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ACTIVITY | Crown the Cringe
Welcome to our new series, Royals.
Over the next few weeks, we're going to be talking a lot about royalty, so let's start by crowning two royals of our own — the Kings or Queens of Cringe.
INSTRUCTIONS: Buy or DIY two crowns.
Split everyone into pairs or choose a few pairs to play in front of the group.
Give students a moment to come up with the cheesiest joke they can — like a great dad joke.
Have each team (or a player from each team) perform their joke and let the audience choose the winner.
Play just one round or play a few, but crown your winning pair with the Cringe Crowns.
QUESTION | Have you ever done something cringeworthy?
Be honest — have you ever felt like the king or queen of cringe?
Not necessarily because of your joke-telling abilities, but maybe because of an unfortunate hair cut, embarrassing moment, or weird fashion choice?
INSTRUCTIONS: Give a few students a chance to share a cringeworthy moment.
Then share one of your own.
If we're honest, we all know what it's like to . .
Do something really cringeworthy.
Want to crawl into a hole and hide forever.
Desperately wish we had a "rewind" button.
VIDEO | "Nobody's Perfect" by Hannah Montana
Do you know what else is cringeworthy?
Some of the things that used to be cool . . .
like Hannah Montana.
INSTRUCTIONS: Play a short clip from the "Nobody's Perfect" music video (0:00-0:33).
You might recognize Hannah Montana — she's, of course, being played by a young Miley Cyrus, who became a huge celebrity as a result of this role.
But after the show ended, so did Miley's G-rated kid-friendly career.
Instead, she went on to create a more controversial image for herself that a lot of people found pretty cringeworthy.
Whether you've cringed at yourself because of something small (like an awkward moment) or something big (like a really bad decision), Hannah Montana was right about one thing: "Everybody makes mistakes.
Everybody has those days."
*Title Slide*
POLL | When's the last time you cringed at yourself?
When we do something really cringeworthy, we might think things like . . .
"Everyone's laughing at me."
"No one's going to forget this."
"I'm never going to live this down."
Or maybe even, "My life is ruined."
INSTRUCTIONS: Ask students to raise their hands when the answer applies.
Has this ever happened to you? Has it happened to you recently?
Was it this year?
This month?
This week?
Today?
I don't know the stories behind your raised hands.
You might be thinking about a weird outfit you wore that everyone laughed at . . .
or you might be thinking about something more serious.
Like a damaged relationship.
Or that photo you passed around.
Or that person's trust you broke.
Or that thing you said.
What do we do when we've done something worse than cringeworthy?
How can we recover from something that feels unrecoverable?
That's a good question.
And it's what we're going to talk about today.
SO WHAT?
Why does it matter to God and to us?
OBJECT LESSON | The Crown
You and I aren't the only ones who've made mistakes or done things we regret.
It's something we all have in common, no matter how nice, cool, talented, famous, rich, or powerful we are.
We've all done things we regret:
The people you look up to.
Influencers.
Politicians.
Celebrities.
Pastors.
Your friends and family.
Even royalty.
INSTRUCTIONS: Before you begin your series, collect three different crowns — a different crown for Weeks 1-3, plus a crown of thorns for Week 4. Place each of the crowns on decorative pillows.
Then place each one on a table or four pedestals.
But leave the crowns covered by boxes or sheets until you're ready to reveal them.
This week, reveal the first crown.
Pick it up whenever you talk about royalty or King David.
There are a lot of reasons you might be given a crown.
When you eat at Burger King.
When you're a Disney princess for Halloween.
When you're named homecoming king or queen.
When you're an actual king or queen.
In that last scenario (and only that scenario), the crown you're given symbolizes power, authority, and dignity.
It means your whole nation has trusted you to lead well!
But crowns don't instantly make crown-wearers people who are always worth following.
Leaders of all kinds make decisions, but they don't always do it well.
If you need proof, you could see what's trending on social media today, study politics or history, or take a look at some of the stories in the Bible.
(It's not just a book of inspirational quotes.
It's full of politics and history too.)
For the next few weeks, we're going to meet a few kings mentioned in the Bible to see what we can learn from their examples — both good and bad.
SCRIPTURE | II Samuel 11:1-27
Around 3,000 years ago, there was a small nation called Israel.
But Israel wasn't like other nations.
While everyone else was ruled by a human ruler, Israel wasn't.
Israel didn't have a human ruler because Israel was led by God.
First, God led the Israelites by speaking through people like Moses, Aaron, Caleb, and Joshua.
Then, God appointed judges to take charge, like Deborah, Gideon, Samson, Eli, and Samuel.
God gave Israel tons of leaders over the centuries, but the Israelites were never satisfied.
No matter who God was speaking through, they always seemed to have trouble trusting and following God's leadership.
Eventually, the Israelites decided they knew better than God did, so they demanded a king.
They wanted a human leader to rule them, just like all the other nations had.
Eventually, God gave the Israelites what they asked for.
First, God gave them a king named Saul.
But when Saul disobeyed God, he lost his crown.
When it was time for a new king to be chosen, God chose someone pretty unlikely — a young, unknown shepherd boy named David.
God chose David (like Saul before him) to wear the crown, wield the power, and reflect God's character to the people of Israel.
And David did — for a while.
But like King Saul before him, and so many leaders before that, and every follower of God who has ever lived, David got distracted.
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