Free Youth Group Games — youth games on loving others

YOUTH GROUP GAME ON LOVING OTHERS
YOUTH GROUP GAME ON LOVING OTHERS
Bible: Romans 13:8
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Bottom Line: When we love others, God’s love is shown through us.
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SUPPLIES
- Paper (one per person)
- Pen (one per person)
- 4 containers (one per team)Â
GAME PREP
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Divide students into four teams of equal size.
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Choose a leader from each team to stand at the front of his or her team.
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Before beginning the game, have each student (not a team leader) write down one of his or her favorite things (food, activity, place, or movie).
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Collect all the papers and place them into the corresponding team’s container.
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HOW TO PLAY THE GAME
Say: Let’s talk about some things that you love.
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Each person on your team has been given a piece of paper and asked to write down one favorite thing.
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It can be a food, or movie, place, or activity.
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Next, collect the from each student and put into their team’s container (bowl, hat, bucket, etc.)
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For each round, without looking, I will draw one piece of paper from each of the team’s containers.
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I will read each of the four objects, one from each team.
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Then, I will ask each team leader, which of those four objects he/she LOVES more than the other three items.
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If the team leader chooses an answer that came from his or her own team, then that team receives three points.
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If one of the other three team leaders chooses the correct answer from another team, his or her team will receive one point.
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If the team leader chooses an answer from the incorrect team, that team receives no points.
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The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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The key to winning is for students to write down things that their team leader would like, so that their team leader will choose their answers.
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For instance, if the team leader loves Star Wars, the team member might write down “Darth Vader.”
TEACH
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Say: Let’s admit it right now. It’s a lot easier to love “things” than it is to love people.
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Loving other people can be hard.
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It’s pretty easy to love our family, our friends, and people at church.
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But what about loving people that we don’t know?
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First of all, why would we even want to do that?
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And second, why does it even matter?
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Believe it or not, people had a hard time loving other people even back in the Apostle Paul’s day.
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Let’s read what the Apostle Paul wrote about to the church in Rome:
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Read Romans 13:8.
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Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law.
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Ask: How many of you have ever borrowed something from one of the people in here?
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Did you return it or pay it back?
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Allow a few responses from students after each question.
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Paul says here that we are obligated, as Christians, to love one another.
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He didn’t say we should love one another or that it would be a good idea to love one another.
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He said we are obligated to love one another.
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And he didn’t say to just tolerate one another.
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Loving others is a different story.
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In Luke chapter 10, Jesus tells a religious lawyer that he should not only love God with all his heart, soul, strength, and mind, but also that he should love his neighbor.
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The man, being a lawyer, wanted clarification.
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He asked Jesus directly, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied by relating the story of The Good Samaritan.
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Samaritans were considered outcasts in Jewish society, and to associate with them, much less “love” them, would have been unheard of.
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According to Jesus, loving other people is one of the most important things that sets Jesus’ followers apart from those that don’t know Him.
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Think about that student you know who is always picked on and made fun of because they act differently or maybe don’t like the things that you do.
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Just like the church in Rome that Paul was writing to, it is our obligation to love others in the same way that Jesus Christ loved us.
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Paul also famously said, “…while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
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What greater love is there than that?
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When we love others, the love that God showed us in sending Jesus to Earth is shown through our lives.