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Beneath The Surface
SESSION 6
HANDS ON
Adoration is an activity that basically teaches students that worshiping is not always just singing. You have, perhaps a small group of students. All you need is a chalkboard or a white board and one writing utensil. Play quiet music for approximately 15 minutes and pass the pen to one person. That person can then approach the board and write one or two words that he/she is thankful for (i.e. forgiveness, etc.). Then the student passes the pen to anyone in the room, and so on until each person has finished their own public adoration. After each student has finished allow the group as a whole to reflect upon what has been written. This way you can give your praises to God by meditating and thanking Him for what He has done.
Gather many large rocks, not too big, but as many as you think you need. Youth leaders: tell the group on this walk to be completely silent. Once you get to your destination set them down and have them listen to "Lay your burdens down" tell them to reflect on one burden in particular. Then after the song ends ask for any volunteers, tell them to talk about their burden and throw it into the creek (if you don't have a creek or pond near your church, just pitch them into the woods)
"Without worship, we go about miserable."
A.W. Tozer
"Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped"
Jack Hayford
"When we worship together as a community of living Christians, we do not worship alone, we worship 'with all the company of heaven.'"
Marianne H. Micks
"Whenever His people gather and worship Him, God promises He will make His presence known in their midst. On the other hand, where God's people consistently neglect true spiritual worship, His manifest presence is rarely experienced."
Ralph Mahoney