Breakthrough

Materials
Cardboard or newsprint, or paper large enough to block the door of the room.

1. Using cardboard boxes block off the entrances to the classroom. You can even tape paper over the door if nothing else. You might paint it or draw bricks on it so it looks like a wall.
2. Have youth bust through the paper to enter the classroom.
3. Discuss the obstacles we have to living our faith in a world that does not know God. How can we bust through these obstacles like we did the wall blocking the classroom door?
4. Give each youth a peice of paper or cardboard used to block the door. Have them write obstacles on one side and ways we can break through the obstacles with God's provision on the other side.

Variation
As an alternative object lesson bring in a small brick or piece of wood painted to look like a brick for each student. Have the youth write a symbol of at least one obstacle they face in their spiritual lives onto this brick and keep it in a prominent place at home to remind them that there is no obstacle God cannot overcome in your walk with Him.

Scripture
2 Kings 1:1-4:44

Summary
God wants to help us move beyond the obstacles in life.