The Discovery material is actually not very good. But is the best I can come up with. Let me know if you have something better and maybe we can use it next year. Make sure you ask them the additional questions in bold.

In this lesson we introduce God as 1) the Creator who created us to trust and obey Him and 2) the Righteous Judge who will assess our trust and obedience. For most of the youth they will not have problem accepting that God is the Creator and Righteous Judge Why? Because they have been brought up on them since young. BUT what they have problem is with their trust and obedience.

Why do they have problem trust and obeying God?

Reason (1) is because Man's nature is sinful. We cannot do anything about this in one lesson so we will ignore it for now. Reason (2) is that they don't really believe in God (lack faith). They believe God enough to say that he is God, Creator, Righteous Judge, but not enough to trust and obey Him all the time. So actually deep down they don't fully believe. We should begin to address this now.

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Start by asking them "Who do you think God is?". Hear each one of them out and leaders should also share.

Start on the material.

After covering Gen 1:1, you may want to cover gearing up 1b (the origami) and ask them "Who do you think made Man". Otherwise skip it.

After covering Gen 2:7, you can proceed to show them the interesting object that you have brought (gearing up 1a). If you are using some other hook please use it where appropriate. Ask them to guess the object's purpose. If they are unable to guess correctly after a few tries tell them the answer.

Ask them to guess what God's purpose for them is.

Explain the diagram to them. Go through the rest of the material.

At the end of the day ask them these questions to awaken their own faith:
Do you trust and obey God?
Why do you trust and obey God?

You may wish to share this verse...

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. - 1 John 4:10

... if we are honest with ourselves, God loves us a lot more than we love God... we should strive to love God more so our response should be to trust and obey Him.

Close in Prayer.

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If there is time you may wish to share your testimony of why you try hard to trust and obey God.