Out of Tune?

Materials
Guitar that is intentionally "out of tune"

Activity
1. Choose a song that everyone is familiar with and begin singing it with a guitar that is badly "out of tune". Participants are sure to stop you or say something about the "out of tune" guitar.

2. Get someone to tune only the first guitar string using a tuning fork, piano, electronic tuner, or a pitch pipe. Sing again!

3. Keep trying until you have tuned each string.

Debrief
Christians are like this "out of tune" guitar. Everything has to be right, each string right, so that we are in tune with God. A string can't be too tight or too loose or it will not be right. All of us have to make choices in life. Some things are right and some choices are wrong. When we make bad choices we get out of God's will - out of tune and our life sounds terrible to God.

What are some things you might be too tightly strung about? What affect does that have on your relationship with God?

What did we use to correctly tune the guitar strings?
A standard for comparison. A pitch fork et. al. is already set to the correct pitch. By comparing the sound of the string to the sound of the pitch fork we can set the string to the right tune.

What is the standard we need to determine if our life is correct or not?
Our standard is the bible. We compare our life to what the Bible says is right and wrong and we can discover if our life is in tune.

After the guitar has been tuned, sing through several songs the youth know that deal with following God.