Autumn Term 08 Hot Potato Session Celebration 1

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Autumn Term 08 Hot Potato Session Celebration
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Discuss
Introducing the Theme
Which of the clips was your favourite
celebration? What would be your individual goal
celebration if you were a star football
player? Why do you think footballers or sports
stars express themselves this way?
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Discuss
Setting the Scene
1. What is happening in this passage?
2. What is being celebrated?
3. How do the people in the passage celebrate?
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Discuss
Setting the Scene
Can you decide from these passages what the Bible
is saying about celebration?
Is it right or wrong to party?
Which of the parties we read about were good
and which were bad?
What exactly made the parties good or bad?
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Discuss
You never know it just might work.
In which of these ways weve written on the
balloons, do you like to celebrate?
What do you celebrate?
Are any of these ways of celebrating more
Christian than others? What does God think of
them?
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The Big Picture
Be born (Gen. 25 v 24) Die (Gen. 25 v 8) Plant
(Gen. 9 v 20) Uproot (Matt. 15 v 13) Heal (Luke
4 v 40) Tear down (Judg. 6 v 25) Build (Gen. 6
v15) Weep (Gen. 29 v 11) Laugh (Gen. 17 v
17) Mourn (Gen. 23 v 2) Dance (1 Sam. 18 v
7) Gather stones (Gen. 31 v 46) Embrace (Songs 2
v 6) Refrain (Dan. 6 v 18) Search (1 Sam. 23 v
14) Give up searching (1 Sam. 27 v 4) Keep
something (Gen. 47 v 24) Throw something away
(Josh. 24 v 23) Tear (2 Sam. 3 v 31) Mend (Neh.
3 v 6) Be silent (Matt. 26 v 63) Speak (Job 7 v
11) Love (Gen. 24 v 67) Hate (Psa. 31 v 6) War
(Num. 31 v 3) Peace (Josh. 9 v 15)