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Activity: Describe how people used to demonstrate humility by bowing before each
other. Have everyone get down and feel what it is like to bow before someone else. Have
them start by simply bowing their heads to each other. Then have them bend over at the
waist. Then get down on one knee, then two. Then bend with their heads almost touching
the ground. Many scriptures talk about people laying flat on the ground.
We don’t bow much today. Discuss ways we can show genuine humility to each other -
not just polite actions.
Object Lesson: Give each student a plain balloon. show students how a deflated balloon
is pliable. You can stretch it, wrap it around things, put it inside other things, pull it over
smaller things. Then have everyone blow up their balloons. Talk about how it is no
longer flexible. It is puffed up now, and can only be one shape. It is only able to be used
for certain things.
A puffed up person is not as useful to God as a flexible, pliable, humble person. Humility
makes us flexible, useable, and moldable in God's work.
Craft: Draw pictures or cut out pictures of things that God has made or done that we can
not do.
True or False
linguistic questions
1. Define humble.
2. Define prayer.
3. What is a Pharisee?
4. What is a Publican?
activity questions
1. Lead the group in a short prayer, asking forgiveness for our sins.
2. Act out the Pharisee and publican.
3. Draw a picture of the temple.
emotion questions
application questions
fact questions
1. Did both men believe in God?
2. What was the Pharisee thankful for?
3. What did the publican ask of God?
review questions
Memory Work
• "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." James 4:6
• "Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will exalt you." James 4:10
Memory Work:
Re-inflate the balloons. Write the memory verse across the row of balloons. Deflate or
pop one at a time as the students read it together until they know the whole verse.