The Road to Damascus

This past Sunday began our JUMP! Spring Series and it was fantastic!

Be on the look-out for an update each week right here on the blog about what we are learning, along with our weekly Question and Bottom Line. Also, we'll be sending home Parent Cue Cards for you to continue the discussion of faith at home with your kids. Here's a quick look at our lesson this past Sunday...

Question - Who is God?
Bottom Line - If you want to know who God is, find out more about Jesus.
Memory Verse - "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young. Set an example for the believers in what you say and in how you live," 1 Timothy 4:12 NIrV

During our lesson, we talked about how faith is believing in something that you can't see and how it's OK to ask questions about things. A lot of people say that it's wrong to ask questions about God and that we just need to believe, and it's true that we need to believe, but it's also OK to ask questions. In fact, the more questions we have about God, the more we'll learn about Him! Each week we'll be asking a question and finding out the answer, so our question this week was "Who is God?" Now, that may seem like an easy question to answer, but the reality is that no one knows everything there is to know about God. So even if you know God right now, there are still things that you can discover about Him! We were introduced to a guy in the Bible named Saul, and Saul thought he knew everything there was to know about God and His rules, but boy, was He wrong! Saul was the typical bad guy. Wanting to kill everybody that didn't agree with his version of faith, until he had a miraculous encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. The encounter left Saul blind and wondering what was going on, but Saul was determined to find out more about this Jesus guy that showed up in a blinding light on the road. So I'm sure that if you asked Saul today who God is, he might say something like our Bottom Line, "If you want to know who God is, find out more about Jesus". That's our goal as we continue looking at this journey of faith we're all on and follow Saul's story as He finds out more about Jesus.

We're looking forward to next week!

Oh, and stay tuned for the final BGMC update! The race between the boys and girls is neck-and-neck! We'll announce the winners this week during Kids Church.