We watched scenes with Sloth and mainly his interaction with Chunk.
We had volunteers eat Peanut Butter Sandwiches, with each sandwich containing something other than jelly. They ate the bit of sandwich, removed their blindfolds and wrote down what they thought was on the sandwich, and whether or not they liked it. The put their blindfolds on and did it again. The sandwiches consisted of PB and banana, chocolate syrup, bacon, miracle whip, cinnamon applesauce, orange marmalade, and honey. They were to keep quiet during this.
When it was over, we found out who was right on figuring out what was on the sandwich, and who liked, disliked, or were indifferent about what was included with the peanut butter. The opinions varied.
How would you feel if I used this game as a test, accepting people who like sandwiches I like, and rejecting those who don’t?
If I were to have told you ahead of time what was on the sandwiches, would you have tried any of them?
Did other people making comments and noises make a difference in your opinion if you heard them before eating?
How were the sandwiches in this game similar to the standards we use to accept or reject others?
What are some of the standards we use to judge other people?
How have you seen people change themselves to try to be accepted by others?
Do they feel that they just have to, or is it expected by a group that they must change?
How have you seen rejection affect people?
How many of you have ever been rejected because you didn’t ‘fit in’? What were the circumstances?
YOUth Council discussed that this group isn’t overly ‘welcoming’. Do y’all agree? Why or why not? How have we been welcoming? How can we be?
Read Matthew 7:1-5 and John 13:34.
Matthew 7:1-5- 1-5 "Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults— unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It's easy to see a smudge on your neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, 'Let me wash your face for you,' when your own face is distorted by contempt? It's this whole traveling road-show mentality all over again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your part. Wipe that ugly sneer off your own face, and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor.
John 13:34-35 34-35"Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other."
Christ didn’t call us to just love those like us…
Why does God want us to accept people we don’t like?
Think back about some of your friends. Any of them that you look back and realized on your first times around them you had nothing in common, and maybe didn’t care for them?
Or have a friend that you realize others don’t accept? How do you handle that?
What was Chunk’s first reaction to Sloth? How did he get past that?
Did Chunk’s acceptance of Sloth, help for the others to accept Sloth?
Have you ever been in a situation like that, where you or someone else has accepted an ‘outsider’ and other friends then accept them? Ever done that where they don’t? What’s the difference?
Do you have friends that aren’t friends with other friends of yours? Why is that?
What about people on the fringes? If you were to encounter someone like Sloth, how would you honestly react to him and treat him? Why?
How does this apply to you and your life/situations/people you encounter?
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