Boot Camp: Week 2

Choose Life

This resource provides you with a lesson plan, a drama script, songs, activities to teach this lesson effectively, with opportunities for the children to be active in the learning process. You will be provided with lesson plans and extra materials for either a "stand alone teaching experience" or if you are teaching this as part of a whole module. Choose the resources that best suit your situation.

Aim: To teach the children that to be in “God’s Gang” is the way to choose Life.

Bible Text: Luke 22

Background Notes: It is very sad to see Judas’ fate in the days of Jesus arrest, but it is important to remember that he always had a choice. It is so important that while this is happening another disciple, Peter, is ... Show More It is very sad to see Judas’ fate in the days of Jesus arrest, but it is important to remember that he always had a choice. It is so important that while this is happening another disciple, Peter, is going through a similar situation and chooses forgiveness and life rather than death. There are many theories as to why Judas betrayed Jesus. We have no motives in the scriptures, but we are told of how Judas handled it. It is important to teach the children that we will always make mistakes, get things wrong, even do something deliberately for the wrong motive, but we always have a choice of how we deal with it. John 12 brings out the point that just before he hands Jesus over, Judas wasn’t happy with Mary and the way she wasted the perfume. It seems that Judas was finding it hard to deal with Jesus’ choices and decisions. It is also noted that he was stealing the money, so Judas was already struggling with which gang he was to be a part of. Choosing to be in God’s gang will sometimes mean there are things we don’t understand. Even in that state, we need to choose to follow, to learn from our mistakes and move on. Peter did this, Judas didn’t. Peter Chose life.

You Will Need: TEACHING TIME: Leader to do the Chant with the Kids each week - Dressed in Army Gear, Prizes for Memory Work, 20 cards with numbers and words on each side, Wall / whiteboard - Somewhere to have lines for the memory words stuck up - where the cards can be stuck in the right place when children choose the right place, A bomb on a table, Time ticking down/ Instructions/ sound of a bomb going off – for the Drama.
FOR BOOT CAMP: Padlock and Keys / Prince Charles Ears / U-turn sign / Heart and Cross /Cage, Marked out area / letters of the memory verse