This step will help your students identify and practice a right response to the divine nature of Jesus Christ. If your class is meeting online, you can use the breakout room feature of your video chat software to divide teens into groups. In place of butcher paper, you can invite teens to take notes with paper and pens/pencils at home.

At the start of the lesson, we watched a video that outlined what to do in the presence of the royal family. Let’s switch it up and determine how we would write an article with a new headline: FOUR THINGS WE SHOULD NEVER DO WHEN WE APPROACH JESUS.  

Divide teens into groups and distribute supplies (or invite students to have them ready at home). Instruct groups to write down four inappropriate ways to respond to Jesus’ divine nature. If they’re stuck, consider sharing one or more examples, such as “Never Use His Name in a Profane Way” or “Don’t Trivialize Prayer Time with Disrespectful Conversation,” and so forth.

When they are done writing down four items, have each group (one at a time) share their best/unique example on a whiteboard (or screenshared document) for the class to see.

Now, have each group turn their paper to the blank side and add “Four Worshipful Ways to Respond to Jesus.” These can be things like “Respect Places of Worship by Taking Care of Them” or “Treat the Bible as Sacred Rather than an Ordinary Book.”

When they are done writing down four items, have each group (one at a time) share their best/unique example on a whiteboard (or screenshared document) for the class to see.

When you’ve shared the best of both sides of the poster, discuss the following questions as you end the lesson.

• Did you know that Muslims are not allowed to represent Mohammad in any drawings, artwork, or other representations? Have you ever seen people disrespect or defile images of Jesus? (Our culture doesn’t think twice about using Jesus’s name or likeness in all kinds of comic, trivial, or disrespectful ways such as bobblehead Jesus, cartoons, memes, etc.)
• Sometimes young people dismiss the requests of “You need to take this seriously!” as just the outdated scolding of the older generation. How is our response to Jesus something quite different? (Taking Jesus seriously isn’t merely about etiquette or good manners; it’s about acknowledging His holiness and divinity, the “separateness” of a Creator from His creation.)
• It’s difficult to treat Christ and His Word as sacred when we live in a highly casual and sarcastic society. How can you implement some of the things we wrote on our posters? (Awareness is a good start. Encouraging each other to treat Jesus, the Bible, the church, and prayer with seriousness helps reinforce a sacred response. Praying for humility or reading through Scripture with reverence leads us to a right attitude.)

One practical step for your students would be to take a photo of their posters or lists with their cell phones. As they scroll through their photo stream in the coming days and weeks, it will remind them of the proper attitude to adopt toward a holy God. Ask your students to formulate in their minds one thing they can do out of respect for the Lord on this Resurrection Day. Encourage them to follow through and share about it with the class next week.

Close in prayer.