Kairos Course 11-14
Session 6: Travelling Light
Main Aim: To explore the challenges of the Kairos theme “Travelling Light”
Leaders Notes:
The Body of Christ is made up of many parts & on the
move. The church is moving to a new place, into 21st
century Britain. We need to think about what this new
place we are in is like, & what does God want us to do as
church.
Opener: What are we thinking about?
Activity 5mins Choice 1/2 A Journey into the unknown
Ask the group to get comfortable and to close
their eyes; then read through the following
reflection;
Imagine that it is tomorrow morning; you wake up
and head out as normal. (Pause) Just before
lunchtime you receive a message. You will be picked
up in 10 mins, taken home to pack your bags. You
will then be flown to a strange country; you will not
be able to contact anyone before you go. How do
you feel, what is going through your head? (Pause)
You return home, and pack a bag of personal items;
what do you take with you? (Pause) As the car
leaves for the airport, you look out of the back
window. What are your feelings as you look at your
home for the last time? (Pause) You arrive at the
airport & board the plane. You do not know where
you are going or what will happen when you get
there. What are you thinking about? (Pause) An Air
Steward asks you if every thing is alright; what do
you say to them?
Ask the group what they felt about that situation?
What was going through their minds at the
different points in the story?
Video 7mins Choice 2/2
In the tank
Show the short clip from ‘Finding Nemo’ where
Nemo is first in the fish tank & meets all the other
fish. How does Nemo feel? What new
situations/places have you gone in to? How have
you felt when you have gone somewhere for the
first time? How do you feel about travelling to
new/different places?
Going deeper: Taking a closer look
Activity 5mins Choice 1/2
Weighing you down
Ask for a volunteer; get them to do a few
exercises - running on the spot, jumping on & off a
chair, press ups. Then get them to do the same
again but with a backpack full of heavy objects,
bricks, stone, weights, hardback Bibles. Ask them
which time was easier. Then get the group to look
at these verses; Matthew 28:19-20, Matthew
28:19-20, John 13:43-35. These are the things
that Jesus told us to do, but what can weigh us
down & make it difficult for us to do them? Get
the group to think of answers & write/stick them
on the objects in the bag, and put them back in the
bag.
Discuss 5mins Choice 2/2
Major Disaster
Get the group to imagine that last night the church
tower/roof was struck by lighting and collapsed.
The church is now unable to be used. Also the
Church hall was destroyed beyond repair by a gas
explosion. So, all the church buildings have been
wiped-out. The group needs to come up with ideas
about how your church is going to go on without any
buildings; what should the church do? Chat about
their answers. Highlight to them that this is the
situation of Christians around the world, that they
do not have purpose-built building like ours.
Going deeper: Taking a look at God’s word
Discuss 10mins Core
“What are you up too?”
Ask the group to think of between 7-10 things that
the church of which they are part does regularly.
Then get them to read Acts 2:42-47. Every time
they hear something that the church in Acts did
they have to stand up & that activity needs to be
added to a list of Acts Church activities. Compare
the two lists, how are they similar, how are they
different? How many of the activities, from either
list, are they involved in? Who is involved in the
different activities listed? Who should be involved
in the different activities?
(Purpose: To make them think about what the
church should be doing & what they should be
doing as part of the church.)
Interactive Talk 3-5mins Core ‘Taking Away’
On a large piece of paper draw the shape of a
church building. On smaller bits of paper get the
group to write down as many things as they can
think of that church is about. Also draw a shape of
a person and on this place the group’s suggestions
of things we should do as Christians. Next, from
the list of Church things, ask the group to take
away anything that a church can do without & still
be church. Explain that we sometimes get mixed up
about what being God’s people is really all about.
Get them to take away from the body image
anything that is not 100% necessary for us to do as
Christians. Hopefully, these lists will be quite
different. Now say that you have made a mistake &
change over the suggestions from the picture of
the body to the picture of the church. Explain to
the group that being church is really about being a
Christian and doing this alongside other Christians,
to help & support them; that is what church is
about.
Reflecting: God & us
Activity 10mins Choice
We believe!
Go over with the group all the pervious sessions
and read through the end of session summary
posters. Ask them to produce 10 things that sum
up what the group has covered & which are
important to the Kairos process.
Prayer 5mins Choice
Throwing off the load
Pass around the bag from “Weighing you down”, as
one group or in smaller groups. Ask people to take
out an object & pray about the problem written on
it.
Conclusion 5mins Core
Ask the group to sum up what they think is the
single most important thing that they have thought
about/learnt in this session
Ask the group what they now think ‘Kairos’ is
about.
Using the summing up wall display talk them
through all the things that the group has looked at.
Explain that Kairos is about realizing what are the
most important things God wants us to do & how do
we go about doing them, in our own lives and as a
church.
List of things Need:
Tick the first box for what you will be using and the second for when you have it
You say we play cards
Paper, pens and card
Video
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“Is” & “God” cards
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Trinity Pictures
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Words & illustration for talk
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Copies of Quote Sheet
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