Oops, you did it again. You waited until Wednesday to prepare your lesson and you ended up spending the whole morning on Facebook and all afternoon playing with iOS 6, now group is a couple of hours away and you have bupkis to share. What do you do?
Here are a few easy steps to quickly get yourself out of this mess:
Step 1 - Start looking through podcasts you have listened to recently for a message that you can copy.
Step 2 - Realize that you don't have time to re-listen to them and pick out all the main points and scriptures references (besides it would probably go over your students heads anyways).
Step 3 - Google "free youth ministry devos".
Step 4 - Quit searching because all the websites lessons are either twenty pages long or require you to submit a bunch of personal information, and you just don't have time for that either.
Step 5 - Think about talking to the kids about that mission trip to Honduras you took in college.
Step 6 - Remember that you have already used that one three times already.
Step 7 - Start to panic because you still don't have a lesson and you need to leave soon if you are going to pick up some Taco Bell for dinner before youth group.
Step 8 - Frantically thumb through that old Youth Specialties book the last youth pastor left behind of one hundred easy object lessons.
Step 9 - Kill the lesson you thought you could do because the Children's Ministry started locking their supply cabinet since they found out you where "borrowing" stuff from them.
Step 10 - Pick a random NOOMA video off of your bookshelf.
And there you have it, a quick fix to your devotional dilemma. Tune in next time where we will teach you how to get through planning your Sunday School lesson after spending your entire Saturday evening playing X-Box Live!
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