OBEDIENCE & SACRIFICE GAME
Make cards displaying different activities or items important in a
teenager’s life i.e. sleep, $, girlfriend or boyfriend, sports or music,
time, etc. Have enough cards of each that each student can have an
assortment of three or four cards.
Make cards with questions on them
i.e. “Will you serve a mission?” “Will you attend seminary?” “will
you keep the Sabbath day holy?” “Will you attend YM/YW?” “Will you be
temple worthy?”. Etc. Duplicate questions if necessary so that half of
the class will each have one question card.
Have the class form two
circles. One inside the other with the students in the inside circle
facing the students in the outer circle. The students in the inside
circle each has one question card and the students in the outer circle
have 3 or 4 of the “item” cards. The inside circle stays in play while
the outer circle students walk around the inside circle. This can be
done to music. I used “Follow The Prophet”. Kind of like musical
chairs = when the music stops the inside circle students ask the outer
circle student who stops facing him the question on his card. The outer
circle student then has to decide what he will give up in order to be
obedient to the question. HE HAS TO GIVE UP A CARD to the student
asking the question. All of the students in the circles are doing this
at the same time. Start the music again and the outer circle start
walking again and the action is repeated until the outer students no
longer have any cards to “sacrifice”.
OBJECT: In order to live the
gospel, keep the commandments, and follow the prophet we have to be
willing to give up (sacrifice) all things …especially those that are
keeping us from being obedient. Take the time to discuss some of the
specific questions and the items “sacrificed “ and why that might be
necessary. When I have small group I take the time to ask this of each
student with each round.
by Georgia Fish Henrichsen
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