He is risen indeed!
The wonderful thing about Easter Sunday is remembering that we live in the ever-present reality of Christ's resurrection all the time. Our time in Kids Church celebrating the reality of the resurrection was GREAT! Here's what we learned:
Question - How do I know what to believe about God?
Bottom Line - Jesus rose again so that you would know He is God.
Memory Verse - 1 Timothy 4:12
Bible Story - Acts 17:16-34
We were able to continue our journey of faith with Paul. This week we learned that Paul visited a place called Athens, Greece and found that the people that lived there worshiped all kinds of gods. There were statues and temples everywhere! There was even an altar dedicated to an unknown God. Paul was burdened by this and ended up telling the leaders of Athens about this unknown God, the one true God, JESUS! And the main evidence he gave them to prove that Jesus was God was the fact that He died and was raised from the dead!
This is the way we know that Jesus is who He says He is. If He had only died, then He would have been like any other man. But He didn't! Jesus was raised from the dead three days after His death, proving to us that He is alive, that He is God, that He conquered hell and the grave, and that all His words are true! What an awesome God we serve!
Don't let the reality of the resurrection slip by just because we celebrate Easter on one day. We live in this reality every day. We were reminded of that in Kids Church when one of our girls shared with everyone her testimony. She had just gotten saved a few weeks ago and told us that she knew that she needed Jesus in her life because she had done wrong things and knew that she had never asked for forgiveness. She said that she prayed to be saved and when I asked her how she felt after that, she said, "Excited. I felt like new." Our risen King truly does make all things new! I pray you will continue to live in this reality throughout the rest of this week.
Oh, and don't forget to bring BGMC Buddy Boxes filled with change this Sunday, May 1st!
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Good stuff, Kristin. Bella learning about Athens and the way they worshiped so many gods - a different god for EVERYTHING - somehow led us into a conversation about all of the names of the one true God, OUR GOD. I think it has spurred our family on to study all of the meanings of His name(s).
ReplyDeleteThank you for leading and teaching and doing it so well!
That's awesome, Jessi! What an amazing study that will be. I might even stow that away for possible Kids Church or Sunday School lessons for the kids down the road. :) Let me know how it goes!
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