Icebreakers - Valentine's Day - If You Love Me

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Icebreakers Valentines Day

- If You Love
Me
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This popular
icebreaker game is a
great discussion
starter for Valentines
Day and introducing
the concept of God's
unmerited love for
us.
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What You Need

You need a chair
for each youth
Youll need enough
open space to
arrange the chairs
in a circle.
Preparation
1. Place the chairs in a circle
facing inward. There should
be one chair for each youth
you expect to play the game.
2. Ask the youth to each sit in a
chair.
3. Once all the youth have taken
a seat, remove any extra
chairs and close up the circle
so there are no gaps.
4. Then randomly select one
youth to stand in the center
of the circle and remove his
or her chair from the circle as
well.
What to do
1. All the youth should be sitting in
chairs except one who is standing
in the center of the circle of chairs.
2. His or her objective is to take the
seat of someone sitting in the
circle and force them into the
center.
3. This is done by getting someone in
the circle to smile. The youth in
the center of the circle must go up
to someone sitting opposite sex
and saying the following exact
words in whatever manner
desired to get a smile: Honey, if
you love me would you please,
please, smile.
The youth who is chosen must

keep eye contact and say the
exact words, Honey, I love
you, but I just cant smile
without cracking even the
slightest smile and keeping a
straight face the entire time.
If he/she smiles, then he/she
gives up the chair to the
person in the middle and now
must stand in the middle for
another round of the game.
6.
7.
If the chosen youth fails to

smile, whoever is in the
center must choose a
different person and try
again. This continues until
someone smiles and is
forced to give up a seat.
Continue for several rounds
long enough for it to be
exciting and fun, but not too
long or it will get boring.
8.
The youth will quickly

discover who is an easy
target and cant keep a
straight face. To make the
person smile, they can
make funny faces, speak in
strange voices, and make
gestures and move around.
The only rule is they cannot
touch the person they are
trying to make smile.
TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
As people, we often place
conditions on our love. I will love
you if If you love me you will I
love you because.. We usually love
people because of who they are or
what they do. But Gods love for
you completely transcends who
you are and what you do. He, who
knows you best, in all of your sinful
actions, unclean thoughts, and
hurtful words, loves you most.
But doesnt scripture place

conditions on Gods love?
John 14:21 Whoever has my
commands and keeps them is
the one who loves me. The one
who loves me will be loved by
my Father, and I too will love
them and show myself to them.
Exodus 20:5-6 You shall not bow
down to them or worship them;
for I, the Lord your God, am a
jealous God, punishing the
children for the sin of the
parents to the third and fourth
generation of those who hate
me, but showing love to a
thousand generations of those
who love me and keep my
commandments.
John 16:27 No, the Father

himself loves you because you
have loved me and have
believed that I came from
God.
1 John 4:15-16 If anyone
acknowledges that Jesus is the
Son of God, God lives in them
and they in God. And so we
know and rely on the love God
has for us.
If anyone acknowledges that
Jesus is the Son of God, God
lives in him and he in God. And
so we know and rely on the
love God has for us. (1 John
4:15-16)
God loved us first. His love is

freely given. It is not based on
who you are or what youve
done, but it is instead based on
WHO HE IS and what HE HAS
DONE. His love is unchanging as
he is unchanging. It will not be
taken away. But there is one
condition. WE MUST ACCEPT IT
OR RECEIVE IT!
AN ILLUSTRATION
Someone once explained it this way.
Imagine yourself carrying a large box
filled with everything you value
most in life. It take both arms and all
your strength just to carry it. And
God walks in will another box filled
with all his love, his blessing, his
riches, the best of everything. It is
offered to you completely free,
unconditional, everything is yours
for the taking. From Gods
perspective it is given to you
regardless of who your are or what
you have done.
It is an unconditional gift,
unmerited favor, grace. But from
your perspective there is a
condition. You must first put
down the box you are holding
before you can receive the box
God is offering. The condition is
not on Gods side but on yours.
Are you willing to receive it? To
do so, you must give up what you
are holding and hold on to what
he has offered.
THE NATURE OF GODS LOVE

1. God loved you before you chose
him.
Romans 5:6-8 You see, at just
the right time, when we were
still powerless, Christ died for
the ungodly. Very rarely will
anyone die for a righteous man,
though for a good man
someone might possibly dare
to die. But God demonstrates
his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
Ephesians 1:4-6 For he chose

us in him before the creation
of the world to be holy and
blameless in his sight. In love
he predestined us to be
adopted as his sons through
Jesus Christ, in accordance
with his pleasure and will to
the praise of his glorious
grace, which he has freely
given us in the Beloved.
Ephesians 2:4-5 But

because of his great love for
us, God, who is rich in
mercy, made us alive with
Christ even when we were
dead in transgressions it
is by grace you have been
saved.
John 3:16 For God so loved
the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have
eternal life.
2. Gods love is not based on who

you are, but who he is. God loves
you, not because you deserve it,
but because he CHOSE to love
you. There is nothing you can do,
say, or be, to deserve Gods love.
Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by
grace you have been saved,
through faith and this is
not from yourselves, it is the
gift of God not by works, so
that no one can boast.
1 John 4:8-10 This is how

God showed his love among
us: He sent his one and only
Son into the world that we
might live through him. This
is love: not that we loved
God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our
sins.
Romans 3:23-24 For all have
sinned and fall short of the
glory of God, and are
justified FREELY by his GRACE
through the redemption that
came through Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 3:16-21 I pray that

from his glorious, unlimited
resources he will empower you
with inner strength through his
Spirit. Then Christ will make his
home in your hearts as you trust
in him. Your roots will grow
down into Gods love and keep
you strong. And may you have
the power to understand, as all
Gods people should, how wide,
how long, how high, and how
deep his love is. May you
experience the love of Christ,
though it is too great to
understand fully. Then you will
be made complete with all the
fullness of life and power that
comes from God.
1 John 3:1 How great is the

love the Father has lavished
on us, that we should be
called children of God! And
that is what we are! The
reason the world does not
know us is that it did not
know him.
3. Gods love for you is unchanging

Romans 11:29 For Gods gifts and
his call are irrevocable.
Romans 8:38-39 For I am
convinced that neither death
nor life, neither angels nor
demons, neither the present
nor the future, nor any
powers, neither heighth nor
depth,nor anything else in all
creation will be able to
separate us from the love of
God that is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
Psalm 48:9 Within your

temple, O God, we meditate
on your unfailing love.
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD
appeared to us in the past,
saying: I have loved you with
an everlasting love; I have
drawn you with lovingkindness.
Psalm 136:26 Give thanks to
the God of heaven. His love
endures forever.
Lamentations 3:22 25
Because of the LORDs great
love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never
fail. They are new every
morning; great is your
faithfulness. I say to myself,
The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.
The LORD is good to those
whose hope is in him, to the
one who seeks him.
MAKE IT PRACTICAL
Do you ever feel that God
loves you and cares for you
us more when you have
pleased Him? Explain.
Do you feel that He loves you
less when you sin? Explain.
Do you believe that your
performance makes God
love you more? Explain.
What encouragement do
these verses on Gods love
offer to those who feel God
loves them less when they
fail?
MAKE IT PERSONAL
Is there anything in your life
that you are holding on to
that prevents you from freely
accepting Gods love and all
that he offers to you? Whats
holding you back?
Which of these verses is most
meaningful to you and how
can knowledge of the truths
contained in that verse
enable you to live a fuller,
more abundant Christian life,
embraced in the love of God?
KEY SCRIPTURE
Romans 5:6-8 You see, at just
the right time, when we were
still powerless, Christ died for
the ungodly. Very rarely will
anyone die for a righteous man,
though for a good man someone
might possibly dare to die. But
God demonstrates his own love
for us in this: While we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.
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Icebreakers Valentines Day

What You Need

The youth who is chosen must

If the chosen youth fails to

The youth will quickly

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL

But doesnt scripture place

John 16:27 No, the Father

God loved us first. His love is

THE NATURE OF GODS LOVE

Ephesians 1:4-6 For he chose

Ephesians 2:4-5 But

2. Gods love is not based on who

1 John 4:8-10 This is how

Ephesians 3:16-21 I pray that

1 John 3:1 How great is the

3. Gods love for you is unchanging

Psalm 48:9 Within your

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