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Talk 1 : God’s Love and His Plan for Us
Expanded Outline
I. INTRODUCTION
A. The Crazy Dream
(NOTE: The crazy dream exercise is done so that the speaker may have an amusing way of making the
participants realize God's tremendous love for them. Just as the participants may have their own "crazy dreams"
their own nearly impossible hopes of things that are better, God has His own seemingly impossible dream for us,
"a plan for a future and a hope" in union with Him. It is this plan for us that may be used to introduce God's love to
the participants.)
1. Ask the participants to write down in a piece of paper their greatest ambition or craziest dream. Give them
one to two minutes to write do this. Once you've collected these, read as many to the participants as
much as time will allow. You don't have to read all.
B. You may have your own reasons for being here(your friends are here, you want to meet new friends, your
parents forced you, you are truly seeking God).
I believe God brought you here, to hear about His love, and His plan in your life.
* You may be asking. “If God loves us so much, why are our lives and situations so different from what He says
His plans are for us?
* Show the disparity between God's plan (Isaiah 65:17-25) and the situation around us.
- on a larger scale: there are so many countries at war, in famine.
- on a local scale: we have crime and corruption.
- in our families: we have broken relationships; some people we know have broken families; relatives or even
ourselves addicted to drugs. .et. al.
NOTE: It would be good for the speaker to make use of the diagram below to illustrate how Christ bridges the gap
that sin creates between God and man.
DIAGRAM:
SIN
III. CONCLUSION
God has a seemingly insane love for us. A love that would suffer even death on a cross. Even if you were the only
one who needed saving, God would do it all for you. Let’s respond to this love. Let’s decide to love God back.
( Note: One way to challenge the participants to respond is to seek God during the camp, to participate, but all the
more, to receive God’s love and try to respond by desiring to know about God and to live for Him.)
DISCUSSION STARTERS:
1. Share an experience or area of your life where you felt most loved by God.
2. How can you respond to God’s love for you? (Make specific resolutions, e.g. start praying more often, do more
chores at home etc..)