Minimum Daily Requirements 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.What are the core requirements? 2.How to find the essentials for our Christian lives   Which Way Are We Moving Road Work & Trek There are certain basic requirements-core essentials-that have to be flowing in and out of all Christians. The question is if we're willing to take the time and make the effort for this kind of discipleship, because it's a big effort, a big challenge. But what are the minimum areas we need to work on? I think we'd always like an easier way, a quicker way, and a faster way-that's why infomercials are all over the tube. Good ones make us want to jump right up and get that stuff. However, just think if the power of the infomercial was used inappropriately.  Some Infomercials that probably won't make it: Eight Nearly Impossible Tips to Time Management, Parenting: The Slow Painful Method. Or how about this: Eight Time Consuming Steps to Success. I like this one-The Long Range Plan: The 4- Year Approach To Weight Loss. Everything we do, we want to be faster, quicker, easier, and simpler, and yet God's asking you to follow him whatever it takes. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to not worry about what's just the minimum, but follow him wherever he leads? That's what God asks of us. That's what God asks of us as a church. Are you willing to go wherever he goes? Break into Journey Groups  Moving Up  Road Work Play "Foolish Farmer" Needed: Hand out - Luke 12:13-21 Divide into "families" of six to eight people then give the following instructions. You are a family and must make a family decision. Everyone in the family must be in agreement; any one person may veto the decision of the group. You have just received $100,000 from an unexpected source. You must now decide as a family how you will use that money. The only requirements are that you must say very specifically what you will do with the money and you must decide in the next ten minutes. Give them each a copy of Luke 12:13-21, before they begin discussing. After each family has had sufficient time, have them come back together and share their results, along with the reasoning that went into their decision. Moving Up  Trek Needed: Paper and pencils Re-read the opening paragraph. Ask the youth if they know what we are trying to say. Allow a few minutes for discussion and clarification. Ask: Has anyone seen some of the infomercials lately? (Examples: The foot inserts, No Money Down - Home buying, Exercise videos-styles-machines, Diet pills, etc.) Divide into two groups.  Try to make a list of products that are sold by infomercial, more than just a commercial. Moving In Road Work  Needed: Puzzled Hand out from last week Have the youth complete their "word search" puzzles.  After each group is finished make 4 copies of the puzzles. Explain: Each youth may keep one copy and must give a copy to a senior higher who doesn't have one. They will present their copy after the closing circle. Place your copies in a safe area so you can get them quickly. The senior highers will wait in the circle until they receive a puzzle. Say:There are four words in your puzzles that have significance in tonight's lesson. The words choice, consequence, knowledge, and include were just used in the game "Foolish Farmer." Your family had to make a choice, you had to live with the consequences of your choice, your knowledge of the parable in Luke should have helped you make a cool Christian decision, and choices were made by all through out the exercise. You could choose to be a part of the discussion. You could have chosen to answer in such a way as to get a laugh from the group. The out come was up to you. By using last week's puzzles I hope you see how each day and each week build on each other. Each new situation grows from the past. We should all be working on the essentials that fortify our Christianity. Just like in real life, what we put into our bodies directly effects how we feel. If we are just living on "junk food" and living an unhealthy life, how can we expect our bodies to feel good and healthy?      Moving In Trek Needed: The list from the last segment, Luke 12:13-21 handout Stay in the small groups. Each group should try to come up with a Christian infomercial that sells a "product." Here's the catch. The other group gets to decide on the "must have" product your group is selling. Product examples could be: A two sided toilet plunger, A self emptying bed-for that quick start in the morning, The all Butterfinger diet, The mother of all exercise machines. Just come up with something for the other group in less than five minutes. After the products have been written down for each group, let them begin to develop their infomercial. Have each group Use Luke 12:13-21 as a reference.  Give each group at least ten minutes to come up with an idea and present it to the other. Discuss the outcome of the infomercials. Would you buy it? What were they selling? Why did you need it? Was urgency portrayed? Moving out Road Work  Play: Having the Essentials Needed: Squirt gun, 2 blindfolds, water-sucking vacuum Read: Paul said this: "I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, that you're complete in knowledge, and that you're competent to instruct one another." Of all the things that Paul could have said about the church in Rome, these were the three things he held up. These were the three areas he constantly elevated. In other words it says, "Personally I've been completely satisfied with who you are and what you're doing. You seem to be well-motivated and well-instructed, and you seem quite capable of guiding and advising one another." In this game we will serve and guide each other. Divide into two teams, each in a line across the room from the other and a few feet from the wall. For each round one person from each team is blindfolded. A squirt gun is then placed somewhere in the middle between the two teams. On "go" the two blindfolded players try to find the squirt gun. His or her teammates may help them by yelling out directions. As soon as one of the players finds the squirt gun, they may remove the blindfold and take only one shot at the other blindfolded player. The player who didn't find the squirt gun may try to run back behind his or her team's line to avoid being squirted, but they may not remove the blindfold. Sponsors keep track of points as follows:  ·Finding the squirt gun - 50 points ·Squirting the other player - 50 points ·Removing the blindfold illegally - minus 100 points ·Taking more than one shot - minus 100 points ·Shooting behind the team line - minus 50 points  Moving out Trek Try this in the large group Read: One of the minimum daily requirements is that every day we get up and say to God, "So, God, what do you plan on working on inside of me today?"  What character area is God working on in your life right now? Some of us would be saying, ahhh&ldots;not sure. We're not sure. Because we're not in touch with what God's trying to work on in our lives. Whether it's your servant hood, or how you love your enemies, or how you treat people that are different from you, or whatever it is, God has some character work he's trying to work on inside of you. If we're going to allow this work to occur, our character will be under construction at all times. And by golly, being under construction is very inconvenient and time consuming. Now your task, come up with at least 8 other essential minimum daily requirements. ·What do we need as Christians each day? ·What should we do as Christians each day? ·What are the basics and how can we get them?   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.