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Gross, Weird, True is a 4-week youth group Bible study that looks at some of the strange stories and commands in the Bible. It includes instructions on how to incorporate the 60-second games from NBC’s “Minute to Win It.” Included in this download is the complete leader guide; small groups discussion questions for each session; a screen quiz about strange things in the Bible; series art; promotional material; student handouts; a 60-second countdown timer; the original Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign files; and pretty much anything I could think of having to do with this study.
Session 1: Remove the Poop
Deuteronomy 23:12-4; 1 Peter 1:13-16
A look at one of the stranger rules of God from the old testament examining what it teaches us about God’s holiness.
Session 2: Death by Dishonor
Genesis 9:18-29; 2 Kings 2:23-24; Deuteronomy 21:18-20
Starting with the story of Noah naked in his tent and continuing through Elisha cursing youths with a bear to God’s promise in the 10 commandments this lesson takes a look at honoring your parents.
Session 3: Strong Man’s Weakness
Judges 13-16
A look at some of the stranger events that took place in the life of Samson. This lesson is small group based with students answering questions and reporting back to the group. The overall focus of the lesson is to be controlled by God instead of by our emotions.
Session 4: The Prophet/Prostitute Wedding
Hosea 1-3
Is there anything stranger than God commanding Hosea to go and get an adulterous wife? This session wraps up our weird study with a reminder that God wants us to be holy and that he will go to great lengths to help us to become like Him.
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In session 1, you mention the Strange Bible Quiz. I don’t see that anywhere. Is that available or something I need to come up with on my own?
It is the “Gross, Weird, True” Quiz in the resources folder. The name got changed somewhere in transition I guess. Sorry about that.
I can’t find even the resources folder. Am I missing something?
sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Up at the top there are 2 links. One is for just the PDF file and the other is a zip file that has both PDF and a resources folder that has other stuff in it. One of those is a PowerPoint quiz file as well as a folder of the original images I used to make the quiz.
Thank you so much for this series and all you do. Our students and staff loved this series!
I’m so glad you could use it. It was one of my favorites to lead too. Thanks for the encouragement.
Do you have any Messy game ideas for the last two session? We are enjoying them and was surprised to see there arent any for the the other sessions.
The only session that really has a “messy” game is session 2, and that is because it fit in with the bald theme, but if you are looking for some ideas for the other two sessions here are a couple to try.
Session 3
Shaving Cream Sword Fight
Materials Needed: 2 Foam Swords, Shaving Cream, a big grassy areas outside
How to play:
Each team chooses a champion and an armor bearer
Conduct sword fights between the teams using the following rules
Champions fight champions from other teams
Only two people fight at a time
Competitors face each other and attempt to hit their opponent with the foam sword. Hits to the head and sword hand don’t count.
The first person to hit their opponent wins and the other person is eliminated
In the event of a tie resent and compete again.
Only one fight happens at a time
Teams fight “round robin” style with every team fighting every other team until only 1 team has people left to fight. You probably want to write out the match ups so that you don’t miss any matches (so if you have teams A,B,C,D, and E your matches would look like this: A v B; C v D; E v A; B v C; D v E; A v C; B v D; E v C; A v D; B v E)
If a champion wins a fight he/she fights in her team’s next match
If a champion loses his/her fight that teams armor bearer fights in the next match
If an armor bearer loses the fight that team is eliminated and their matches are automatically forfeited
Keep going around the order until there is only one team left in the competition
If you are doing the GWT game then award the appropriate number of points to the team that comes in first, second, and third.
What makes this a gross game is before each fight you should add a bunch of shaving cream to the “blades” of each sword.
When the two swords clash the resulting spray of shaving cream is really quite remarkable.
Be sure that the spectators circle around the combatants so that they can get in on the shaving cream fun too.
Debrief the game by saying: Using shaving cream swords is a strange way to fight, but in the Bible there was a man named Samson who used some pretty strange ways to fight his enemies too.
Session 4
Strange Requests
Write a number of messy requests on strips of paper and place them in a basket or paper bag.
The requests will vary according to your space and materials that you have on hand, but some ideas include:
Eat an entire happy meal without using your hands
Use chocolate syrup to make someone from your team look like a pirate
Have a partner throw you 4 eggs. You must catch and hold all 4 of them with your hands. You may not set the eggs down or stick them in a pocket or article of clothing.
Kiss everyone on your team on the forehead while telling them you think they are precious.
Say the alphabet in under 20 seconds, but don’t say any of the vowels.
Make up your own actions according to your group and materials.
Have each team send a volunteer up to complete the strange request
Debrief by saying: These were some strange requests, but God had an even stranger request for Hosea. What do you think you would do if God came to you with a strange request?
I am excited about trying this lesson but I can’t find the quiz for session one even after clicking on the link to the PDF above.
The quiz is in the zip file. You can find it in the “Gross, Weird, True Complete” link above. If that file is prohibitively large for me let me know and I will try to get the quiz separated into its own download.
Just downloaded the material and very excited about using it! Watching your site for more :)
Thanks so much for this series! My kids have loved it! I was wondering if anyone has any other messy game ideas for Session 3? We used shaving cream for session 2, and it was great, but I don’t really want to use it again for this session! Thanks!
the zip file will not download
I just tried it and it worked for me. It is a big file so it may have just timed out on you. If you right click on the zip file link you should be able to choose save as and see if that works. If it doesn’t let me know the steps you used and what browser you are using and I will see if I can find a good way to get the files to you.
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