Stri ke Fo rce (Turn the other cheek)
Wha t I t ’s All Abou t Everyone has a tough day. You feel like everyone else is picking on you. Maybe you get gossiped about. You have something stolen. Or maybe it’s the accumulation of a lot of little things gone wrong—it’s just a bad day. God can use days even like these. In fact, there are plenty of times he can use days like these more than the others. It’s when we’re facing the tough stuff that we can actually smell the best to others, the fragrance of Christ emanating from our lives.
Ge t It S t a r t e d What’s needed: A few blindfolds; as many normal, funky, or downright nasty smelling things as you can get together (just remember, they must have noticeable odor)! Something smells fishy? Tonight you get to test students on the old olfactory system. Call up a few volunteers—maybe three to five—and blindfold them. Tell them you will put different items under their noses, and they have to guess what they’re smelling. Don’t let the students touch the items. Start out simple at first with things like oranges, coffee, hot cider. Then move on to things that are a bit more difficult, like fish, slightly rotten eggs, mustard. Get as many odd objects as you can and finish with the downright strange: things like dog food, fish food, hot salsa—whatever works. Have someone keep score round by round. See whose nose knows the best. Give the winner the pick of any of the smelly items; you’ll get plenty of groans there!
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