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A. Life Was Good 4 on a Couch

1. Garden 2:8,9 Defend the Couch
2. Freedom 2:16
3. Interesting Stuff to do 2:19
4. A match made in heaven 2:22-24 Reconciled
5. Didn’t have to wear clothes 2:25
6. No sin!
B. Relationship was real Gen.
Break Out
What do you do with your friends?
3:8 Talk about how you enjoy your relationship with your
C. Friendship friends.
What do you do with God?
A. Life turns to Death Gen. 2:17, Or what can you do?
3:19 Talk about how you enjoy your relationship with God or
how you can.
B. Separated from God Gen.
3:8,23,24
C. Enemies with God Rom. 5:10 Hotdogs + Pop + Chips

A. Means to become a friend!

B. Rom. 5:6-11
C. Have you become his friend?
The Fortress
September 9th, 2007 - 6:30-8:00

The Fortress 5min

September 9th, 2007 - 6:30-8:00 4 on a Couch

Defend the Couch
5min
 Reconciled Talk about how you enjoy your relationship with your
friends.
What do you do with God?
Break Out Or what can you do?
What do you do with your friends? Talk about how you enjoy your relationship with God or
Talk about how you enjoy your relationship with your how you can.
friends.
What do you do with God? Hotdogs + Pop + Chips
Or what can you do?
Talk about how you enjoy your relationship with God or
how you can.
4 on a Couch!
Hotdogs + Pop + Chips Everyone writes their name on a piece of paper
and folds it up. Put all the pieces of paper in a

The Fortress
hat or bowl. Everyone takes a new paper out of
the hat. Now that is their new name, and they
can't show it to anyone. Everyone is sitting in a
circle with part of this circle containing a couch
or 4 seats designated as the "couch". The couch
September 9th, 2007 - 6:30-8:00 must have 2 girls and 2 boys seated on it in the
beginning. The object of the game is to get all
5min girls or all boys on the couch. It is good if you
have a fairly even split between the boys and
the girls if not you can assign some girls to be
4 on a Couch boys or vice versa. In your circle of chairs there
Defend the Couch should be an empty one. The person on the right
of the empty chair attempts to call off a boy or a
girl depending on what they are. If they are a
Reconciled boy they will want to call off a girl so a boy could
replace them on the couch. They call a name of
someone in the group but remember no one
Break Out knows anyone’s name yet. Who gets called goes
What do you do with your friends? and sits in the empty chair and exchanges
names with the one who called them. Now the
one on the right of the new empty chair calls
someone. It continues this way until you have all
girls or all boys on the couch. It really makes you
think because names are changed so often. No
one should be giving clues to the person whose
turn it is.
Defend the Couch
A couch per side with 3 people on each couch.
Played like regular dodge ball, except the goal is
to “sink the couch”. When everyone from the
couch is hit, that team has lost. If the couch is
hit 5 times it counts as a hit. People on the
couch may catch the ball to defend their couch,
but may not get hit by the ball. If the people on
the couch catch the ball they release everyone
on their team from jail! Play continues until
everyone from a couch is out!
4 on a Couch!
Everyone writes their name on a piece of paper
and folds it up. Put all the pieces of paper in a
hat or bowl. Everyone takes a new paper out of
the hat. Now that is their new name, and they
can't show it to anyone. Everyone is sitting in a
circle with part of this circle containing a couch
or 4 seats designated as the "couch". The couch
must have 2 girls and 2 boys seated on it in the
beginning. The object of the game is to get all
girls or all boys on the couch. It is good if you
have a fairly even split between the boys and
the girls if not you can assign some girls to be
boys or vice versa. In your circle of chairs there
should be an empty one. The person on the right
of the empty chair attempts to call off a boy or a
girl depending on what they are. If they are a
boy they will want to call off a girl so a boy could
replace them on the couch. They call a name of
someone in the group but remember no one
knows anyone’s name yet. Who gets called goes
and sits in the empty chair and exchanges
names with the one who called them. Now the
one on the right of the new empty chair calls
someone. It continues this way until you have all
girls or all boys on the couch. It really makes you
think because names are changed so often. No
one should be giving clues to the person whose
turn it is.
Defend the Couch
A couch per side with 3 people on each couch.
Played like regular dodge ball, except the goal is
to “sink the couch”. When everyone from the
couch is hit, that team has lost. If the couch is
hit 5 times it counts as a hit. People on the
couch may catch the ball to defend their couch,
but may not get hit by the ball. If the people on
the couch catch the ball they release everyone
on their team from jail! Play continues until
everyone from a couch is out!