Humility It's Your Move Road Work and Trek Groups All gather in the center of the gym, welcome, and introduction of guests, make announcements. For Sponsors: Which way are we moving? 1.How to be proud while expressing humility. 2.Look for a commitment to do at least one humble act this week.  Which Way Are We Moving Road Work & Trek Read: Philippians 2:1-8 Find a volunteer.  Continue: In this passage, Paul describes how Jesus- who is God- Humbled himself to become a human, to be a servant of other common humans and to die an undeserved death on the cross for the sake of humans. Jesus' humility is an example for all of us. When we're tempted to think we're pretty important, we need to be reminded of Jesus' attitude. We need to realize that making ourselves look important in human eyes will do little but make us look less important to God. Indeed we must put aside our own desire for power and prestige and be interested in the lives of others, like Jesus Christ. Break into Journey Groups  Moving Up  Road Work The Test Needed: About 25 note cards, half with 95-100 and the other half 60-65% written on them. Divide into smaller groops! Say: You've just taken a test. Anyone doing well on this test will likely become a doctor or a lawyer. Anyone flunking this test will likely end up jobless and homeless. Here are your scores. (Hand out the mixed cards face down to each youth.) When everyone has a card. Then ask: ·How did it feel to get a high score on the test? ·How did it feel to get a low score? Say: Wait, did I tell you that the high scores were the best? I meant the opposite. Everyone with a 65 or below will be successful and the 90 and aboves will probably end up on the street. Ask again: ·Now how did it feel to get a low score? Explain. ·How is the way you acted when you thought yo had a good score like the way some people act in life? Say: Part of what we're talking about is called pride. It's the tendency to lift ourselves up because we think we're really good at something. But that attitude is one that Jesus rejected. Tonight we're going to look at the kind of attitude Jesus had. Moving Up  Trek Needed: Dry erase marker. Use our new wall. At one end write "Anytime I'm asked" and at the other end "Never in a million years." Say: I'm going to read a few statements, show how willing you would be to act, by moving to an appropriate spot along the wall between the two descriptions. ·Stand on the wall between two descriptions. ·Take out the garbage. ·Babysit for free so a single mom in your neighborhood can go shopping. ·Clean up after a family member after they have been sick with the flu. ·Wash dinner dishes by yourself. ·Clean your gender's restroom at school. Retire to "The Pit." Say: All of these tasks need to be done by someone. Why do so few of us want to do them? There are a lot of things many of us are too proud to do. But that wasn't the attitude of Jesus. Even though he was God, he became a servant. And he wants us to have that kind of attitude, too. Tonight we're going to talk about humility. Moving In Road Work & Trek Needed: Survivor Island hand out, Survivor Island Roles. Form groups of five, if your last group is less than five just hand out less roles. Give each person in each group a slip of paper with one of the five roles. Have them each assume the characteristic of that person. (If need be, send your non-participants to an area away from the main group, but within your view.) Next, give each group a Survivor Island handout. Have one youth read the duties. Have everyone stay in character and express his or her opinion. Allow about 5-7 minutes. Road Work, form two groups for the following discussion. Trek, get back to "The Pit" (if you moved out) in one large group Discuss the following: ·What made it difficult to get the tasks assigned? ·How did the role you played affect your attitude? ·How did it feel to be assigned a dirty job when you were an important person? ·How is this like the way others sometimes act in real life? Say: Humility doesn't come easily. But Jesus, who deserved to be treated as God, gave us an example of humility that we should all strive to follow. Let's look at that example now. Moving on Road Work  Stay in the two groups.  Needed: Paper, pencils and the Philippians hand out. Say: Now let's g back to Survivor Island. Using this scripture passage as a guide, lets discuss how your character might offer to do the tasks required in following Christ's example. Assign one person in each group to jot down some of your ideas to report later. Give the youth about five minutes, and then call them together in a large group to report. Have groups tell how the characters would act differently if following Christ example.  Moving on Trek Humility is   Say: we've talked a lot about humility, but what does it really mean in our lives. What kind of things would a humble youth do? List the responses on the white board wall. Try to get at least 15 things. Say: Everyone get with a partner. Wait - then, from the list we've made, choose one thing you'll commit yourself to do in the next week. Tell your partner what it is and why you chose it. Give them a bit. Say: Now, tell your partner one reason you admire the commitment he or she made to be more humble. Moving out Road Work  Needed: Copies of the Prayer of St. Francis Bring the entire group in a circle. Tell the youth you are going to read the Prayer of St. Francis. They should listen closely to the words. Then pass out copies and read it again together. Read: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; ...where there is injury, pardon; ...where there is doubt, faith; ...where there is despair, hope; ...where there is darkness, light; ...where there is sadness, joy; O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek ...to be consoled as to console; ...to be understood as to understand; ...to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; ...it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; ...and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Moving out Trek Form a circle. If needed, use the list of humble actions you made in the "Humility Is" activity, go around the circle and have the youth say first: "Help me to live as humbly as Christ when I"&ldots;(Insert one of the humble actions or one of their own.) It would be a good idea to show them how to do it by giving them an example and then starting the activity. Come Back together in the HFLC   Prayer and Concerns  Road Work & Trek  Gather in the closing circle. Ask if anyone can explain what tonight's lesson was about? Pray! Singing "Sanctuary" time permitting. Join hands, right over left, and say the UMYF benediction.