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An Edge Night on Peace and Self-Control INCREDIBLE HULK AN EDGE NIGHT ON PEACE AND SELF-CONTROL SCRIPTURE KEY WORDS MEDIA Matthew 5:9 Peace SUGGESTIONS Matthew 21:12-17 Self-Control • YouTube: “Hulk – ‘I’m Philemon 1:3 Always Angry’ 1080p” by Hebrews 12:14 SUPPLIES NEEDED 5teveHxCGaming • 15-30 various sized • EDge Video: "Word Fight" CCC carDboard boxes (EDge Video Support 19) 736 • Red and black paint 2633 • Two sets of Hulk Smash Fists • Six (+) green balloons YOUCAT 300 395 396 EDGE NIGHT GOAL Night enDs in a time of prayer for an increase in the The goal of the EDge Night is to Draw upon the fun fruits of self-control anD peace. superhero example of the IncreDible Hulk to help the youth learn more about the Gifts of the Holy Spirit ENVIRONMENT of peace anD self-control, two fruits of Holy Spirit. Decorate the main meeting space with the colors black and green. Get black and green balloons, OUTLINE crepe paper, streamers, etc. Purchase or print of EDGE NIGHT AT A GLANCE The EDge Night begins with some fun Hulk themeD diferent pictures of the Hulk and the Hulk smash games. The Proclaim uses the Hulk as the example fst. At the front of the room put up large signs of what happens when you have no self-control anD with the words peace and self-control written the lack of peace there is when you cannot control on them. For more ideas on decorations go to your emotions. The teaching encourages the youth Pinterest and search “Hulk BirthDay Parties.” to practice their self-control anD proper use of their emotions anD Desires. The youth will have a chance to Discuss the teaching anD act out skits about the INCREDIBLE HULK right anD wrong way to react to situations. The EDge 38 EDGE SEMESTER PLANNING GUIDE CORE TEAM FORMATION • Do you feel at peace in your relationships? Are Self-control is the ability to rightly direct and control there over-dramatic friends you need to step away our emotions and desires. Peace will naturally follow from? when we live lives of self-control and in accord with justice and charity. It is important to remember that • What can you do in your daily life to practice self- emotions are not a bad thing, but how we direct control? and act upon those emotions can be good or bad. Self-control is central to the Christian life as it is an TO THE PARENTS act of self-mastery and the more we can master This week at Edge we discussed self-control and our emotions and desires, the more we will also be peace, two fruits of the Holy Spirit. We used the able to overcome our temptations to sin. In living a example of the Hulk to demonstrate what it looks life where we can control how we act, we will have like to have no self-control and how that leads to a greater peace within us and in the relationships in life with no peace. Your son and daughter learned our lives. The more self-control is fostered in our the importance of learning to control his or her communities, the greater peace we will have in emotions before acting and discussed diferent our world. Jesus calls all of us to be peacemakers ways that he or she can practice self-control in daily (Matthew 5:9), but in order to have a greater impact life. Here are some questions to ask your son our as peacemakers we must frst make peace within daughter this week: ourselves. Since self-control and peace are fruits of the Holy Spirit they will naturally fow from our lives • What does it mean to have self-control? the more and more we invite the Holy Spirit into our lives and follow His promptings. Use the following • How do we fnd peace in our daily lives? questions for discussion or personal refection: • What are some things you can do to control your • How often do you let your emotions alone direct emotions and desires before you act upon them? your actions? What has the result of this been? • Do you feel at peace in your life? What do you think the root cause of this is? To make the boxes look like a wall, paint them before the Edge Night. To do this paint one side of the box GATHER that will be facing out red. Once that is dry use black paint and paint squares on the red to look like bricks. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION If you do not have the time to paint the boxes you (5 min) can simply leave them the way that they are. Gather in all the youth, introduce any youth who To play this game set up two brick walls at the front are there for the frst time, and recognize any of the room by stacking the cardboard boxes. birthdays. Give a brief introduction to the night Then call up two volunteers to “Hulk Smash” the and begin in prayer. wall. Assign each youth their own wall and have OUTLINE the rest of the youth participate by cheering the HULK SMASH loudest for who they think will smash down the (10 min) wall the fastest. Give each youth a pair of the Hulk Smash Fists (these are boxing gloves that Supplies: look like Hulk hands – they can be purchased at • 15-30 various sized cardboard boxes most toy stores, or you can simply use boxing • Red and black paint gloves). Time the youth to see who can smash the • Two sets of Hulk Smash Fists wall the fastest; the wall will be ofcially smashed down when no two cardboard boxes are touching INCREDIBLE HULK EDGE SEMESTER PLANNING GUIDE 39 each other. Play this with as many diferent youth volunteers as time allows. BREAK HULK BALLOON POP (10 min) SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION (15 min) Supplies: Break the youth into small groups, begin in prayer, • Six (+) balloons and use the following questions for discussion: • Hulk Smash Fists • What do we learn from the Hulk about anger? Clean up the cardboard boxes and keep out the Hulk Smash Fists. For this game bring up six • Are emotions bad? What are we supposed to do balloons. Again call up two volunteers to the front with them? to compete. Give each youth a set of Hulk Smash Fists and three balloons. The point of this game is • How are self-control and peace related? to pop the balloons while wearing the Hulk Smash Fists. The participants can only use their hands • What is your perfect idea of peace? Do you think (the gloves) to pop the balloons. They cannot step that is attainable? on them or use any other body part to try to pop them. The frst youth to pop all three balloons • Why do you think Jesus wants us all to be wins. Continue to play this with new volunteers peacemakers? for as long as time allows. • If you fnd yourself being overcome with Since this is another up front game, make sure emotions what is one thing you can do before to have lots of crowd involvement. For example, you act so that you act rightly? have all the youth jump up and down and cheer for the one they think will win. Throughout the competition continue to rally the crowd for the TAKING IT DEEPER: SMALL GROUP participants. ADAPTATIONS FOR 8TH GRADE For the 8th grade youth looking to go deeper, use the following questions for discussion: PROCLAIM • Do you think that you have self-control? • How does self-control help us to overcome “INCREDIBLE HULK” TEACHING temptations? (10 min) • Why is it important to be able not always to act This teaching can be found on pages 42 to 43. upon our emotions? Here are the main points from the teaching: • Have you ever seen negative consequences of • The Hulk shows us the negative results of not acting quickly upon emotions? having self-control and letting anger take over. OUTLINE • Do you have peace in your life? • When we have self-control, we can react properly and respond to our emotions and • What robs you of your peace? desires, which will lead to peace. • What can you do to increase peace in your life? • We can use every situation in our lives as an Do you have certain friends who you need to opportunity for prayer and practicing self- walk away from? control. INCREDIBLE HULK 40 EDGE SEMESTER PLANNING GUIDE • Why is it so important to have self-control? What can you do in intense situations to practice self- control? SEND REACTION CLOSING PRAYER (10 min) (15 min) Gather the youth into the large group and close Keep the youth in small groups and have them with a prayer for an increase in self-control and use the following scenarios to act out skits. peace. The following are suggestions for prayer. Instruct them to make two one minute skits – the frst one should be a comical skit of what they O Lord Jesus Christ, Who said to Your Apostles: "Peace should not do and the second one should be a I leave with you, My peace I give to you," regard not skit of how they would practice self- control and my sins but the faith of Your Church, and will to give do the right thing. For example, if the scenario her peace and unity according to Your Will: Who live was that someone at school walks past you in the and reign, God, world without end.
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