Here is another Getting to Know You activity that we use to try and place the Bible stories into chronological sequence.

Time Line Trivia

Purpose:

1. Review the concept of the timeline in our workshop rooms.
2. Put Bible facts into time perspectives

Supplies:

• Bible facts, one per page
• traffic cones
• 2 blindfolds
• Bibles, concordance (optional)
• Whistle and some other noise-maker

Preparation in Advance:

• Write one historical fact or scripture quote on each piece of paper and tape each one to a traffic cone.
• Prepare two sets for two teams. They may be the same facts for each team or a different set.
• This game is best played outside or in a large area.
  
  

Playing Timeline Trivia:

1. The objective of the game is to place the Bible events in the order they occurred before the other team can do it.
   
   
2. Divide the group into 2 teams.
   
   Older children: Each team chooses one person to be blindfolded. The idea is for the rest of the team to verbally assist the blindfolded person in placing the cones in the proper order before the other team can do it.
   
   Younger children Work as a team altogether. It requires teamwork to complete the task.
   
   
3. Older children When a team thinks they have it right, one sighted person can ask the coach for a reading. If the order is correct, the coach blows a whistle and that team is finished. If the order is not correct, the coach uses the noisemaker. A team can only get one false reading without penalty. Subsequent false readings require the team to sit on their hands (or some other time-out) for 5 seconds before they can resume again.
   
   
4. When both teams have their events in correct order, gather to discuss.
   
   

Discussion:

Was it hard to put these events in order?
What strategy did you use? (look up in Bible, concordance, work together as a team, decide who would look up what)
What was it like for the blindfolded person?
Why might it be important to understand the order in which events occurred in the Bible?
Who or what might the blindfolded person represent?

Facts:

Make up your own.
We used scripture quotes.

• “The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep.”
• “And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.”
• “Abram took his wife Sarai . . . and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan.”
• “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back . . .and turned the sea into dry land.”
• “They anointed David King over Israel . . . and he reigned for forty years.”
• “A servant of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem . . . and carried into exile the rest of the people.”
• “Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea.”
• “I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised.”
• “Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them. . . . All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit.”
• “As Saul was approaching Damascus, a light from heaven flashed around him and a voice said, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’”
  
  

Sources

(Adapted from: Gigantic Book of Games for Youth Ministry, Group Publishing)