All Age Worship 10 oct 2004 Order of Service
Ewen Intro (PowerPoint)
Robin Songs
• Holy holy holy, Lord God almighty
• Come now is the time to worship
• Lord you have my heart (chorus only)
Prayer
Drama The advert
Ewen Talk 1 – part 1
• I’m special
Talk 1 – part 2 (incl reading Rom 12 reading Paul Tipple)
Robin Songs
• Our God is a great big God
Ewen Talk 2
(incl Rebel drama)
Robin Chocolate bar
Prayer
• We’ve got a lot of hope
• All to Jesus I surrender (1 verse and chorus only)
Ewen Talk 3
Jesus Walks (PowerPoint /Songpro)
Robin Prayer
• I am a new creation
• Beautiful Lord
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Slide 1
Brief intro slide: (Bring up slide as Ewen gets up to speak)
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT (ppt- as Ewen begins to speak)
We want to talk to you, this morning, about:
being different… standing out from the crowd… being special.
Want to talk to you about 3 things
How you are FORMED (PPT)
About the things that will try and ‘stop you being you’ – the things that will try and make you CONFORM (PPT)- “peer pressure”, and the like. (Negative influences)
Positive influences: things and people that will help you TRANSFORM (PPT) into what you want to be… And should be
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Slide 1
TALK 1 PART 1
Just briefly show overview slide as Ewen gets up to speak
Slide 2
MINI-TALK 1
PPT (‘Formed’ comes up)
(PPT) God made you who you are
and that’s very special
even when you were in your mother’s womb (PPT)
God saw you
God knew you
He knows all about the events in your life:
the pains: allowed them
the blessings: sent them
the difficulties: used them
He knows about all your thoughts… deeds
good and bad!
AND/BUT
He loves YOU (PPT- surprised face)
loves you as YOU (not someone else!) (PPT- heart comes in)
loves you as the only one! (would have died for you if only one)
Slide 3
whatever shape, size, colour you are (PPT)
God loves you
He knows the hairs on your head… and knows you uniquely (PPT baby)
God made you unique- and good (PPT finger print and ‘it was good’)
Slide 4
PPT brings you to blank screen
trouble is- we don’t often want to be different… unique… ourselves
want to be someone else
or: want to be like everyone else
feel ‘I’m too fat, skinny, intelligent’ or whatever (PPT- bottom!)
But- God loves you- so love yourself! (PPT)
SING: I’m special (and then followed by short ppt to close mini-talk 1)
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Slide 1
Having sung: I’m special
God has made you just as you are: and He couldn’t love you more (even if you were perfect)
but His work hasn’t finished:
He is making you who He wants you to be (PPT)
READ: Roms 12:1-2 (PPT as reader opens Bible)
God loves you as you are but loves you too much to leave you as you are
I’m not talking about physically (unless you really don’t eat healthily and never do any exercise- because our bodies ARE described as the temple of the HS)
= mentally, attitudes, the things that influence us, ‘who pulls our strings’, who we follow, anger, selfishness etc
He loves YOU… US –but doesn’t like some of these things
and so He is working to change us (PPT sad smiley-> happy smiley)
to ‘transform’ us
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Slide 1
Just briefly show overview slide
Slide 2
MINI-TALK 2
PPT (‘CONFORM’ comes up)
God made us who we are and is making us what He wants us to be
Only trouble is (PPT ‘the trouble with us)
we sometimes don’t like who we are
not happy with being ‘unique’
feel we ‘stand out’
want to ‘blend in’
(whatever our age)
don’t want to be the ‘odd one out’ (PPT- odd penguin)
This actually applies to us all! Adults just hide it better
as teenagers say we want to be a rebel.. different
but CONFORM
= just the same as all our other friends
(perhaps, really, we just want to be different from our parents- and that’s okay
DRAMA: Rebel?!
Slide 3
The trouble with THEM (PPT) -all them out there- is
THEY want us to be just like them
our friends (so they don’t feel left out… because they feel insecure) (PPT, piggies)
so it MATTERS if you have different shoes- even if yours are better or were considered trendy by previous teenagers (PPT- shoes)
(don’t worry- it’s no big deal!)
and they may want you to smoke… even try drugs along with them
so they won’t be alone in their ‘brain dead world’ (PPT-drugs)
If anyone ever offers you these kind of things- you must realise, they don’t care about YOU, they just want you to be LIKE them so they aren’t the odd one out
JUST SAY NO (PPT)
companies
there’s nothing wrong with trendy clothes etc (all that stuff is fun! was even considered trendy, myself, once!)
just be aware that all the advertising etc on TV is to get you to spend your (or parents) money on stuff YOU don’t need
they want you to CONFORM to what they want
The whole world around us is trying to ‘force us into it’s mould…shape’ (PPT)
(one translation of Roms 12 puts it like that)
and beware- because behind SOME of it is someone (PPT devil) who makes us want to follow IT… the world… rather than God, Jesus. Worship created things rather than the creator
Slide 4
SO, listen:
be yourself! (PPT)
you want to be radical and stand out? Follow Jesus! (PPT)
let Him help you with your image!
and with regards to the pressure to
have a smoke
have sex outside marriage
try drugs
> Do not conform! (PPT)
> Do not follow their ways- or you will be trapped by them (PPT)
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Slide 1
Just briefly show overview slide
Slide 2
MINI-TALK 3
PPT (‘TRANSFORM’ comes up)
So- we’re not supposed to be like a chameleon that always changes and fits in.. conforms… with its environment
but rather like a butterfly that is transformed to be beautiful and fly (PPT)
And at work, or at school, or at home
not follow the crowd (when they do wrong)
but follow Jesus (that’s what disciple means). Follow His words and His example
And there IS a kind of ‘peer pressure’ that’s good
but ‘pressure’ isn’t the right kind of word for it
= peer ‘influence’
= encouragement.
= the encouragement of your Christian mates and friends
encouragement to do what’s right
to follow Jesus
helping each other (like you do in COGS, and Fresh and when you meet with your friends, make each other strong and pray for each other… and in HGs)
Listen to a couple of bits from the Bible:
Heb 3:12 (PPT)
Heb 10:23
And remember- each day: Jesus walks beside you, to watch you, and help you: so you can transform, not conform
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The Rebel
2 Rebels, loud, pointing to individuals, and finally to themselves:
“Do you wanna be a rebel, do you wanna be a rebel? Sex and drugs and rock and roll! Do you wanna be a rebel, do you wanna be a rebel? WE are rebels!”
Enter Rebel 3
2 Rebels: “Do you wanna be a rebel?!”
Rebel 3: “Yeah, I wanna be a rebel!”
2 rebels: “How ya gonna be a rebel?!”
Rebel 3: “Sex and drugs and MOTORBIKES!” (makes ‘biking’ motion)
2 Rebels: “HOW ya gonna be a rebel?!”
Rebel 3 (helped by 2 rebels): “Sex and drugs and ROCK AND ROLL”
Rebel 3 joins the 2 rebels and they start again in unison:
“Do you wanna be a rebel, do you wanna be a rebel? Sex and drugs and rock and roll! Do you wanna be a rebel, do you wanna be a rebel? WE are rebels!
AND SO ON….
Rebel 4: VIOLENCE (shaking fist)
Rebel 5: GRAFITI (spraying motion)
Christian rebel : “I WANT TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST”
The gang beat ‘Christian rebel’ up, shouting “Rebel, rebel, rebel!” (in unison)… and beat them into the shape of the cross and leave them hanging there as they storm off
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