I found this little video on the Internet Archive a while ago, and I thought it would be a great introduction for a talk on service. So, here’s a little study you can do using “Say Cheese.”
Introduction: Play the video for your students and then ask them what they observe in it. Their answers will vary, but there should be some discussion about eating so much that you cannot move. Ask them how this can relate to us in our spiritual lives.
Biblical text:
We are created to serve God - Ephesians 2:10 - We were created in Christ Jesus for good works.
We are saved to serve God - 2 Timothy 1:9
Often times, we take in so much at church that we become fat like the mouse in the video. We like to come to church service or youth group meetings to see what is happening, but we never get out and exercise our faith. We become so fat that we cannot move. Instead of doing this, we should be working out, serving God using our gifts, talents, and abilities. He created us to serve Him. That’s why we are still on the earth.
Application: What can you do this week to “work out” your faith? What kinds of abilities has God given you that you could use for His service?
It would be a good idea to offer a list of things that each student could do in order to help in the ministry.
Internet Archive video page
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Josh Leo, a videoblogger from Michigan, posted
this very good video that makes you think about what makes a person good or bad. He also included these questions:
- What makes a bad and good person?
- What defines popularity?
- Do the two intersect somewhere?
- Can a person be labeled bad or good based solely on their habits, appearance, actions, or morals?
I would include the following questions:
- Who says what is good or bad?
- Why is it this person or these people?
- Can everyone define their own good or bad?
Here’s Josh’s original post.
UPDATE: I used this video in a chapel service at a Christian School, and it really worked out well. I then re-edited it to include the students in it saying, “Bad guys are bad; good guys are good.” It was quite the attention getter.
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Click here to watch the Quicktime Movie
Christmas. The whole idea of God becoming a man. God in the form of a baby. These are crazy thoughts. The video captures this idea on the subject.
Thanks to Aaron over at TheVoiz.com for this video. The original post is here.
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Batman Begins is now out on video. There are plenty of ways you can use this movie to get students to think about Biblical truths. If you want to use something on the internet, you could always use the trailer. The links above will help you to use the trailer to get the discussion started even before your meeting.
Eighteenth century English philosopher Edmund Burke once said, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
In the trailer, there is the quote, “What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?”
The Bible says in James 4:17, “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.”
Discussion Questions:
- Can you think of another movie where the character was faced with the responsibility to do good, but chose not to do it?
- What would happen if the people who know to do good don’t do it?
- Have you ever depended on someone else to make a choice to help you?
- What choice did they make? How did you feel?
- Have you ever had to choose to take action to do good?
- How did it feel to know that someone else depended on your choice?
- What are some choices that we make every day that can help or hurt others?
- Have you ever felt God telling you to do something to help someone else?
- What choice did you make?
- If you didn’t do what God was telling you to do, did you feel like you were sinning?
- What should you do/would you do if you were in that situation again?
You can add to or subtract from these questions. They are possibilities. You could post the link to this trailer on your ministries website/blog and have your students respond to the questions in the comments. Then, at your next meeting, you could use their answers as the beginning to the study.
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