If You’ve Got God . . . You’ve Got Love
Posted by: Buffalo Dream Center
Topic: Got God
Verse: Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:8
Props:
hula-hoop
small stick
large piece of wood that will not break
“you” on poster board
“God” on adhesive paper
2 plants
1 pair of scissors
watering can
picture of the sun
Instructions:
Discussion:
Introduction:
a. Last week we talk about having Jesus in you life.
b. If Jesus is in your life, your life has a purpose, is strong, and is full on meaning.
c. Without Jesus in your life, your life is weak, meaningless and headed for destruction.
d. Today we are going to talk about God’s Love.
e. If you’ve got God in your life, then you have His love in your life.
f. God loves you and you must show God’s love to others.
1. God’s love is never-ending.
a. Hold your arm up into the sky.
b. Now point to the end of your arm.
c. Now here I have a Hula Hoop. Can I have a volunteer come up?
d. Can you point to the end of this Hula Hoop? No
e. There in no end to the Hula Hoop.
f. It is the same with God’s love.
g. God’s love for you has no end. He never stops loving you.
2.God’s love never breaks.
a. Choose a volunteer to come up.
b. Our love is like this stick. Let your volunteer break it.
c. When someone does something to make us mad, we might feel like we stopped loving him or her. (For example your friend tells a secret on you, your sister lies about you to her friends)
d. God’s love is like this pole, it will never break. It doesn’t matter what you have said or done God still loves you and he will never stop.
e. God’s love will never break.
3. Jesus set the example of love –never breaking or never ending.
a. Judas was one of Jesus disciples.
b. Jesus loved all his disciples very much they were his special friends.
c. For three years Jesus spent almost everyday with them teaching them.
d. Judas, one of the disciples, turned Jesus over to the Roman soldiers so they could arrest him. This lead to Jesus’ death.
e. Some people wondered how Jesus could be Judas’ friend when He knew what Judas would do.
f. Even though Jesus knew Judas would do something very wrong, Jesus still loved Judas very much.
4. Nothing Can separate us from Jesus love
a. Hold up poster board that says “you”.
b. Hold up adhesive paper that says “God”.
c. The Bible says that nothing can separate us from God’s love. (Stick the “God” to the “you”-have a volunteer try to come and peel them apart-while they are you keep talking)
d. You may think: “God has abandon me”, “I have sinned to much”, “ and God doesn’t care”.
e. Nothing in the world can separate you from God’s love. (Ask the volunteer how he or she is doing-Have them give up and sit down.)
5. If you’ve got God’s love then you’ve got to show God’s love.
a. I have 2 plants here. They are going to represent how I treat someone else.
b. The first plant I am going to treat badly. (Cut off the flowers, cut it up).
c. How do we treat someone bad? (Ask the kids)
i. Liking someone because of their toys
ii. Telling lies about someone
iii. Fighting with someone
iv. Calling someone names
d. The second plant I am going to treat with love. What am I going to do?
i. Water it
ii. Put it in the sun
iii. Give it plant food
iv. Trim off the dead flowers
e. How can we treat others with God’s love?
i. Be kind to others
ii. Share our toys
iii. If someone calls us a name-don’t fight back
iv. Encourage a friend who is sad
v. Be friendly to someone who is always treated badly.
Conclusion:
1.Remember God’s love for us never fails, never breaks, and we are never separated from it.
2. Think of someone you can show God’s love to today. Just like Jesus showed Judas love, even though Judas did something bad to Jesus.
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