This week’s destination: Being right with God – True Repentance

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Download True Repentance Session #2 PowerPoint Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Leadership Handout Download Full audio MP3 True Repentance

MATERIALS: Laptop and sound system to play music. Multimedia projector and screen to show the PowerPoint.
8 Balloons and marker pen. Blackboard or large sheet of paper. Chalk or marking pen
Photocopy: Romans 6:23 craft and Visual Aid. Teacher Notes/Handout. Bible Verse Visual Aids and student take home ‘Sword Play Memory Verse Track’. Activity books for youth. Seven SOAP Daily Devotional Journals photocopy a set of seven for each teen to take home.

AS YOUTH ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON:
Welcome Teacher/Trainers and students. Get one of the younger children to colour the Bible Verse Visual Aid.

Download and distribute the Romans 6: 23 craft and help the youth to cut out the cross and stick it onto their track, filling out the verse. Use the Visual Aid to assist them with this craft

Demonstrate how they could share their faith using this simple track. (Pair up the youth and get them to practice)

1. GAMES: (For Junior youth only 10 minutes)
Set up the Laptop connected to the sound system to play the music.
Blow up eight balloons, write Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy on them with a marker. Play a game throwing the balloons in the air and getting the youth to catch them. Then get them to work out the order once they have got it correct throw the balloons in the air again and start the game over. Play the ‘Books of the Bible Song’ that was downloaded in Session #1 during the game and encourage them to start to learn the song. They will do that for the next two sessions until they have learnt the New Testament ‘Books of the Bible Song’ and can say the books of the New Testament from memory. This week get them to recite from Mathew to 2 Timothy.

2. TEAM GAMES: (For Junior youth only 10 minutes)
PASS THE BALLOON RELAY: (You can use the same balloons from the first game) If you have at least 10 youth, split them into even groups and have them stand in parallel lines, each youth approximately a meter apart. Give the end person an inflated balloon. Once you call START, the teams are to pass the balloon under legs then over the next person’s head until it reaches the first person in the line. The winning team is the first to hold their balloon up at the front of the line. Get them to repeat the Books of the Bible as they pass the balloons.

3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS: (For all youth 10 minutes)
(Download music videos and lyrics)
Set up the Laptop connected to the sound system to play the music for Praise and Worship
When I am baptized

4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (For all youth 5 minutes)
Born Again

5.TEACHING:
a) Review
2. If there is no absolute truth what happens? (There are no moral standards)
3. Society today knows things are wrong but they call them right, what have they become? (Deceived)
4. God’s absolute truth, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of what? (Wisdom)
5. What is the bad news? (If you don’t except God’s absolute truth that comes from His word and realize that you are a sinner you will end up in hell)
6. What was last week’s Memory Verse? (Romans 3: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God)
7. What is the good news? (You don’t have to go there)
8. Can anyone recite the first 8 books of the New Testament? (Sing the song if it will help)

b) Sword Play
Ready…Swords up… Romans 6: 23… CHARGE!
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Download and distribute the Sword Play Memory Verse Tracks one for each youth to take home)

Optional: Bible Relay Race:
Three teams of 7 each get three different parts of the Bible verse, which have to be memorized.
1. For - the - wages - of -sin - is - death,

2. The - gift -of - God - is - eternal - life

3. 1n - Christ - Jesus - our Lord - Romans - 6: 23

The participants need to run from a starting point to a board and right only one word of the verse at a time and come back to the same point. Once back, another participant from the same team would repeat this with the second word
This continues until the team writes the part of their verse correctly.
Then the teams swap and repeat the exercise until all the children have compete
To add to the fun, or for younger children, you can replace running with hopping, jumping, skipping etc.
At the end the three teams come together and shout out the complete verse

c) Teaching the Lesson - True Repentance

Set up the Multimedia projector and screen to show the PowerPoint, or connect to the TV.
Use the Teachers Notes to assist with managing the PowerPoint.
Set up the Laptop connected to the sound system to play the Faithbuilder MP3 True Repentance.

The Junior Youth OSL audio has been divided into two sessions

Download Junior Youth Curriculum Part 1 Download Junior Youth PowerPoint Part 1 Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download True Repentance Youth audio MP4 Download Youth OSL Part 1 Memory Verses for both Parts

Download Junior Youth Curriculum Part 2 Download True Repentance Part 2 Music Download Junior Youth PowerPoint Part 2 Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Junior Youth Part 2 audio MP4 Download Youth OSL Part 2 Memory Verses

SOAP:

• Review and discuss the seven SOAP BibIe Study Devotional Journals from last week.

• Download Senior Youth SOAP Devotional Bible Study handouts one for each day of the week to follow.

Download Junior Youth SOAP Devotional Bible Study.

Optional: Download the Crafts for the children

4. APPLICATION/ENCOUNTERING GOD:
Set up the Laptop connected to the sound system to play soft worship music to set the atmosphere.

The grace of God is given to us not only to forgive us but to give us the strength to not continue to live in that lifestyle anymore. It is not given for us to just keep saying sorry and carrying on as usual. You are then deceived that you are saved.

If Jesus really is your Lord and Master and you have an honest heart you will not be able to carry on in your old ways.

True repentance gives place to the grace of God, to breakthrough in our lives, Godly sorry produces repentance leading to salvation, not just saying a little ‘sinners prayer’ and think we are born again but deliverance and freedom. And He will give you the strength to live the life you need to life to glorify God.

Encourage the youth to come forward to the alter for a time of repentance. Some may want to give their lives to Jesus, some may want to recommit their lives to the Lord. Minister with your alter workers accordingly.

CLOSING PRAYER: Heavenly Father we thank you that although Jesus never sinned, He saw it fit to follow God’s plan for man by being baptized in water so that He could be an example to man. Thank you Jesus for humbling yourself and allowing John to baptize you. We know God that you are pleased with us when we obey You – thank you Holy Spirit for helping us to become obedient to God in the same way the dove came upon Jesus and God said He loved Him and was delighted in Him, let our lives be a delight to You. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

TAKE HOME MATERIAL:

Optional: ‘Take Home Quiz Activity Books’ are available for the younger children at the end of this session, they can be cut in half and shared around the class.

Optional: ‘Sword Play Memory Verse Track’ one for each youth

Information sourced from Pastor Jerry Dirmann Founder and Senior Pastor of The Rock visit his website for more great resources

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