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A Microphone Enhanced Discussion Technique

Years ago I did a sort of DRAMA workshop on this story using a guitar amplifier and a microphone. This is the hook: Kids love to hear themselves amplified.

(Note: I WISH I had had two amplifiers and microphones.)

We passed the microphone around after our study for the kids to answer the question "What would God's still small voice sound like to you?" It was fun, took some encouragement, but created a lot of discussion.

Then we asked the question, "What thing in your life do you think God wants to change the MOST about you" ...and passed around the microphone again to hear the kids respond AS GOD in a very small voice. 

After that we did a twist... After the person spoke 'as God' to the thing in their life God might want changed, the teacher then asked that students what EXCUSE they usually used not to change and had them shout that back at God over the microphone (like Elijah in the cave giving his excuse). (Some students couldn't think of an excuse, but others were ready to offer them and asked for the microphone.)

After they shouted their excuse, we passed the mike to at least two other students and asked them pretend to be God's still small voice addressing/challengin that EXCUSE. The microphone was the key, and the teacher had to encourage the students.

Then we passed the mike around again and had the kids whisper the names of people in their lives they know they can turn to for help with their problems. (I had the volume cranked! ...but encouraged the kids to whisper it very softly...which was a fun way to do it). This "Names of People" dovetails with God's whisper to "go annount Hazel and Jehu, and find Elisha to help you."

As a final bit of demonstration....we addressed how a person might FEEL when they felt God speaking to them, ...that a small whisper of God's voice can be a powerful thing in your life. To illustrate this, I had each child put their belly up to the amplifier as I turned up the volume and whispered into the microphone. They got a rumble in their belly.

As part of this demonstration, we also talked about "how God speaks through others to amplify his message". I had the kids stack their Bibles all over the amplifier, then we took turns passing the mike around so that each could say what they thought God MOST wanted us to here. Again, it took some priming of the pump, but it was VERY memorable.

<>< Neil

Addendum:
In a children's sermon I once did something similar which could have made a great ending to this "Amplified Drama" workshop.

I asked the kids "what would be louder... one person shouting into the microphone or a whole group of us shouting?" I sent a kid up to the lectern mike to shout the message "God Loves you and has forgiven your sins". I then asked the kids to shout it. Then I asked the congregation to really shout it. The congregation just about blew the doors off the place.

I then asked them all to whisper it, reminding the kids that God doesn't shout so much, but rather, like he did with Elijah he used a small voice.

File this under: "One great reason we come to church is to learn WHAT to shout and to COMBINE our voices so more people will hear the message."

Last edited by Luanne Payne
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