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1) Swimming With Sharks- video (2:59)
Two guys, stranded on a deserted island, debate whether to wait or take matters into their own hands. Is it really such a bad idea to “take the plunge?” Click here to use this humorous video illustration to teach the importance of waiting for sex until marriage.
2) Want the Cookie?
Tell the students the first one to raise their hand and answer a Bible question can have a cookie. Make the question super easy to make sure they get it right. Cheer for the winner! Now tell the winner there’s one catch. The cookie must pass through everyone’s hands once before they can have it. Explain when the cookie is passed to them they can do anything they want to it but break it or wet it. They can lick it, put it on their shoe, under their arm etc. When it finally gets to the person who won it, they will probably pass for good reasons. Talk about God’s design for sex as everyone enjoys an untouched cookie designed just for them.
3) Sex and the Brain – video (4:59)
This is a great little video that talks clearly and boldly about how the sex affects your brain chemistry. Preview before you show it to your students to make sure it’s appropriate, but we think this is a great video to use in a frank discussion about sex.
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1) One Night Stand- video (1:52)
In this parody of a scary movie, one couple is haunted by an unknown horror. No matter where they run or what they do, the consequences of their actions stalk them. Click here to use this clever video illustration when teaching purity in relationships.
2) Pornography and Physical Relationships- video (3:19)
Click here. In this candid story, Clint shares about how his addiction to pornography badly affected his dating relationships so much that he did everything except for sexual intercourse. In the relationship he’s in now, he’s held accountable by his pastor.
3) Banana Surgery
Things when taken apart (relationships, reputations, etc.) aren’t as easily put back together as it may seem. Have a team peel and cut up a banana into equal parts. (Don’t tell them what comes next until they’re done.) Then tell them they must put the banana back together using pins, needles, tape, or whatever. The team with the best-reconstructed banana wins.
4) Swimming With Sharks video (2:59)
A funny video that uses the analogy of swimming with sharks to talk about the dangers of sex outside of marriage. There’s not a lot of serious content here but it could be a lighthearted way to start the conversation.
5) One Night Stand – video (1:53)
A spoof on a horror movie promo that shows the danger of sex outside of marriage. There’s not a lot of serious content here but it could be a lighthearted way to start the conversation.
6) Pornography and Physcal Relationships – video (3:20)
In this candid story, Clint shares about how his addiction to pornography badly affected his dating relationships so much that he did everything except for sexual intercourse. In the relationship he’s in now, he’s held accountable by his pastor.
7) Vigilant – video (14:21)
A hilarious short film on bad habits and addictions (like pornography) using sweet juicy Twinkies as a metaphor.
8) Bible Reading Plan – OVERCOMING PORN (5 days)
From our friends at the resolution movement. comes this great 5-day Bible reading plan that you can do with your students. This one is on overcoming porn. Use it to help your students learn how to find the answers to their problems in the word of God.
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1) Sex to Heal Pain- video (3:02)
In this candid real-life story, David shares about giving into having sex within the first week of a dating relationship only to find later on that his girlfriend was cheating on him. He shares about the ongoing struggle of having sex with other girls to heal his pain but how one day God changed everything. Click here to use this clip to teach on the topic of purity, sex, and dating relationships.
2) Invention Convention (God uses the junk in our lives.)
God wants to make something beautiful of the brokenness in our lives as we submit to his design. It may look a little funny, but it’s worth something to Him and He can still use you! All you need is a bunch of junk! Get a special trash bag and label “For Game”. Have your staff and parents collect a bunch of their old junk (empty cans, broken toys, boxes, empty toilet paper tubes, etc. Divide into teams. Give each a little bit of trash and one roll of duct tape and some markers. They have five minutes to create the weirdest, funniest, artistic sculpture out of the junk. The winning team gets a prize.
3) Human Knots
Get your group in a tight circle and tell them to grab the hand of two different people NOT standing next to them (each person will be holding the hands of two different people- the circle will look like a tangled mess). They must not let go of either of these peoples’ hands. Now the task is simple… just untangle without letting go. It’s possible but very difficult. Drives home the point that we need God’s redemption and healing to untangle from the connections of sexual sin with others.
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1) Meercat Nature Video
This video about a meercat bitten by cobra provides good parallels on healing, relationships, overcoming. You’ll need to make the connections for your students though, as they may not be obvious.
– Ken Mentz
2) Choose Life
Milk Chocolate and Bitter Chocolate. Tell the students you have chocolate for them today, but they have to choose which kind they want. In the first bag, you get 1 piece. But, in this second bag you get 2 pieces, but at a cost. After everyone has chosen, Ask: How do you feel about your choice? What other choices have you ever made that were a disappointment to you? Give everyone a square of sweet chocolate. Say: Let me tell you about a very important choice we all have to make. (Read aloud Deuteronomy 30:19 and/or John 10:10.) How can people choose the life Jesus promises?
3) Sex to Heal Pain – video (3:02)
The true life story about a guy named David who tried to drown his pain with sex before he realized Jesus had something better for him.
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