Object Lesson - Spoon Fed Christians

Object Lesson
- Spoon Fed
Christians
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We often use the term
“spoon fed” to refer to
babies. It is also used for
people who have been given
so much by others that they
never learn how to think for
themselves or take care of
themselves. Scripture uses a
similar term to describe some
Christians. Like a spoon fed
baby, some Christians have
never grown up in their faith.

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Games using Spoons
Cotton Ball Spooner – Each youth
is blindfolded, given a metal
spoon, and placed in front of a
large bowl of cotton balls. They
must also hold a bowl or cup on
top of their head. In the time
given they youth compete by
using the spoon to scoop the
cotton balls into the cups on their
heads while everyone else
watches. Many times, they will
deliver empty spoons to their
heads and many times they will
miss the cup. When time is up,
the youth with the most cotton
balls in the cup wins.

Fastest Spoon – Get two volunteer
victims from each team. Both
youths will need to put on a big
garbage bag with arm / head holes
so they don’t get messy! The first
youth sits on a chair. The second
person is given a bowl of chocolate
pudding with a spoon and stands
behind them whilst blindfolded.
The idea is that the person who is
blindfolded has to feed the other
person by following their verbal
instructions. Alternatively you
could get other members of the
team to hold to bowl or give
instructions. First team to finish
wins.

Hang it on your beak – The first
youth to hang a spoon on his or
her nose for more than 30
seconds wins. Variation: how
many spoons can they hang from
their face? Variation: See who can
get the spoon off the nose and
into his or her mouth using only
his or her tongue. BTW, there is a
world record for the most spoons
hanging on a person’s face. It is 31
and was achieved by Dalibor
Jablanovic (Serbia), in Stubica,
Serbia, on 28 September 2013.
Can you break it?

Musical Spoons – While the music
is playing, a spoon is passed from
person to person. When the
music stops, the person holding
the spoon must eat something
gross like baby food and is
eliminated from the game play.
Potato Fencing – Players hold a
spoon with a potato on it in one
hand. In the other hand the
players hold an empty spoon.
Then they try to knock the
opponents potato off the spoon
without losing their own potato.

Pudding Slurp – A new pair of
stockings per contestant, a small
bowl of pudding, some
newspaper to play on and some
damp towels for cleaning up.
Contestants pull the stocking over
their face and must race to eat all
their pudding through the
stocking.
Spoon clumps – Clang two metal
spoons together. If they clang 5
times then the youth must clump
together in groups of 5 persons. If
anyone is not in a group of five
they are eliminated from play.
Continue with different numbers
of clangs until there is one small
group of winners.

Spoon Delivery – Choose a
collection of objects of increasing
size to be passed from the front of
the line to the back of the line for
each team. To avoid chipping
teeth it might be best to use
plastic or wooden spoons. First
team to pass all the objects to the
end of the line wins. Here are
some ideas for objects: Cotton
Balls, Ping Pong Balls, an egg (raw
or hard boiled), marbles, lemon,
apple, inflated balloon, ice cube.

Spoon Feeding – Divide into
pairs. For each pair, tape a
spoon to the end of a
broomstick and place a bowl of
food on the table. One person
stands on one side of the table
and attempts to feed his or her
partner the food using the
spoon. The pair that eats the
most food in a minute wins.
Chocolate pudding works great
for this.

Spoon frog – Teams must launch
teaspoons into plastic cups, using
another spoon as a catapult.
When the timer starts, the person
must place a spoon in front of the
cup with the spoon end facing
him/her. Place the second spoon,
facing the same way, so that the
rounded end of the spoon is
resting on the end of the first
spoon. Then give the rounded end
of the first spoon a good whack to
send the second spoon flying.
Keep sending spoons into the air
and try to get one to land in a the
cups. First to get one in, or the
person who gets the most in the
cup in one minute wins.

Spoon fulls – Using spoons in the
mouth for each team member,
each individual team member will
scoop up dried beans or popcorn
kernels from a bowl and then
drop them into a 1 liter soda
bottle. At the end of one minute,
the team with the highest filled
bottle wins.
Spoon Launch – One team
member uses a spoon to launch
food to the other. The youth that
catches the most launched
peanuts, M&Ms, or kernels of
popcorn in their mouth wins.

Spoon Tunes – Place ten tall
drinking glasses that are filled
with different amounts of water
in order so that, when you tap
them in a row with a spoon,
they play a simple but familiar
tune like Mary Had a Little
Lamb. There should be one set
for each team. Set them up and
then scramble them so they
have to figure out the order.
Get the song right in under a
minute to win the game.

Spoons – Depending on the number of
players, you need at least one deck of
cards, and one spoon less than the
number of players. Players sit in a
circle with the spoons in the middle of
the circle with their ends touching. To
begin, each player is dealt 4 cards. The
first player picks up a card from the
top of the pile, and can choose to keep
it, or pass it to the person on his or her
left. Players can only hold a maximum
of four cards. When someone gets
four of a kind, he grabs a spoon. Once
one person grabs a spoon, everyone
else also grabs one until all the spoons
are gone and 1 person is left without a
spoon. Play resumes with one less
player and one less spoon. Play
continues until there is only one player
left, the winner.

Thread the Spoon – Cut some yarn
into long segments, allowing about 4
feet of yarn per team member. If in
doubt, always make your yarn longer
than necessary. Tie one end of one
piece of yarn to the end of one metal
spoon to create a needle and thread
for each team. Put the spoons (with
the yarn attached) in the FREEZER to
chill for at least an hour. If you want
to make it even more fun, feed the
string through an ice-cube tray so
that when the ice is removed it forms
cubes spaced along the string. In
teams, the first youth must put the
spoon down their shirt, through pants
legs (or skirts) and out by their feet
and repeat it down the line until
everyone on the team is connected.
First to finish wins.

Wooden Spoons – Blindfolded, a
youth must guess someone’s
identity by feeling them with
wooden spoons. Each person in
the youth group in turn is
guessed. Of course, any outburst
of laughter when the spoons are
going over a face would disclose
the identity, so participants must
keep perfect silence. When
anyone’s identity is guessed,
he/she has to be blindfolded and
must take the spoons. Be careful
when using the spoons to touch
another person with them quite
lightly, so as not to hurt anyone.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
Some of these games required us
to feed others with a spoon. We
often use the term spoon fed to
refer to babies. It is also used for
people who have been given so
much by others that they never
learn how to think for themselves
or take care of themselves.
Scripture uses a similar term to
describe some Christians. Like a
spoon fed baby, they have never
grown up in their faith. What is
normal for a baby is NOT normal
behavior for an adult.

• What are some things that
babies do, that adults
normally do not do?
• What are some immature,
childlike habits and actions
that might be ok for children,
but are not acceptable for
adults?

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
Read Hebrews 5:12-14 and 1
Corinthians 3:1-3.
• What were some of the
characteristics of the Christians
referred to in the scriptures?
• What are some of the signs of
Christian immaturity?
• What is it that spiritual babies
need to know and do in order
to mature?
• What are some characteristics
of spiritual maturity? What
attitudes and actions would you
expect to find in a mature
Christian?

MAKE IT PERSONAL
• How would you describe
your current level of
spiritual maturity? Why?
• In what ways have you
grown as a Christian?
• What do you need to do
to continue to grow and
mature as a Christian?

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURE VERSES
• 1 Peter 2:2-3 “Like newborn
babies, crave pure spiritual
milk, so that by it you may
grow up in your salvation,
now that you have tasted
that the Lord is good.”
• 2 Peter 3:18 “But grow in the
grace and knowledge of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To him be glory both now
and forever! Amen.”

• Ephesians 4:11-15 “So Christ himself
gave the apostles, the prophets, the
evangelists, the pastors and
teachers, to equip his people for
works of service, so that the body of
Christ may be built up until we all
reach unity in the faith and in the
knowledge of the Son of God and
become mature, attaining to the
whole measure of the fullness of
Christ. Then we will no longer be
infants, tossed back and forth by the
waves, and blown here and there by
every wind of teaching and by the
cunning and craftiness of people in
their deceitful scheming. Instead,
speaking the truth in love, we will
grow to become in every respect
the mature body of him who is the
head, that is, Christ.”

• 2 Thessalonians 1:3 “We
ought always to thank God
for you, brothers and
sisters,[a] and rightly so,
because your faith is
growing more and more,
and the love all of you
have for one another is
increasing.”

• Philippians 3:12-14 “Not that
I have already obtained all
this, or have already arrived
at my goal, but I press on to
take hold of that for which
Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers and sisters, I do not
consider myself yet to have
taken hold of it. But one
thing I do: Forgetting what is
behind and straining toward
what is ahead, I press on
toward the goal to win the
prize for which God has
called me heavenward in
Christ Jesus.”

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