OBJECTIVE: To encourage the youth to keep themselves pure by staying away from temptation and living close to the Lord.
TO MAKE: Print and cut out the Look-Ahead Decision Drama bottle label and word strips for each youth to take home. Enclose the activity in an envelope or plastic bag, sliding the label inside the bag with the word strips behind it. FOR THE GROUP ACTIVITY, glue the label on a bottle and enclose wordstrips in the bottle (shown above).
2 Visuals (Color and Black & White)
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ACTIVITY:
Look-Ahead Decision Drama
Tell the youth that if they think before temptation comes, they can make a better decision of how to STOP and say “NO” to temptation. Example: Joseph did not hesitate but RAN from the temptation of Potiphar’s wife (Genesis 39:8–10, 12).
To Play:
1. Divide the class/family into two teams.
2. A player from the first team draws a STOP or GO wordstrip to act out.
HERE’S HOW
• STOP. If the wordstrip reads “STOP,” pantomime or act out what you would do or say to STOP (run away from the temptation), but don’t say the keywords on the wordstrip. For example, if you say “smoking,” you don’t receive points.
• GO. If the wordstrip reads “GO,” pantomime or act out what you would do or say to GO (keep your heart pure), but don’t say the keywords on the wordstrip. For example, if you say “praying,” you don’t receive points.
SEE IF YOUR TEAM CAN GUESS the action; if correct, award 10 points.
The team with the most points wins.
TO KEEP THE GAME GOING FASTER give each team 30 seconds to act out and guess, otherwise, they have to try again (using the same wordstrip) after the other team takes a turn. The youth may need one minute instead of 30 seconds, and a little coaching to act out their situation/action. They can also call “time out! two times during the game to get 30 seconds from their team to coach them.
THOUGHT TREAT STOP and GO Cookies. Frost cookies red and green. Then, write with white frosting the words STOP on red frosted cookies and GO on the green cookies with frosting in a tube. Tell the youth that when we say “No” to temptation and say “Yes” to clean and pure actions, we can stay on the heaven-bound road and be happy (LOOKING AHEAD instead of back).
DISCUSSION POINTS (Scriptures, Jesus Christ, temptation, choices)
Perhaps you could ask the WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHEN, WHERE, HOW questions that invite discussion on the following.
• Just like a MAGNET the closer we are to the temptations . . .
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You’ll love using the Bright Ideas Lesson Planner page included in the pdf download (with the above activity).
