Would You Rather Bible edition questions are a super resource for youth group leaders. After all, you need a steady supply of icebreaker games. This twist on the popular “Would You Rather?” game is a Christian crowd-pleaser. Plus, it might drum up interest in the Bible among students. A win on both accounts!
You can play Would You Rather Bible edition several ways. Find a good description of different versions of the game here. Have students sit in a circle and ask the person on their left a Bible-themed question from below. From the center of the circle, students can draw slips of paper with the would you rather Bible edition questions.
To increase the fun factor, set a time limit for asking and answering. Put the questions in a far corner of the room to upgrade this into a physically taxing game. (Most teens can benefit from releasing energy at youth group!)
Tell students they must choose one of the options. “Both” or “I don’t know” aren’t allowed! And be sure to include everyone!
25 Questions: Would You Rather Church Edition
Would you rather…
- Have the super strength of Samson or the wisdom of Solomon?
- Have to fight the giant Goliath or fight the Philistines?
- Be forced to hide from a boss who’s trying to kill you or have raw sores cover your body?
- Glean crop leftovers from a farmer’s field or make bricks of mud and straw?
- Be trapped in the ark for 377 days caring for animals or lying on your side for 390 days?
- Eat only homemade bread for over a year or eat only vegetables and fruit for the foreseeable future?
- Be forced to marry a monarch and live in a palace your whole life or wander the desert 40 years?
- Deceive your father into giving you a sibling’s blessing or have your father believe you’d been killed by a wild animal?
- Live through a famine or live through the 10 plagues of Egypt?
- Be baptized by John the Baptist or hear Paul speak to a crowd about Jesus?
- Eat a scroll (rough paper with writing) or drink vinegar?
- Hide spies in your house or hide a baby from Pharaoh?
- Carry the ark of the covenant across the Jordan River or carry Jesus’s cross to Golgotha?
- Watch Jesus heal a blind man or watch Jesus walk on water?
- Be in prison more than two years or have a big fish swallow you whole?
- See Leviathan (a sea-serpent demon) or see a dragon?
- Name the animals or build the ark?
- Perform an animal sacrifice or prepare a body for burial?
- Watch Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead or eat with Jesus at the Last Supper?
- Betray Jesus or deny Jesus?
- Carry the 10 Commandments down from a mountain or rebuild the walls surrounding Jerusalem?
- Help rebuild the Temple or help the early church grow?
- Be carried to heaven in a chariot of fire or have God add 15 years to your life?
- Anoint Jesus’s head with oil or wash his feet with your tears?
- Have an angel rescue you from prison or see Jesus’s empty tomb?
