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| "IMPOSSIBLE? GET GOD INVOLVED" by Carol Duerksen | |||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 9
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Look at the board. As you eat the mix, one piece at a time, follow the directions on the board. For every piece of candy, talk to God about a really great thing that’s happened in your life in the last week or so. For every raisin, talk to God about something less-than-wonderful. For every Cheerio, talk to God about a person who makes you happy. For every piece of dried fruit, talk to God about a person you really don’t like at all. For every peanut, think of the times you’ve laughed in the last week, and thank God. After students are done eating, explain that they have just done a form of a spiritual discipline called the “Prayer of Examen.” This kind of prayer does just what is says—it examines different parts of our lives and involves God in that process. CONNECT WITH GOD'S WORD: Say: Now we are going to look at something that seems almost impossible to do. It’s actually related to the person you thought about earlier that you don’t like at all, and we are going to use a spiritual discipline called Lectio Divina. Lectio comes from the Latin word “to read” and Divina is the Latin word for Divine. So, Lectio Divina means “Divine Reading.” Hand out Bibles and ask students to turn to Matthew 5:43-48. Read the verses together one time, and at the end, offer this explanation about the word “perfect” in verse 48: None of us can be absolutely perfect and without sin like God. What Jesus is saying here is that we are to have every good intention toward others and the attitude to do right—to truly try every day to be kind and concerned about the well-being of others. Invite students to take a Bible and a card of instructions to a place where they can be alone for a few minutes. Depending on your situation, you may want to let them go outdoors, or to another quiet part of the building, or to spread out in the room you are in. Give these instructions (same as on the cards.) Read the passage very slowly and carefully. It will be kind of like a cow chewing its cud—you will be chewing on what you have read and thinking about it. What part really hits you? Reread it again. If Jesus was sitting next to you and saying this, what would you ask him? What do you think he would say to you? How does this apply directly to your life? To people that you know? Continued... |
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