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| SESSION OUTLINE FOCUS: (5–10 minutes) Welcome students to the class. After they are seated, you need to decide (based on how students are seated) who will be the next-to-last person in the Button Game. Make a mental note of who that person is. Then tell students you need to give each one of them instructions about the Button game. One by one, tell the students that they are to count the buttons when the bowl comes to them and then state how many buttons there are. Tell the second last person to discreetly take one button while counting and hide it, but to still state the total number of buttons. The last person will count the buttons and come up one short. The class should question that person and why they can’t seem to count right. Count the buttons yourself—there will be 29. Explain to the class what happened. Discuss what happened. Ask the last person: How did you feel? Did you feel pressure to give in and think that maybe you counted wrong, or were you sure about your count and were ready to stick with it? CONNECT: (5 minutes) Ask students to spend a few minutes quietly thinking about pressures they experienced in the last week—times when they felt pressured to do something that they knew they really shouldn’t do. Invite students to share their thoughts but do not pressure anyone into sharing! Say…Knowing what’s right to do and giving in to what isn’t right is a very old problem for people—it goes way back to Adam and Eve, and the Bible is full of stories of people who made different choices when they faced that kind of pressure. Our story today is about some young guys—maybe about your age—who had some big pressures to face. Continued... |
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