Leader Guide
Review Activity
- Four unlit birthday candles
- Four large plastic cups
- Eight socks—four socks of one color and four of another
- Optional: masking tape or painter’s tape
- Timer such as a stopwatch, clock or watch with a second hand, or timer app
- One assistant
- Whiteboard and marker or chalkboard and chalk to keep score
- Bible or Superbook Bible app
- Reference Sermon on the Mount True and False Review Answers
Place a line or mark on the floor.
Place the cups on the floor about 8–10 feet from the line, with about 2 feet between them.
Place an unlit birthday candle under each cup.
Make four balls by rolling up two socks of the same color together.
Shining Review: Play a game to review the Bible story.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said in Matthew 5:15:
There are four candles representing our light under the cups; can you see them? No! According to the verse we read, would Jesus be happy with our lights being hidden? No!
Just like the baskets in the verse, the cups should not be placed over the lights. Your job is to try and uncover the lights by knocking over the cups with these balls.
Hold up the socks. I will first ask one review question to the players, and then you will have a chance to roll two sock balls to uncover the candles. Are you ready to shine?
Divide the class into two teams. They do not need to be equal.
A player from each team stands behind the mark.
Ask the same review question from the list to both players. Feel free to add your own questions. The players have five seconds on the timer to quietly tell the assistant or teacher their answer without the other player hearing it. Both answers are revealed, and, if correct, both teams are awarded five points. If an answer is incorrect, no points are scored for that team.
Ask the teams to tell you the correct answer for any wrong answer.
Give two sock balls to each player.
Each player can roll one sock ball at a time toward the cups to try to knock them over and reveal the light by uncovering the candle.
One point is scored for a player’s team for each cup knocked over.
The two players then retrieve the socks and put the cups over the candles again.
The next two players take a turn.
The team with the most points wins.
Questions and Answers
1. Fill in the blank: Jesus said, “God blesses those who mourn, for they will be _____. (Comforted)
2. T/F: Only a small group of people listened to Jesus teach. (False—large crowds)
3. T/F: Jesus said the Kingdom of God belongs to the rich in spirit. (False—the poor in spirit)
4. T/F: Jesus said those who are weak would inherit the earth. (False—Meek)
5. T/F: Meek means “power out of control.” (False—power under control)
6. T/F: Jesus said all who hunger and thirst for food and water will be filled. (False—righteousness)
7. Fill in the blank: Jesus said that all who are merciful will obtain _____. (Mercy)
8. Fill in the blank: Jesus said that the pure in _____ will see God. (Heart)
9. T/F: Jesus said that troublemakers would be called the sons of God. (False—peacemakers)
10. T/F: Jesus told us to hate our enemies. (False—Love them)
11. T/F: Jesus said to curse those who bless us. (False—Bless those who curse us)
12. T/F: Jesus said to pray loudly so everyone can hear us. (False—pray in secret)
13. Fill in the blank: Jesus teaches us to lay up our treasure in _____. (Heaven)
14. T/F: Jesus told us to do good deeds to bring praise to God. (True)
15. T/F: Jesus said it is fine to worry about everything. (False—Trust God instead)
16. T/F: Jesus said we are the light of the world. (True)
17. T/F: Jesus said we are to build our houses on water. (False—solid rock)
18. Fill in the blank: Jesus said that all who listen and do His sayings are _____. (Wise)
19. T/F: Jesus calls us to love just like He loves. (True)
20. T/F: Jesus said that the Roman Centurion had great faith. (True)