The Healing of a parylised man (John 5:1-18)
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Mr T Spring - 7th March 2010 pm
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Rev J Brown - 21st February 2010 pm
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You can read a report of our mission week with students from OM Lifehope over the new year at the OM Lifehope website.
Rev J Brown - 31st January 2010 pm
Rev J Brown - 31st January 2010
As you prepare a Bible Lesson for children, your most important job is to teach Truth. But it’s not enough to teach the truths, you need to apply the truths so this edition we think about Applying the Truth
How do I find the Application of the Central Truth?
1. An Application is: What does God want the child to do on the strength if this truth
Before finding the Application you need to know which category the children fall into:
i Are the children all saved? If so, there is no need to continue with preaching the Gospel to these children. The Application will be to show how to live their Christian lives; How to live for God.
ii Are the children all unsaved? Then your Application should show what Christ has done for them, emphasise their need to trust the Lord Jesus as Saviour and to warn them of their danger
iii Are some of the children saved and some unsaved? If you have a mixed class, then obviously you will need two Applications from the Truth - one for the saved and another for the unsaved.
The Application for the unsaved children won’t do the saved children any harm. It reminds them of what God has done for them.
On the other hand, the Application for the saved child will be good for the unsaved. It prepares them for what God expects when they do come to the Lord for Salvation
Consider the children in your class/club, not just as a group, but individually. Which category does each child fall into?
The answer to that question determines the type of application you are looking for.
How do I find the Application?
Please be careful here. This next bit may seem very easy on paper, but when you come to do it for real - for next Sunday’s Lesson - it may become a little harder, but don’t give up
On a separate sheet of paper, Write out the truth you want to teach. Perhaps you are going to teach about Isaiah being caught up into heaven. (Isaiah 6) The obvious truth from that passage is God is Holy… So, write down God is Holy
Write it down - Don’t try to do it in your head - write it down. You’re going to pray and think and by writing down the Truth, you’ve settled it - it’s before your eyes and you won’t forget it as you pray and think.
As you pray and think, ask yourself ... If God is Holy, What does God want the child to do on the strength of this truth? At the end of what you’ve written, write the words, Therefore you should...
When you consider therefore you should... your answer is the Application - What God wants the child to do on the strength of this Truth: God is holy therefore you should be holy too. saved child). God is holy therefore you should confess your sin to him (unsaved child)
Remember, I said this looks easy but it takes a bit of thought and lots of prayer; What does God want the child to do?
For a bit of practice, find the Applications for these truths and who they are for (i the saved or ii the unsaved)
Jesus Christ died for sinners:
God speaks through the Bible:
God cares for you:
God rules over all:
Jesus Christ is coming back:
When do I Apply the Central Truth?
Not right away.
Take your Progression of Events and slot in where the Central Truth naturally appears
As you tell the Bible story you bring the children along with you and when you reach the first time the Truth appears, you simply explain the Truth
Isaiah heard the Angels call out Holy! Holy! Holy is the Lord! And he realised God is Holy. That means God is different from you and me, he is pure and perfect. God never sins - He never does anything that is wrong and everything he does is right.
Don’t drag it out - you may be Teaching a Lesson but the children are listening to a story. So go back to the narrative. When you come to the where the truth appears again, then you apply it
When Isaiah realised how Holy God was he fell down because he realised he was not holy. He realised that God wanted him to be holy too. God wanted him to stop living like all the others who didn’t love God. If you’re a Christian God wants you to be different too, he wants you to stop telling lies and being disobedient. That’s how you can be holy - by being different even though it is hard. God is holy and he wants you to be holy too.
Now go back to the narrative again until the truth comes up and teach it and apply it again
When Isaiah realized God is Holy, he said “I am a man of unclean lips” He realized he had sin in his life. If you’re not a Christian, you need to know that God is Holy and a because God is Holy, your sin puts a barrier between you and God and because of that barrier, you are separated from God. The only way you can come to God is by putting your trust in Lord Jesus Christ. Then you can be holy too.
Then go back to the narrative again and finish the story.
You haven’t just told a Bible Story; you’ve taught a Bible Lesson.
It’s taken us a while to get here, but now that we’re here, I hope you’ve enjoyed the articles. I hope you’ve put some of it into practice. Above all I pray that as you Teach a Bible Lesson children will know the great Truths of Scripture and as you apply that Truth, you will have the reward of seeing children coming to Christ for Salvation.
