OPTION 1: BLITZ CHESS
If you know how to play the game of chess, that’s amazing! There are many strategies and the game is known for taking a long time. World championships might last for days, with 90 minutes allowed for each move. But there are much shorter ways to play chess. At some tournaments all the moves must be completed in 60 minutes for Action Chess, 30 minutes for Quick Chess, and 10 minutes for Blitz Chess. For the Youth Sabbath School opening activity, use Blitz Chess. If you don’t move in that time frame, you’ve lost the game. There are actual chess timers with flags (if you want to get that involved).
If you don’t know how to play, get overview at https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Blitz-Chess. For a video of how to play.
OPTION 2: IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS
Some people are open to instructions, while others tend to ignore instructions. Sometimes instructions are vitally important, such as how to get into a locked room you need to enter right now. If you don’t really need to get into that locked room, those instructions aren’t very important—at least not now. But want if you want to get into that locked room? Then instructions become important to you again.
Arrange the following 10 types of instructions in the order of importance to you. These can also be downloaded and printed on one sheet of paper in Word or PDF format, or you can download them as single sheets for youth to arrange with the PowerPoint, Keynote, or PDF version in a large format.
- How to drive a vehicle
- How to open your parents’ safe
- How to pray
- How to use a cell phone
- How to obtain salvation
- How to get a certain person to like you
- How to succeed in taking the SAT test
- How to lead a Youth Sabbath School discussion
- How to be a good friend
- How to make your church awesome
TRANSITION
As we consider “First Things First” today, we continue the flow of the story of God’s people entering the Promised Land of Canaan. Last week the walls of Jericho miraculously came tumbling down. Everything is going great now, right? Well, first things first, as we’ll see in today’s lesson.