What will your answer be? And if you answered heaps, do your best to keep it that may – and make it heaps more!! a large heap! What about your family? If your family cares about God, that sometimes makes it harder for you to care about God because: If your family cares about God, that sometimes makes it easier for you to care about God because: If your family doesn’t care about God, that sometimes makes it harder for you to care about God because: If your family doesn’t care about God, that sometimes makes it easier for you to care about God because: Write down excuses that people have for not caring about God: Yep – there are heaps of excuses – but one day when you die, you are going to stand in front of God. And there are going to be no excuses. God will look at you and say – Do you love me? What will your answer be?

First thing – how did you get on with the no bull challenge? Wasn’t here last week Don’t know what it was…DUHH! Forgot about it Tried it and found it hard! Tried it and found it easy! Good on you if you tried it!! Let’s catch up – in the last few weeks we have asked: Do ewe matter? And we gave it the big Then we asked: Do udders (pronounced “others”) matter? And again we gave it the big But you see in this world there is a 3rd part that matters – it’s a triangle of: GOD WOW! ME OTHERS You probably know that you matter, we are all learning that others matter – but at the top of the triangle – does God matter?? Good question – I’m glad you asked it! If you are playing rugby with you and your mates, lets look at what is important: You Your mates The ball See, the first two are obvious – to get into the game you need yourself and some others. Yet something that is important and vital even the ball!! Sure, you could try and play without the ball, but it wouldn’t be the same! Sure, you could try and play with some other type of thing instead of a ball, but it just wouldn’t be the same! We want to look at these things as we continue our investigation – does God matter?? Does a rugby ball matter? Does God matter? A rugby ball matters if: It is the only truly recognised thing to play rugby with It is the best thing to play rugby with (try kicking a conversion with a cricket ball!) It is the most fun thing to play rugby with Same goes for God. He does matter if: He is the one who created the universe and you. He is the only way to get to heaven He is the best one to show you how to live the best life here on earth So he matters. The big question then comes – does he matter to you? Not much Not as much as he should HEAPS! If you answered NOT MUCH – that’s up to you!! Playing a game of rugby without a ball would be dumb. Jumping out of a plane with no parachute isn’t too bright either. Life without God in it? It would be like deleting all your files on your computer – you would still have a computer, it just wouldn’t be as good any more! Life without God isn’t so complete – you are a 2 sided triangle – incomplete!! If you answered NOT AS MUCH AS HE SHOULD, a good question is: How important should God be to us? ICHI BAN!! For all you who know Japanese, that means “Number 1”. God wants to be the most important thing in our life!! He wants to be the number one thing that matters in our life! Write down and discuss why you think God wants to be Ichi Ban in your life: