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Youth Icebreakers - Christ Calls Us Friends

Summer is a time of friendships. The time away from school is a welcome break and provides the freedom to spend time with friends doing the things you enjoy. Friends will come and go but all will teach you something about who you are and who you want to be. But Jesus also calls us friends. So what does that teach us?

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Youth Icebreakers - Christ Calls Us Friends

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  1. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Youth Icebreakers - Christ Calls Us Friends www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  2. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Summer is a time of friendships. The time away from school is a welcome break and provides the freedom to spend time with friends doing the things you enjoy. Friends will come and go but all will teach you something about who you are and who you want to be. But Jesus also calls us friends. So what does that teach us? www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  3. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com What to doPlace a tag/ sticker with each name on the back of people as they enter the meeting. Do not tell them that these are pairs of friends. Their task is to mingle around asking “yes” or “no” questions to discover the character on the tag. After a brief time of mingling have each person find his or her “friend” and share a quality they look for in a friend! www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  4. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com (The three stooges are included in case you have an odd number of people.) If the group is small you might give out only one of each pair and then once everyone has discovered his/her identity have them name the friend associated with the person on the tag they have been given. www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  5. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Take It to the Next Level Put the following questions up on posters around the room – taped to the walls or to the floor. Have youth wander around the room and to add their thoughts and answers for each question. Then discuss them as a group! www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  6. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com • A friend is…? • Real Friends always…? • Real Friends never…? • One of my friends is ________ because…? • What do you do to be a friend and to have friends? • What is one of the qualities you look for in a friend? • What is one of your best qualities as a friend? • What is one of the qualities you look for in a friend? www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  7. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Take It Spiritual John 15:13 calls us to look to the interests of others for the sake of the common good. Jesus’ whole life is an incarnation of the ideal of friendship. What Jesus teaches he is already living. Jesus gave everything to his friends—his knowledge of God and his own life. Jesus is our model for friendship—because he loved without limits—and he makes it possible for us to live a life of friendship—because we have been transformed by everything he shared with us. Through friendship we come to know God and through friendship we express the love of God. We can risk being friends because Jesus has been a friend to us. www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  8. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com • Make it Practical • How can we be better friends to those around us? • How can we express the love of God in our friendships? • Make it Personal • What is something you will do this week to be more Christlike in your friendships? www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  9. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Scripture “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.” – John 15:12-15 www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  10. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com This idea is adapted from a similar idea in our eBook “Icebreakers Ahead: Take it to the Next Level” www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

  11. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Icebreakers Ahead: Take it to the next Level This EBook not only provides 52 of the world’s most popular group icebreaker activities, but also includes lesson ideas and questions to smoothly transition into discussions about issues common to most groups.Click here to find out more! www.CreativeIcebreakers.com

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