TeacherAide
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Beneath The Surface 

SESSION 2

HANDS ON

     This activity allows your students to start thinking about the Bible (and possibly their need to know more of it). Get all the students in your meeting to put the chairs into a square with an equal number of chairs on all four sides.  Place a large garbage can in the center of the room with the chairs around the can and facing the can.  Ask them Bible related a question; the first one to raise their hand gets to answer the question.  If they are right they get to shoot at the can with a basketball.  If they miss, the ball can roll until another person gets it.  While the ball is rolling no one can leave his or her seat.  This is a good way to review the previous week's lesson.  Hint: give the four teams NBA names to add to the fun.

CREATING THE EXPERIENCE

Use a "George Foreman" electric grill, a couple of small steaks, stuff for a salad, and coke.  At the very beginning of the lesson, start cooking the steaks on the grill.  Don't say anything about it yet, just let the smell and sounds fill the room.  Begin to talk about some characteristics of hunger and thirst.  You can talk about how when you’re hungry you will do some crazy things.  Have the kids tell you some things they have done.  Then talk about how we need to have he same desires for the things of God.  The same way your stomach is growling now, and your mouth waters, He wants us to yearn for Him.  Psalms 63 gives a very good closure to this message.  Then to end the message have whoever brought the most visitors, or whoever won the game, or let the Youth Pastor and wife eat the steaks.

I THOUGHT I HEARD YOU SAY

"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book."

Abraham Lincoln

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." 

George Washington

"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." 

Robert E. Lee

"Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart." 

John Ruskin