Lesson 4 -The Fruits in Your Life

Icebreaker: We passed out index cards to the kids and asked them to write down a fact or incident in their lives that they were willing to share. We read the cards and the group had to guess who the items was about. We had a good time getting to know each other a bit more and some of the things revealed were a bit funny.

The meat of the lesson was around how the kids can be influencers in their various walks to others about the love of Christ. We talked for a few minutes to see who could recall the fruits of the spirit and then focussed on the kids lives in three areas; Family, School and Friends.

I asked the kids to list how they could illustrate Christ' love in each of these settings. We broke in to the three groups and each group developed a list that we read out to the whole group. I must say i'm proud of the group for the ideas they come up with. Here are the lists;

School

Pray at lunch (amen!)
Be a good influence
Don't cuss
resist peer pressure
don't be a trouble maker
don't mess with norma (?)
don't drink

Family

Be nice to your brothers and sisters
Don't Fight
encourage them to go to church
pray with your family
don't show your brothers and sisters bad stuff on the internet

Friends

Be nice to them
invite them to church
Tell them about Jesus
Share with them

The second part of the exercise was asking them to connect the fruits of the spirit with the actions they had suggested thereby showing them they can live the fruits in their lives. We gave the kids index cards with the fruits listed and they attached them to the charts they made on family, friends, and school where they applied.

This is how they came out in [parenthesis]

School
Pray at lunch (amen!) [faith]
Be a good influence
Don't cuss
resist peer pressure [goodness]
don't be a trouble maker
don't mess with norma (?)
don't drink
Family
Be nice to your brothers and sisters [love]
Don't Fight
encourage them to go to church
pray with your family [peace]
don't show your brothers and sisters bad stuff on the internet [gentleness]
Friends
Be nice to them [meakness]
invite them to church
Tell them about Jesus
Share with them [Joy]