Spiritual Transition Game
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One of the most difficult things for people when witnessing is the transition from the natural to the spiritual. This is a game we created to help sharpen those skills. This is a fun game for people with adults or youth groups.
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- We talk to people all the time who say I'm just looking for an opportunity to share the gospel.
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- A lot of times people have a hard time starting conversations and what we've done is come up with a game you can play with your friends to help you do what for some people is really hard and that's transition from the natural to the spiritual.
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- So we call this the spiritual transition game. It's a game we play in with our youth group.
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- Give you a quick for instance of what what it looks like and then we're gonna play. Last night a couple of guys were open -air preaching and they said that there's some people that were decided they'd take these stink bombs and throw it right in front of the open -air preachers and my immediate thought
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- I would if I was up there preaching and someone did that my immediate thought would be and this is exactly what our sin looks like and smells like by God.
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- You become effective at that. You become as good as my first pastor. We had a problem with fruit bats in the church that we rented and a fruit bat in the middle of the sermon started doing circles.
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- What did every single person do? He took the fruit bat and immediately turned it into the illustration that from what he was just speaking on.
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- After the service I had people come up to me say did you release that fruit bat? It was just too coincidental that it just happened at that time.
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- No, he turned it and he gained everyone's attention back that way. So the way we play this is
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- Dave is gonna give me something to do. He's gonna, the way we play it is we usually play in a group and we'll say
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- Andrew and you got a choice of one of two things. He's either gonna tell me I have a spiritual conversation to start or a gospel conversation and then he's gonna give me an object.
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- Now we've done very weird things. His wife has given me things like artichoke hearts. Okay. I've had to do it off of a guy's goatee.
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- Quantum physics. You feel silly doing it when you start but when you start doing it regularly what you end up realizing you can transition any conversation into a spiritual one.
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- Witnessing conversation pizza box. A pizza box in a witnessing conversation.
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- Is there food, is there any pizza in there or is it empty? Yes, someone's carrying it on the boardwalk. I have a thing where, see, my son has food allergies.
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- He cannot eat anything with wheat and we really don't get to eat pizza very often. Actually whenever I take my daughter out it's kind of like our thing because we both like pizza and we can't eat it any other time.
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- And so when I think of like pizza I get that aroma. You ever have that where you just, you know, and if you can't eat pizza regularly you really, you smell it and it's like, oh.
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- And I see you walking with that pizza box it's just giving me that aroma like, oh. But you know there's something that's actually a sweeter aroma than that.
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- A sweet aroma is God says that a sweet aroma is when a believer, a person becomes a believer in Jesus Christ, it becomes a sweet.
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- Do you know what you must do to have that sweet aroma before the angels, before the