I will support you with my right hand that saves you.” I will make you strong and will help you I have chosen you and have not turned against you.ġ0 So don’t worry, because I am with you. “I took you from places far away on the earth It is no surprise, then, that the Bible talks a lot about fear and being afraid. Others run.Īnd some of us fight, but regardless, we all know what it is like to be afraid.įear can truly be paralyzing and it can be very difficult to think clearly when you are truly afraid. And each of us responds to fear in different ways. Every single inch of your body is on alert. Just think about how your body feels when you are really afraid. They worry that war will break out or that their lives are in danger.įor them, fear is real and it is life or death.Ĭan you imagine living every day with that level of fear? There are some places in the world today where people worry about violence or what they will eat. Now this list of what we fear would also change depending on where we are in life or what type of community we live in. (Some to add might be: being alone, what others think of you, not having enough food.) Give students a few minutes to share more fears. Were there any fears that we should add to this stack? How did it make you feel to know that you are not the only one who gets afraid or fears certain things? How many of you were surprised to hear that others have the same fear as you do? Read the fears on the cards to the group. Give students a few minutes to write down their fears and pass them in. I want you to write down what your greatest fear is on that card and pass it to me.ĭo not write your name on the card because I will be reading these out loud. Maybe you are afraid of love or disappointing someone. Maybe it is that someone will find out something that you are ashamed of. Maybe it is what others think about you. Many people fear death or someone you love dying. So let me ask you: What are you afraid of today? And it can cause us to do some pretty crazy things, too. How many times have you been afraid of something only to find that it really wasn’t that bad?īut no amount of telling yourself that it was ‘ok’ before that point seemed to help, did it?įear is a very real and powerful emotion. Leader, share a story of a time that you were very afraid. Maybe you can remember lying in bed as a small child and being so afraid that the shadows on the walls were monsters, or being afraid of the dark. People even pay money to go to movies and haunted houses that are full of fear.) (If you’re doing this lesson around Halloween time, then talk about how fear is front and center. Get responses from students on what would they fear and why.įear is something that all of us struggle with at some point. What would be in this bag if I were to be holding something that you would truly be afraid of? What helped you to not be afraid as a little child? What was something that you were really afraid of as a small child? Remind the youth that they have to hold onto the object and they can only get rid of it if they scare another youth and make them jump. Play music (the scarier the better) and start passing the Box of Fear. You will have to hold onto that item for the rest of the night unless you are able to scare someone and make them jump…then they have to keep the item. Inside of this box, I have items which should strike terror in your heart.Įveryone will sit in a large circle and when the music stops, if you are holding the box, you have to reach in and grab an item. Provide ‘spit cups’ for contestants to spit out the ‘bad beans’. Spin the wheel provided in the game to choose the color of jelly bean to be tasted, hand the youth the beans, and on the count of 3, they eat the bean. Take pictures of the youths’ faces as they eat the beans to have a hilarious photo collage.Īsk for the next 2 volunteers and continue until all of the beans have been tasted. The trick with this game is that a ‘good tasting’ bean and a bad tasting bean look the same and you can only tell the difference once you bite into the bean. Spin the wheel to choose the type of jelly bean and then they eat the bean at the same time. Box filled with ‘scary/gross’ items such as sardines, crickets, play spiders or bugs, rubber snake, a baby doll (which to some is very scary!), clown toy, villain figure, etc.Īsk for 2 volunteers to ‘face off’ to the Bean Boozled Challenge.Youth Group Lesson on Fear DOWNLOAD THE PDF OF THIS LESSONīottom Line: When you experience fear, know that God is by your side! Looking for an entire youth ministry series on Fear? Check out…įEAR – This 4-week teaching series helps students overcome their fears. Use this free youth group lesson to teach students that when they experience fear, God is on their side.
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