The Bee Squad
Week 2: Emotions Change
The Point
What may feel like the end of the world actually isn’t.
Intro
Here’s what I want you to do. Picture the end of the world—how you think it would go down. Is it mass chaos? Are there just a few people wandering around looking for others? Is everything run-down and abandoned. Are things on fire? Are there zombies?
Turn to the person next to you and take 30 seconds to describe your version of the end of the world.
After about 30 seconds, have the other person share.
Now I want you to hold on to your idea of the end of the world. Keep it in your head. We’ll come back to it later.
But for right now, let’s go to week 2 of THE BEE SQUAD.
Play week 2.
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We learned a little bit about Beckett today. He was the funniest kid when he was growing up. But as he got older, he became sad, lonely, and depressed. His own classmates didn’t even recognize him.
Throughout the years, Beckett allowed different negative life experiences to victimize him. For him … it was the end of the world. He thought he’d feel that way forever and never be able to get out of it.
Tell a story about a time when you thought it was “the end of the world” for you and how you thought you’d be stuck feeling that way forever. But don’t talk about how you got out of it. We’ll come back to it.
Have you ever felt like that? Like what you were feeling was the end of your world? Like things would never be the same or good again?
Maybe you had a break up and you feel like you’ll never be happy again or that much in love with anyone again.
Maybe you got into a fight with your friends and you feel like it’s the end of them.
Or, things are falling apart with your family and you feel like your family will never be happy again.
Or, you’re not doing so well in school—you’re overwhelmed and you feel like you’ll be stressed out FOREVER.
Let me just put it plainly and simply. What may feel like the end of the world actually isn’t.
Okay, go back to the picture you came up with earlier, your version of the end of the world. No matter what you go through, it won’t cause that to happen. Because that’s the real end of the world, but what you have to go through is not. It may be incredibly hard. You may feel very strong emotions because of it, but it’s not the end of the world.
You will get out of it, move on from it, and feel a different way about it.
Let me show you why. Look at what it says in the Bible:
Ecclesiastes 3:1 & 4 NCV There is a time for everything, and everything on earth has its special season. … There is a time to cry and a time to laugh.
Life goes through seasons. Some seasons are great seasons—and some seasons are really bad. Some seasons are long and other are short. But no season lasts forever.
Talk about how you got out of and through the tough season you talked about earlier.
If you’re going through a tough season, know that it won’t last forever. If you feel heartbroken, lonely, sad, depressed, know that it’s a season, and you will get through it.
God uses those times when we feel like it’s the end of the world to start somethin new. To give new life. Some of you need that tonight.
(Eyes closed/heads bowed. Elaborate on these points below. These are just the general flow.)
Some of you have had to go through a tough season or you’ve been feeling some negative feelings recently. Now you know it’s not really the end of the world. It’s just a season. But you’re not sure how to get out of it. If you need some prayer to get through a hard season, then raise your hand right now and let me pray for you. … (Have them raise their hand and pray for them.)
There are others of you in the room today who’ve been trying to get through hard times on your own. You didn’t really know that you could go to God—or even how to go to God—to help you through. But now you know. There’s a God who is available to you. Who wants what’s best for your life. A God who loves you and will do anything for you. For some of you, it’s time for a season to change. It’s time to step out of the season of doing life on your own and step into a season where you let God be in control. Let Him lead your life. Let Him help you through. If that’s you, and you want to make that decision for the first time, then raise your hand right now, and everyone together repeat this prayer after me. … (Have them raise their hand and repeat prayer after you.)