So, please point her out to me tonight!" Girl: And, Lord, don’t let anyone act dumb around me…especially boys looking for cute girls like me at youth group! But if, by chance, it’s Your will for me to meet a boy tomorrow night, that it won’t be a stupid boy...but maybe one of new boys.
By Danette Matty; Skit by Danette Matty, Ryan and Liz Underwood |
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