Bible Sword Drill

The leader needs to pick out several key verses from the subject being studied. Make sure everyone attending has a Bible. All Bibles need to be closed. The leader reads a passage. Everyone must wait until the leader is finished giving the passage such as John 14:1 and says, "Now." At that point, each person opens the Bible and tries to find the passage. As soon as a youth finds it, the person holds up a hand or says, "Got it." On the leader's OK, the person who first found the passage, reads it. The group can then discuss the passage or continue with more passages to look up. The person gets a point for each passage found first. The youth with the most points at the end of the game, wins. Another option is to divide the youth group into two or more groups. The group that finds a passage first receives a point. The group that gains the most points, wins. Present small prizes to the winners or let them go first when it is time for snacks.

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Sword Drill Name of Group Game: Sword Drill

Type: Indoor

Summary: Find the passage as quickly as you can! Goal: Try to be the first to earn 5 points by finding the Bible passage. Preparation: - A Bible per person, including you How to Play the Sword Drill Game:

Number:

1. Hand out a Bible for each person. Have each person

close their Bibles and hold them up.
Small Group (3 - 9 people) to

2. Explain the rules. You will open the Bible and select a

random passage (for example, John 3:16). Once you say the passage reference, each person has to try to find the passage Medium Group (10 as quickly as possible.

- 19 people)

3. Once someone has found the passage, they must read it

aloud. If the passage is correct, they get a point. The first

Age: Elementary School Time: 15 - 20 minutes

person to five points wins the game

Two Truths and a Lie Summary: Which sentence is a lie? A fun guessing game, Name of Group Game: Two Truths and great way for people to get to know one another. a Lie Goal: Correctly guess other peoples truths and fool other Type: people into guessing your lie.
Indoor Number: Preparation: - You will need to pass out a pen/pencil and paper to each person participating. How to Play the Two Truths and a Lie Game:
Small Group (3 - 9 people) to

1. Have everyone write two true sentences and one false

sentence on their papers. The sentences can be in any order that they want. Make sure that all the sentences are believable, and arent obvious. (Example Statements: I have three cats at home; I am related to a celebrity; I had lost two teeth in a biking accident).

Medium Group (10 - 19 people)

Age: Elementary School - Adult Time: 15 20 minutes

2. Each person will need to read their sentences aloud to

the group. After reading each sentence, everyone will need to think about which statements are truths are which sentence is a lie.

3. Take a vote on which statement is a lie (Who thinks

the first sentence is a lie? Who thinks the second sentence is a lie?).

4. The players who chose the lie correctly will win one
point. The person who wrote the sentences will win two points for every person that they fool (for every person who voted the truth statement was a lie).

5. Go around and follow steps 2-4 for the remaining

players. Whoever gets the most points wins the game.

"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man." -Proverbs 3:3-4 "He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful. " -1 Corinthians 1:8-9 "Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen." -1 Timothy 1:15-17
2 Peter 1:2 May undeserved kindness and peace be increased to YOU by an accurate knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 forasmuch as his divine power has given us freely all the things that concern life and godly devotion, through the accurate knowledge of the one who called us through glory and virtue. 4 Through these things he has freely given us the precious and very grand promises, that through these YOU may become sharers in divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

"Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time--God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen." -1 Timothy 6:12-16 "Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace -the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit."

"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men--the testimony given in its proper time." -1 Timothy 2:5-6