The Bible uses a lot of symbols and metaphors from nature to explain spiritual truths. In this outdoor Bible study, you’ll identify some objects along a nature trail and ask the youth to make a list of everything they spot along the trail. These lists will then be used to discuss various scripture passages. It’s great for any season, but especially for summer!

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The Bible uses a lot of symbols
and metaphors from nature to
explain spiritual truths. In this
outdoor Bible study, you’ll identify
some objects along a nature trail
and ask the youth to make a list of
everything they spot along the
trail. These lists will then be used
to discuss various scripture
passages. It’s great for any
season, but especially for
summer!

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What You Need
1. Bibles
2. An outdoor location with some
nature. It can be an actual trail
through a park, wilderness or
natural area or it can be any
path designated path. It could
be a path along a sidewalk, a
bike trail, a biking trail, or even
the area between two trees,
two designated landmarks, or
even flags planted in the
ground. All you need is a
predefine starting location and
a predefined end point.

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What to Do
1. Guide the youth to walk along
the trail route and to carefully
write down everything that
they see of interest.
2. When you reach a predefined
destination or stopping point
along the trail, lay out a blanket
or groundsheet and have the
youth share the things they
discovered along the trail.
3. Ask youth what lessons they
could learn about God from
what they found, aside from the
obvious of God being the
Creator.

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Scriptures
Here are some common items
found along just about any trail
• Animals, birds – Acts 10:9-16
• Ant – Proverbs 6:6, 30:25
• Bees – Deuteronomy 1:44
• Birds – Matthew 6:25-34
• Birds, foxes – Matthew 8:20
• Branch – Psalm 4:2; Isaiah
11:1; John 15
• Bush – Exodus 3:2
• Chicks, Hen – Matthew 23:37
• Coin – Luke 15:9
• Deer, water – Psalm 42:1
• Egg, scorpion – Luke 11:12

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• Feathers – Psalm 91:4
• Flower, Grass, Dust – Psalm
103:14-16
• Flowers – Matthew 6:27-29
• Garbage – Philippians 3:8
• Gnat – Matthew 23:44
• Path, seeds, weeds, trees –
Matthew 13:1-23, 24-29,
31-34
• Rock – Psalm 18:2;
Matthew 16:18

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• Rocks – Luke 19:40
• Roots – Job 29:19
• Sand – Matthew 7:24-27
• Sparrows – Luke 12:6
• Stone – Acts 4:11
• Trees, Leaf – Psalm 1
• Trees, stones – Luke 3:9
• Vine – Jonah 4:6-11; John 15
• Wild Flower – James 1:10

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Take it to the Next Level
If any of the objects are
mentioned, you can assign the
person who mentioned it to look
up the scripture verse. You can
also simply share some of the
things you noted along the trail
and reference the read the
scripture verses together.

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Make it Spiritual
• How are these objects used
in the Bible? What do they
mean?
Make it Practical
• Why do you think God uses
objects from nature in the
Bible as symbols and
metaphors for spiritual truths?

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Make it Personal
• Which symbol or object had
the biggest impression on
you? Why?
• What lesson from this nature
walk can you apply to your
spiritual walk this week.

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