35 More Great Children's Lessons that Bring the Bible to Life - Softcover

Musser, Mark J

9781521947142: 35 More Great Children's Lessons that Bring the Bible to Life

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1521947147 ISBN 13: 9781521947142

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

Part 2 -- With 35 more great lessons that will bring the Bible to life for any child!When it comes to explaining the Bible to children and pre-teens, many parents and even Sunday school teachers are at a loss as to ways that really connect their children or students to God's Word, bringing it to life in interesting and creative ways. Thankfully, this book makes it incredibly easy!Certainly, there are a number of excellent lesson books out there. However, many of those books require supplies that the average person or teacher does not have. Moreover, those lessons often require a couple hours or more to prepare. That is not the case with 35 Great Children's Lessons!Nearly every lesson in this book uses supplies that are readily found in any home or classroom. Moreover, each of these lessons takes about 20-25 minutes to complete, falling within the average elementary-aged child's attention span of 22 minutes.This lesson book is great for parents, Sunday school teachers, Children's Church workers, AWANA or Pioneer Club leaders, and even tweens teachers. Hands-on, visual, and interactive learning is proven to be the most effective way to increase subject retention, so download a copy today and start bringing the Bible to life in a way that will be remembered and applied!Be sure to check out the first volume of 35 Great Lessons!

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From the Author:

As a thanks for being someone who is standing in the gap by teaching the next generation to love and know God, here is a free lesson...
SUPPLIES
Several Legos, Lincoln Logs, or other connective/building toys

READ: 1 Peter 2:4-5

ENGAGE
Ants are tiny little creatures. So tiny, in fact, that it would take over 151,000 of them piled onto your bathroom scale to weigh even just one pound. Obviously, this shows that one ant by itself can't do very much!

But ants are rarely by themselves, are they? They are always with MANY of their buddies. In fact, there was once a group of scientists that discovered a colony of ants taking down a large ten foot alligator! That's pretty impressive!

As Christians, we can be a lot like ants too. Maybe, by ourselves, we are small and can't do very much. But we shouldn't be by ourselves, should we? We should be joined together with others, so that we can take down Satan!

ASK
Who remembers how many ants it takes to weigh one pound?

Ready to do some math? Use the number of ants it takes to weigh one pound, then see how many ants it would take to weigh as much as you. (You will most likely need to help with the math.)

Our Bible verses for today say that each Christian is like a stone in God's Temple. How impressive would a Temple be if it was made out of just one stone?

How many stones do you think it would take to make a Temple really big?

To be a stone in God's temple means you are involved in doing things for His kingdom.What things are you doing to help people know Jesus?

What are some things that you think you could do for Jesus this week?

DO

Tell the children that you are going to build something really cool with Legos (or with whatever connective/building toy you have). Pull out one Lego and place it at the center of the table, then state, "There! Wow! What do you guys think? Cool, right?"
When the class shows that they don't think it is so cool, ask them what is wrong
The class will mostly likely say that you need to have many pieces to make something that is cool
With that, bring out the whole box of Legos and divide them evenly between the kids. Go around and allow each person to add to your first piece.
Keep going until all the pieces are used up. As each child is adding pieces, continue onto the FOLLOW UP

FOLLOW UP
Talk about the fact that one ant sure can't take down a ten-foot alligator, and one Lego, all by itself, doesn't make much. Likewise, Christians by themselves can't do too much either. We need many Christians joined together to do something awesome for Jesus

As the structure you are building gets bigger with each piece added, discuss things that a church can do when many people gather together--hold a VBS that needs many volunteers; have a church service with people ushering, greeting,praying, singing, playing instruments, preaching; gather cans of food for food drives; one person telling people about Jesus vs many people doing so, etc.

Finish by noting that it doesn't matter how old or young you are. Just as you can attach a brand new Lego piece to one that is ten years-old, so any Christian of any age can be part of something great at church!

FINISH UP
~Thank God for the chance to be part of His family and His Temple
~Ask God to use you to do great things for Him

About the Author:

Mark has a passion to communicate God's design for life and the family. He and his wife, Christie, have fostered 28 children and have one teen-aged son of their own.

Mark has a Masters in Christian Education as well as earning more than 100 Continuing Education Credits in the area of children and youth development, family dynamics, conflict-resolution within the family, discipleship in the home, effective discipline, parenting teenagers, dealing with different personalities, etc. He is further trained and certified through the National Center for Fathering (See: fathers.com) to lead various seminars and workshops.

Mark and his family live in the Lehigh Valley of northeast, Pennsylvania. He loves Philadelphia sports teams--Eagles, Phillies, Flyers, and 76ers; so he knows much about pain and heartache. He enjoys playing sports, writing books, hanging with his family, and referring to himself in the third person.

Check out his website at markjmusser.com. You will find all of Mark's other titles as well as some free resources.

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