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This lesson focuses on Hebrews 11, known as "The roll call of Faith." The goal of this lesson is to introduce the thought of faith as a battle. We cover the issues of: why bad thing happen to good people; that heroes wouldn't be heroes unless they fought a battle; that some battles are fought with weapons and fighting, but battles can also be fought in the mind.
This is a two page Sunday School Lesson plan with leaders guide. You'll have to download some pictures of Spiderman and paste them in yourself. As a pre-lesson activity I showed a few minutes of the Spiderman movie and then let them watch it after the class.
On one nice warm Sunday I took the class outside for class. I said that if Spiderman hadn't had an enemy to fight he would have just been an obnoxious teenager spraying spirder silk on everyone. Then I sprayed them with Silly String.
This lesson is a follow-up to the lesson entitled, “What Happens When You Die?” The goal of this lesson is to help kids develop an understanding of the goal of our faith. A lot of “Christian” teaching these days is primarily focused on making our lives better now. Healing services and the “prosperity gospel" crowd out proper teaching. Kids in the US have it pretty good. They don’t really want to go to heaven and can’t imagine that it can be better than earth. At their age, the world and it’s possibilities is just opening up to them. In Biblical speak, Satan has just begun to parade his exciting wares before their eyes. Fancy cars, great vacations, sex & relationships, making money, parties! Who wants to think about heaven?
This is a one page lesson plan with teachers guide. Other follow up youth group Bible lessons:
God wants a Monopoly on your Life and Spotting Counterfeits
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Sin Nature and Sins, Infant Salvation:
On the first page of this youth group lesson we make a clear differentiation between a humans sin nature and wrong doing (a sin deed). By human standards it seems unjust to condemn a person for something someone did thousands of years ago. However, the Bible is clear that the penalty of Adams sin hangs over everyone..."even over those who did not sin by breaking a command." Romans 5: 12-20
On page two we handle the tough question, "Do all babies go to heaven when they die?" This is another instance where your credibility is on the line. Give the kids the whole Biblical answer and they'll trust you on other subjects too. Give them the rote "Sunday School" answer and they'll just stop listening.
Randy Alcorn handles this question well in his book, Heaven. I have used a quote from it and his guidance in preparing this lesson. A link to Christianbook.com is provided for you to order a copy of this great resource. He has a website called Eternal Perspective Ministry.
It has many great articles including one on this subject: "Do infants go to heaven when they die?" Read Randy Alcorn's article click here
You could teach this as two separate lessons or skip page two if you just don't want to cover it. I understand your reluctance on this one. It's a tough subject but also one the enemy can twist into having people believe that God is unjust and unmerciful. Taking about it helps defuse this possibility.
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Heaven for Kids: Answers your kids will understand based on the best-selling book for adults By Randy Alcorn's Kids are full of questions and when it comes to explaining Heaven, the answers aren't easy to put in their terms. Until now. Based upon the best-selling book for adults, Heaven arms parents with ready answers kids are sure to raise. Covering a variety of topics, you'll even find responses to questions you haven't even thought of! |
