Study Guide Week 4

Watch the movie Frozen. This movie is rated G for all age levels. You can find it on Disney+ for streaming. Use as many or few of the following questions to guide your discussion with your family and friends.

1. When Anna is hurt at the beginning of the movie, they take her to the Trolls to be healed and the Troll king says “the heart is not so easily changed. The head can be persuaded. “ Which is easier to change- our heart or our minds? 2. Grandpabbie Troll states that “fear will be your enemy.” 3. Elsa has to learn to control her powers. Is self control something you struggle with? 4. Elsa and Anna have to be separated for Anna’s protection. Have you ever had a friend or a family member that you were close to who then became distant from you and you didn’t know why? What can we do when our relationships become strained with those we really care for? 5. When the gates at opened for Coronation Day, there is music and light and dancing and people. Anna sings “For the first time in forever, I won’t be alone.” God created us to be in relationship with each other. Do you ever feel lonely? If so, how can God help with that? 6. Prince Hans and Princess Anna talk about their brothers and sister with sadness but they have found each other. They sing “Love is an open door”. We don’t have to live in the pain of the past. Sometimes our past hurts will affect our current relationships. What can we do to heal from our past? 7. Elsa runs from her troubles when everyone finds out about her powers and the townspeople call Elsa a monster. Sometimes people don’t understand us and mistreat us. Have you ever been misunderstood? 8. When her powers are revealed, Elsa finally can be herself and let it go. She can finally be who she was created to be and she finds a lot of power and freedom in that. She doesn’t have to pretend any longer. Are you who God has created you to be? Or do you hide yourself and pretend to be something you are not? 9. Anna goes to find Elsa with great trouble. She asks Kristoff to take her up the north mountain. They are chased by wolves and lose the sled. Kristoff says “this whole thing has ruined me from ever helping anyone ever again.” Sometimes when we help others, it might cause us some trouble or cost us. Has that ever happened to you? Name a time when helping someone was not very easy. What does Jesus expect us to do? 10. Olaf dreams of summer without any idea that summer would not be good for him. Sometimes we want things but others know it’s not good for us. Is it hard to understand that? Do we have a hard time listening to others? 11. They get to the North Mountain and Kristoff says it is too steep and he only has one rope. Sometimes there are mountains in our lives that are steep and it seems too hard to climb. What do we do when we face the mountain in our lives? 12. Kristoff’s family of trolls are the “love experts” and at first he is a little hesitant to introduce Anna and Olaf to his family who are trolls. His family sings about “people make bad choices if they are mad or scared or stressed but throw a little love their way and you’ll bring out their best.” “Love is a force that is powerful and strange.” Who has helped you be your best? Who can you help be their best? 13. The song “everyone’s a fixer-upper” is very true. God loves us just the way we are but too much to leave us this way. God is always wanting us to grow in God’s love and become more like Jesus so others can see God’s love in us. What are the things in your life that needs “fixing”? 14. Elsa froze the whole city of Arendelle and then made things worse when Hans showed up and she was put in the tower in chains. Elsa didn’t know how to undo the damage. Sometimes we do things that we don’t know how to undo the damage. But God can. God is the great healer. Can you think of a time when you hurt someone and what did you learn from that? 15. Hans didn’t turn out to be who Anna thought he was. She was going to marry him after only knowing him for one day. How do we learn to trust others? Is it easy to trust? What can we do when someone turns out to not be what we thought they were? 16. “Love is putting someone else’s needs before yours.” What’s your definition of love? Anna puts Elsa before herself and is frozen when she sacrifices herself for Elsa when Hans tries to hurt Elsa. Love is what unfreezes the City of Arendelle. Olaf has a lot of wisdom when it comes to love. He says “I’m Olaf and I like warm hugs.” In the scene where Anna sacrifices herself for Elsa, and Anna comes back to life, Olaf says “Only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart.” How do we learn to love? It is easy to love? How do we love people that we don’t like?

Prayer

Dear Loving God, Thank you for loving us. Help us to love others, even those we don’t get along with. Thank you for making me special. Help me to grow and be more like Jesus. You are an amazing God with amazing love and we love you. In Jesus’ name, Amen