We Are Family!

Everybody knows that song, right?

"We are family, I got all my sisters with me, We are family, Get up ev'rybody and sing!"

Apparently the kids know it too, because we started a chorus up in Kids Church when the kids heard the topic for the week was "We Are Family". :) The family we're talking about this week though is God's family. We're all brothers and sisters in Christ and adopted children of the Most High. How privileged are we? It makes me think of the verse in Ephesians, "In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will." I love that verse, because it says that it gives God pleasure for us to be His children.

For the next 4 weeks we'll be talking about being a part of God's family here on this earth, which is the Church. Sunday we talked about how the Church is not a building or any other place we meet, but God's people. Wherever we go, we are the Church representing Christ. His Bride making herself ready for the day her Bridegroom returns!

Our phrase for the week is - "The church is all about God and people."
Our memory verse for the next 4 weeks is - "Consequently, we are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of His household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief Cornerstone." Ephesians 2:19-20


Take some time to chat with your kids during the rest of this week about the importance of being a part of God's family, the Church.