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This term at Starchasers the theme is “Life to the MAX”, based on John 10v10 where Jesus said that He has come to give us life and life to the full. Sometimes we forget that Jesus promises us “Life to the MAX” so we’re going to be looking at why God’s way is the best way to live.
Our memory verse for the term is:
“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” - John 10v10
Session 2 - 11th May – A design for life (Genesis 1&2, 2 Corinthians 5v5)
Theme – God made us. God made us to have a relationship with him
In this session we looked at why certain objects were made and what they were best at doing.
For example – what was a hammer designed to do and what was a toothbrush designed to do? What happens if you use a toothbrush for DIY and a hammer to brush your teeth? (if you’re not sure of the answer try it for yourself…).
The result was that things work best when they are used for the purpose they were designed for.
We even had a go at making some things ourselves. We made things to fly (paper planes) and things to make noise (shakers and paper snappers). The paper planes were best at flying and the shakers and snappers were best at making noise.
Again, we saw that things work best when they are used for the purpose they were designed for.
And we are no different. The bible tells us that God made and designed us and the reason He made us was to have a relationship with Him. We were designed for life with God.
So one of the reasons why life with God is “Life to the MAX” is that is what we were designed for.
Session 1 - 27th April: Life to the Zero (Luke 5 v11-32, Ecclesiastes 2 v1-11)
Theme: Life without God doesn’t lead to happiness - But God is always there, waiting for us to turn back to Him.
In the first session we looked at choices and how good we are at making them. For example, do we prefer School time or School holidays, Chocolate or Ice Cream & Saturday or Sunday.
But the biggest choice we’re faced with is whether we want to choose life with or without God. And in the first session we looked at what life is like without God, when we go our own way and do our own thing.
To help us with this we looked at a video (see below), based on a story that Jesus told. In the video Tom left his father (J. Mortley) and went and did his own thing. Although he had fun for a while it didn’t last and he didn’t find happiness away from his father. Jesus said we’re like the son, Tom, and God is like the father, J. Mortley. When we do our own thing without God it doesn’t lead to happiness. And as the writer of Ecclesiastes found, just having fun may bring short term pleasure but it doesn’t lead to real, true, permanent happiness. We’re not saying these things are bad but on their own they don’t lead to happiness. Life without God is life to the zero.
But, as the parable of the Prodigal Son reminds us, God is always there, waiting for us to turn back to Him. Jesus used an extreme example in the son (Tom) to show that no matter how low we might feel, or how far away form God we think we are, we can always turn back to God and choose life with Him. And this life with God is new life, life to the full, life to the MAX.
During the rest of the term we’re going to looking at life with God and why it really is Life to the MAX.
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