Tweeners Sunday School Lessons – Who is the Lamp?

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Coming up with ideas to teach your tweeners Sunday school lessons can be challenging. Try these ideas to teach your 9-11 year olds the Sunday school lesson about how God is our Lamp and helps us light the way for others to follow Him.

Discussion:
Ask the students how we know what choices are the right ones. Ask them if we can show other people which choices are the wise ones.

Bible Story:
Have the students read the following passages:
2 Samuel 22:29
Psalm 119:105
Luke 8:16

Discussion:
Ask the students who and what is the lamp. Ask them why the lamp is important.

Activity:
Take the students into a large room such as the church gym or sanctuary. Give each student a flashlight. Turn the lights off and flip one flashlight on at a time. Talk about how as more flash-lights came on it became easier to see. Explain that this is how it is when we shine the light of God for others around us. As more of us shine our light, the world becomes a brighter place and it is easier to see the right from the wrong.

Extension To Activity:
Play Flashlight Find.
Have one student close his/her eyes and count to 20. While that student is counting have the others hide somewhere in the room with their flashlights turned off. (You will want to turn the lights on while they hide as a safety precaution). Then have the counter use his/her flashlight to find others. As others are found have them turn their flashlight on and help the counter find the rest of the students. You can repeat this activity as many times as time allows.

When you are finished playing explain that this is what it is like in the world. We use our light to find others and help them to learn about God and then shine their lights. Then they use their lights to find others and the others learn about God and use their lights to find and teach others and so on.

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