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Pride steals God’s glory

What is pride? How does God feel about pride?

Edom refused to worship God and obey Him because they thought that they were better than Israel and that they didn’t need God.

Obadiah 1:3 “The pride of your heart has deceived you…”

Pride blinds us

When we get caught up in how great we are, we can lose sight of how much we need God. We might not ask God for help because we think we can do everything, but we can’t. We will always need God’s help - He made you wake up today, and He’s making you breathe right now! He has that power, and He is worthy of our praise.

Directions

1. Let each child select a few colors of construction paper and cut equal size strips.
2. Walk them through spelling the books of the Bible one each strip and then tape them all together in an accordion shape so that they can take it with them and practice memorizing the books of the Old Testament.

Directions

1. Split the kids into two teams. Each team will perform a blindfolded relay - one kid from each team will be blindfolded and have to navigate through an obstacle course. Teams will compete to see who can get all their members through the course the fastest.

The Back-To-Back Get Up

Game Description

The game begins with two players sitting back-to-back with their arms hooked together, with their feet flat on the floor in front of them; and knees are up towards their chest. The goal of this youth ministry game is for the players to stand up without using any hands.

As soon as this is accomplished, add another player to hook arms with the other two players and to go from sitting to standing. Keep adding a new person each time the group successfully stands up.

Materials needed

None, just space enough to keep adding new players to the group

Follow-up lesson

Remind the group that doing this activity, (with your feet in front of you flat on the floor and knees bent and up towards the person’s chest), is close to impossible to do by yourself. Things always seem to work better with teamwork and a positive attitude.

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Buddy, Can You Share A Chair?

Game Description

Chairs will be set up just like regular Musical Chairs, with one less chair than the number of people. As the music starts, players walk around the chairs, and when the music stops, the players try to sit on a chair.

The person who does not have a chair is not out. Ask if there is anyone willing to share their chair with that person. As soon as every player is somehow seated with the new configuration, play begins again. When the music stops, now there will be two players without chairs. Hopefully, the players will scoot over and share their chair or their lap.

As more and more chairs are taken out, the players begin to sit on laps, and it gets pretty crowded, but no one is ever out of the game. As the last chair is sat on when the music stops, all of the players sit on each other’s laps, so that each person feels a part of the group.

This is one of my favorite games, because it takes caring, sharing, getting squished, and working as a team to find a place for everyone to sit on another person’s leg or lap. There will be a lot of smiles and laughter during this game!

Materials needed

Chairs for all of the players, and some type of boom box or MP3 players that can be played and paused many times.

Follow-up lesson

Ask the players what they learned by playing this game. The lessons taught in this game are powerful! Remind the youth ministry players, that God cares about everyone of them. He doesn’t want any of His children to feel like they don’t belong, or that anyone feels like a loser. When any of us take time to include other people, that leads us to a stronger relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Tangled Up

Game Description

Divide players into small groups of 8-10 people. Everyone grabs the hand of someone not standing right next to them. Players cannot let go of the other person’s hand, or they have immediately lost the game. In order to untangle, some players might go under some arms, some might go over, etc. The first team to get back into a circle wins.

Materials needed: None

Follow-up lesson

Being a part of a group is a team effort, with everyone giving their best. If one or two people don’t try, the team cannot succeed.