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Description
One of the biggest challenges right now is the Back to School blues.
Summer is over and the reality of school has set back in again.
Everyones back to pursuing something. Popularity, grades, sports,
maybe even aspiring to music careers on YouTube, everyone faces the
pressure to perform.
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This game is great to blow off some steam and burn off a little energy
in the youth group. As typical in any game of tag, it is a game of
pursuit. This lends itself to a discussion of the things we pursue in life
and what the Bible says we should pursue.
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What to Do
1. Choose someone to be the cat and another person to be
the mouse then ask the rest of the youth to hold hands
and form a circle around the mouse.
2. Have every two persons in the circle to drop hands so that
they are in pairs. These partners must continue holding
hands and cannot let go.
3. The cat can cut through the circle in between pairs, but the
mouse must run around the outside of the circle.
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4.
The objective is for the cat to tag the mouse, but there is a small twist
that balances out the cats ability to cut through the circle. The mouse
can grab any free hand (or arm) of the partners forming the circle.
(The partners will be holding hands or locking arms, but the outside
arm of each person will be free.) If the mouse grabs one of these
outside arms/ hands, the mouse forms a new partner with the person
the mouse has attached to, and the person who was not grabbed now
becomes the new mouse.
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Variations
For Christmas you could have the Grinch chasing the Puppy, or
Herod Chasing Baby Jesus.
For Thanksgiving have the Farmer Chasing the Turkey.
For Easter you could have the Pharisees Chasing the Disciples.
For a lesson on King David, you could have Saul chasing David.
For a lesson on Moses, Have Pharaoh Chasing Moses.
There are a lot of places in the Old Testament where People are
being pursued.
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As you look over the things the Bible says to pursue, youll
see they fall into the same two areas of the great
commandment To love the Lord your God with all your
heart soul mind and strength, and to Love your neighbor as
yourself A right relationship with God and a right
relationship with others.
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Take it Personal
Which of these do people find difficult to pursue?
What stops people from pursuing these things of God?
When you think about your relationship with God faith,
endurance, righteousness, piety and holiness, how do you think
you measure up?
What are you currently pursuing?
How can you direct that pursuit in a way that is honoring to God?
In what areas does your life thoughts, attitudes, actions need
improvement?
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Closing
What is one thing you can pursue this week in your
relationship with God?
What is one thing you can pursue this week in your
relationship with others?
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Scripture References
Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you
may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:1 (NASB)
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They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and
pursue it.
1 Peter 3:11 (NIV)
But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness,
godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:11 (NIV)
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Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love
and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure
heart.
2 Timothy 2:22
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no
one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14 (NASB)
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What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue
righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of
righteousness, have not attained their goal. Why not? Because
they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They
stumbled over the stumbling stone.
Romans 9:30-32 (NIV)
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So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building
up of one another.
Romans 14:19 (NASB)
Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going
forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain,
Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
Hosea 6:3 (NKJV)
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