Relational: Describe Something Great

(5-8 minutes, easy set-up)
Learners will describe the experience of something great and analyze their response to it.

(5–8 minutes, easy setup)
Provide a dry erase board and a marker.

Divide learners into groups of three. Write the following prompts on the board:

Describe a time when you experienced something great, beautiful, wonderful, or amazing.
Describe your response.
Recall whether your response was spontaneous or premeditated.

Encourage groups to use the prompts to guide their discussion of “something great.” After three or four minutes, call time and encourage two or three learners to briefly share their experiences with the entire class. Then, share that the greatest, most beautiful, wonderful and amazing person we can experience is God and that, in today’s lesson, learners will explore ways to experience and know him and the appropriate response to him.