Nature of God: Grace
11 children
1.
Icebreaker Game – Piggy in the middle!
kids in a
circle, just have to throw a ball over somebody in the middle….
2
Competitive Game – The Winner!
racing game or similar, but the LOOSER is awarded the prize
(medal)
At the end of the race the medal wen to the looser!
We discussed how fair that feeled, and tried to map this to Gods grace, wrt we
are given it even though we don’t
deserve it
3
Video - I DON'T WANT YOU!
Toy Story 1: from 24:49 – 30:05
Woody has been Andy's favourite toy but Andy has just been
given Buzz Lightyear and he is the new favourite! Woody can't come to terms
with not being number one and he succeeds in getting Buzz knocked out of the window. Buzz follows
Andy's car to the petrol station and Buzz and Woody have a fight which results in both of them being
left behind.
We discussed the clip and answered the following questions:
·
Do you think Woody really means to push Buzz out of the window?
·
Why is Woody so upset with Buzz?
·
In this clip, what are the consequences of Woody refusing to accept Buzz?
·
What would have happened if Woody had been nicer to Buzz?
·
How else could Woody have dealt with the situation?
Most of the kids picked up on the fact both characters were
wrong, and should have given grace to the other, being angry usually results in us making bad decisions
4
Bible Study – He Does this…
The kids were split in to Pairs, each have a bible verse
(below), and are tasked in finding the bible verse, and thinking up an action
that shows it.
·
Ephesians 2:3 (Once we had made God angry and
were to be punished.)
·
Ephesians 1:7 (Jesus sacrificed his blood for
us)
·
Ephesians 2:4 (God made us alive with Christ)
·
Ephesians 1:5 (God chose us to be adopted sons)
·
Ephesians 1:3 (We are blessed with every
spiritual blessing)
·
Ephesians 2:10 (God planned things for us to do
for him)
When everybody was ready, each pair read their verse and
showed their action/skit.
5
Hangman
Open up the bible, and chose one of the words in the page as
the word.. kids have to guess. Usual hangman rules…. (small link, there was a picture of Hangman in
the Toy Story video clip!)
Kids liked this!
6
Bible Study with Video : A loving Father
Showed the video :
Ask the children why they think the father was so forgiving.
We explained that the father is like God. He loves us more
than we can imagine, far more than we deserve and He treats us with grace all
the time. The father could have forgiven
his son and let him be a servant - that would have been enough. What else did
the father do to his son?
That is like God. He doesn't just forgive us; He gives us a
whole new start and provides us with all sorts of gifts as we start again with
him - even though we don't deserve it. That's grace!
