Mystery bible Adventures

Many times, you can help campers get a better feel for their own personal faith through games. Games are a good way to understand others, and they can provide a sense of fun and adventure. Here, we’ll go over a couple of mystery bible adventure games, and in turn, they can learn about the bible and other tenets as well. 

Mystery Bag Game 

This is a good one for helping the players better understand church tenets that they can utilize. 

In this, you need a bag for different objects. Opaque bags are good and stiff are best, as they won’t show the objects. You want to choose different objects that one can connect to bible stories or even passages. 

With younger children, always have objects that are a bit more upfront and talk about the direct relations for each of those objects.  You can also include stuff with indirect associations, but keep that geared towards older campers. 

Some examples include: 

• A stone (either David and goliath, the tomb of Jesus, or Jesus on the rock. 

• Coins: parable of the lost coin, paying the imperial tax to Caesar, and the temple tax. 

• Nail: Jesus being nailed onto the cross 

• A bread roll of bun the lord’s prayer, last supper, and Jesus feeding the 5000 

• Seeds such as sunflowers seeds: parable of the Sower or mustard seed. 

• Stars: the magi following the stars, god making the stars, or god’s promise to Abraham 

Obviously with the game, you want to make sure that you have items that are pretty easy to spot the relation to. Don’t get too obtuse with it. 

How to Play this

You play this by either a cooperative experience, or different players against one another. 

Sometimes cooperation works better as this can encourage people to work together to achieve the goals that they have. It also keeps them working together instead of being pitted against each other. 

To do this, you can have every single person sit together in a circle.  From there, you want to set a goal that’s achievable.  The goal could be to recall at least one or two different bible studies, depending on things.  From there, you can have it so that the group is able to recall at least one of these. 

You hand out the mystery bag to the one that’s youngest.  The person holding the bag shouldn’t look inside, but they feel around.  After they pull it out, they are able to guess the object and the reference there.  if they can’t do it, it’s passed to the next person till someone gets it. 

If someone can tell what it is, they get a point, or if you’re working together, you can then move onto the next object. 

You want to continue to play until either everyone’s identified, or a team gets to five or ten. 

This is a good way for many people to understand how to get a feel for different bible stories. 

It can also be infused with a scavenger hunt too, where a person will start to look for different passages that associate with certain bible passages. This is a good way to get every single person thinking and understanding the bible a whole lot more. 

It can be further benefited by having different bible passages that some of the people can read. It can be a great way to fully comprehend the bible in a manner that benefits everyone. 

So yes, putting together a bible mystery game is great. Through this, people can make a huge difference in every way.