Bible Studies

This page links to Bible studies that we've composed over the years. The vision is eventually to pull together a nice suite of them as time allows. Alas, that "as time allows" bit is the tough one.

The Testimony Game

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themes: Testimonies, Outreach, Witnessing, Intergenerational

the main idea: Participants will experience why it's good to "always be prepared to give a good word" and discover their own testimonies that they already know.

best time to use: Any time ... easily used as a study at any "milestone" time like New Year's, beginning/end of school, etc.

tips: After playing this game with different groups, I've noticed that it works best with a group with mixed ages. This can be youth of different ages - preferrably including adults - or it can be a mixed group of children and adults in an intergenerational event. Possibly the worst scenario would be a group of untamed 8th-graders with no one else.

God-Vision Youth Rally

(not written up yet, but available eventually)

the main idea: We've heard of night-vision goggles, right? Wouldn't it be nice to have God-Vision Goggles that would let you look at people, situations, and other things the way God sees them? In this youth rally, your youth prepare four skits that illustrate this.

Each skit plays through once using human vision, then you make everyone watching put on their "God-Vision Goggles" (actually goofy cut-out paper) and you play the skit again from God's perspective. For example: In Matthew 25 we see Jesus telling us that when we have shown kindness to the least of these, then we have done so for Him. The first time through the skit you see responses to three types of needy kids at school (one kid just forgot his lunch money, maybe). The second time through you replace the needy kids with a person playing Jesus.

Present a devotional after each skit.

This is a mixture of goofiness and cornball, but also serious fun and touching moments (like when Jesus has to tenderly wash the sin (filth) off one person in the last skit and trade shirts with him).

The rally can change the lives of guests that you invite (from the neighborhood or area churches), but especially it can change the lives of the youth in your own group.

Glimpses of Grace

Laura, Tamara, and Kristy are pulling together some Bible studies that reveal God's nature through hands-on crafts. And these aren't just "crafts with Laura" either.

Link coming eventually.