10-Through the Roof - Lesson 10

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God displays His greatness by giving us Jesus. Jesus, the very Son o God, has Gods

ull ability to heal. He also has Gods ull ability to orgive sins. Our bodies, wracked

by sin, are decaying. We need healing, but healing is temporal. What we ultimately

need is healing rom sin, orgiveness. This took place on the cross when Jesus

conquered sin and death. We can now rightly worship and obey Him as Lord.

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Dear Sunday School Teacher,

Your ministry as a teacher or our Lord has eternal value! When we view our ministry in light o

eternity, we see its importance and the privilege that God has entrusted to us. In Psalm 78, the

Bible also reminds us o this great calling: One generation commending the Gospel to the next.

Treasuring Christ Curriculum:The ministry resource that you hold in your hand is produced

and shaped by the local churchThe Bride o Christ. We have three primary strategies thatguide us. First, we desire to produce a Gospel-centered curriculum that allows every child, babies to

high school students, to study the same Scripture passage each week. Second, we seek to equip

parents to thrive in their God-given role as their childs primary discipler. We want this resource,

thereore, to connect the church and the home by providing the Connecting Church and Home

resource within the curriculum. Third, we want to respond to the

desperate need or curriculum resources around the world. We

desire to bless the nations with a tool that will help them reach

the world with the Gospel o Christ.

Quarter One: God on Display

Every relationship begins with an introduction. God introducing Himsel to us is the heartbeat o

this study.

God on Display is a major theme that runs throughout all o Scripture. Gods desire to have com-

munion with those He created is seen rom cover to cover o the Bible. In the rst ew pages, we see

God communing in the Garden o Eden with Adam and Eve. The theme o communion continues

to be seen through the role o the Old Testament tabernacle and temple. In the New Testament,

God became incarnate in Jesus, God with us. Ater Jesus, the Father gives the Holy Spirit to believers

and institutes the Church. Fellowship in the Church breeds community, both with God and othersmade in His likeness. As believers, we are guaranteed that we will spend eternity in communion

with God, dwelling in His presence.

God is on display: everywhere; in the past, present and uture; and in our lives as believers. Let us

live continually to display Gods greatness and love.


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OVERVIEW 4FOR YOUR EDIFICATION 5-12

EARLY CHILDHOOD 13-17

ELEMENTARY 18-21

PRE-TEEN/MIDDLE SCHOOL 22-25

HIGH SCHOOL 26-31

CONNECTING CHURCH AND HOME 32

RESOURCES 33

Through the Roof

QUARTER THEME | GOD ON DISPLAY Mark 2:1-12

W E E K T E N


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Through the RoofMark 2:1-12

OVERVIEW

EARLY

CHILDHOOD

ELEMENTARY PRE-TEEN/

MIDDLE SCHOOLHIGH SCHOOL

Treasure Verse Psalm 103:2-3 Psalm 103:2-3 Psalm 103:2-5 Psalm 103:2-5

Treasure Point

God

orgives sins.

Jesus

orgives allo our sins.

Jesus is God

and has thepower to healand orgive sins.

Jesus, as God,

has the powerto orgive our sinsthrough His

nished work onthe cross.

Teaching Activities

Soap balls,Miniature mats,

Acting time(optional),

Blessings mural,Song time

Building houses,Acting time(optional),

Blessings mural,Song time,

Writing letters

4D experience Friendship video

Supplies Needed

Wax paper, soap

fakes (like Ivory),ziplock sandwich

bags, bowls owater, Mat

coloring sheet,crayons, popsiclesticks, index cards,

pencils, glue,butcher paper,marker, tape,

CD and CD player

Building

materials such asgraham crackers

and marshmallows,Legos, Lincoln Logs

or ake bricks;props such as asheet or step-

ladder; butcherpaper; marker;

tape; CD and CDplayer; notebookpaper and pens

Blindolds, props

such as a sheetand stepladder

Laptop

OVERVIEW


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FIRST QUARTER, WEEK TEN | GOD ON DISPLAY 5

FOR YOUR EDIFICATION

Enter the Story

Friends. We all need them in lie. They help us

move our urniture to new homes, share meals

with us and let us borrow clothes or tools or

money. They supply us with that much-needed

random git or the oces White Elephant

Christmas party. They are there when milestone

achievements happen in our lives or when

lie-changing moments occur in the lives o our

amilies. Some riendships last only or a short

amount o time; others last a lietime. Some live

next door and you see them every day; others

you may never see again on this side o heaven.

An unlikely riendship ormed between Jesse

Owens, a black man rom America and Luz

Long, a German. Both were competitors in the

Summer Olympics o 1936. A year prior to the

Olympics, Owens jumped 26 eet, 8 1/4 inches

at a competition (a record that would even-

tually stand or 25 years). But at the Olympics

in 1936, Owens noticed a tall, blue-eyed, blond

German taking practice jumps in the 26-oot

range. Owens naturally elt nervous because

he was acutely aware o the Nazis desire to

prove Indo-European superiority, especially

over blacks. Yet instead, the tall German walked

over to Owens, introduced himsel as Luz Long,

and said, You should be able to qualiy withyour eyes closed (reerring to two competi-

tions taking place that day at the Olympics).

And or the next ew moments, the black son o

a sharecropper and the Indo-European model

o Nazi manhood chatted.

In the nals, Owens set an Olympic record

and earned the second o our gold medals

he would win. The rst person to congratu-

late him was Luz Longin ull view o a dis-

approving Adol Hitler. Owens never again

saw Long, who was later killed in World War II.

Later he wrote o his riend, You could melt

down all the medals and cups I have, and they

wouldnt be a spot on the 24-carat riendship

I elt or Luz Long.

In this weeks Treasure Story, we read o our

riends who had the persistency to bring

their riend to Christ. It wasnt easy. Their aith

was visible, strong and ended up being

lie-changing or their paralytic riend. We all

need riends who will tell us the truth, go the

extra mile or us and bring us to Jesus. Are you

that type o riend?

He [Jesus] saw Himself as a

doctor who could heal and purify those who

were unclean. Sinners do not dele Him. On the

contrary, He cleanses and transforms sinners.

Thomas Schreiner, New Testament Theology,

pg. 619

Jesus remained ully man andfully God during His incarnation, and He main-

tained all of His divine attributes and did avail

Himself of them upon occasion, such as to

forgive human sin, which God alone can do.

Mark Driscoll, Doctrine, pg. 232





Forgiveness implies deliverancefrom the penalty due to sin. The wrath of God

is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness;

and when men become sensible of the danger to

which they are exposed, deliverance from the

impending wrath becomes an object of intense

solicitude. Hence arises an anxious desire to ob-

tain forgiveness. To persons in this state of mine,

the doctrine that there is forgiveness with God,

is most welcome. John Dagg, A Manual of

Theology, pg. 262

The message o the Gospel isthis: God can forgive you, and He is willing to do

so. Sinclair Ferguson, By Grace Alone, pg. 57

Story Outline

This story takes place in Capernaum, a city

where Jesus spent much time during His

years o earthly ministry. Jesus had already

started to attract crowds wherever He went as

He preached the Word. In this Treasure Story,

He was preaching in a home in Capernaum,

and it was packed. Many listeners, both people

who were eager to hear and those eager to

condemn, gathered to listen to what He had

to say.

Mark 2:1-2: And when He returned toCapernaum ater some days, it was reported

that He was at home. And many were gathered

together, so that there was no more room, not

even at the door. And He was preaching the

Word to them.

Four men had a riend who was in desperate

need o Jesus healing powers, but they couldnt

even get to the door. So, they ound a way to

climb up on the roo o the house. Details are

not given about how they got up there (while

carrying their riend on a mat), but it could not

have been an easy task. Their tenacious deter-

mination was ueled by desperation and ur-

gency or their riend. Once on top o the roo,

they then had to make an opening, probably

using their bare hands to break through. The

roo was likely fat and made o clay tiles.

Imagine what it would have been like to have

been standing in that house. There you are,

pushed up against people, no air condition-

ing, standing room only. Then all of a sudden,

in the middle of Jesus teaching, dirt and sticks

and mud start falling on your head. What? The

ceiling is caving in? Would you begin to panic?

Be annoyed? Then, if that wasnt enough, these

men begin creating a lot of noise as they came

through the roof (carrying a mat).

Mark 2:3-5: And they came, bringing to Him

a paralytic carried by our men. And when they

could not get near Him because o the crowd,

they removed the roo above Him, and when

they had made an opening, they let down

the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when

Jesus saw their aith, He said to the paralytic,Son, your sins are orgiven.

And when Jesus saw their aith . . . Jesus saw

living, active, mat-carrying aith by these our

riends and their paralytic riend. He gave the





riend this imperative statement, Your sins are

orgiven. Why didnt Jesus tell the paralytic the

statement the man probably wanted to hear:

You are healed? Jesus, being God, knew that

the more crucial need o this man was that his

sins be orgiven. This orgiveness was more

costly to Jesus because it would require dying

on a cross. This orgiveness was also eternal and

not temporal (like the healing alone would be).

It was not uncommon in theancient world for illness to be seen as punish-

ment for sin. Jesus worked within this way of

thinking, knowing well the connections that His

audience would make. Regardless of popular

opinion, however, the sick man, like all of us,

needed forgiveness of sins, even if sin was not

the immediate cause of his paralysis. John and

Kim Walton, The Bible Story Handbook, pg. 280

The scribes were also in the home. Scribes were

a group o Jewish leaders who copied the law

o Moses, interpreted the law, and were experts

in cases where people were accused o break-ing the law(Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary

or Kids, pg. 170). Picture them with their arms

olded, scowls on their aces, waiting to catch

Jesus in saying something that was wrong, ac-

cording to the law o Moses.

Jesus, without hesitation, has a reply or their

questioning hearts. He gives the scribes,

the paralytic, his riends, and the entire crowd

evidence o His deity by saying to the man,Rise, pick up your bed, and go home.

Mark 2:6-9:Now some o the scribes were sit-

ting there, questioning in their hearts, Why does

this man speak like that? He is blaspheming!

Who can orgive sins but God alone? And

immediately Jesus, perceiving in His spirit that

they thus questioned within themselves, said

to them, Why do you question these things

in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the

paralytic, Your sins are orgiven, or to say, Rise,

take up your bed and walk?

What is the response o the lame man?

Worship. Imagine him hopping up, stretch-

ing his legs because he hadnt used them in

so long, marveling at what had just happened

to him. The man takes his bed in obedience.

Visualize the people watching Jesus speak the

words and the man being healed. Considerthe wonder o those in attendance who had

known the paralytic or years, now witnessing

him standing up and walking. What is their

response? They stand in amazement and

worship. These are appropriate responses to

having an encounter with Jesus.

Mark 2:10-12: But that you may know

that the Son o Man has authority on earth to

orgive sinsHe said to the paralyticI say toyou, rise, pick up your bed, and go home. And

he rose and immediately picked up his bed and

went out beore them all, so that they were all

amazed and gloried God, saying, We never

saw anything like this!

The only hope or sinners isforgiveness. To put it even more forcefully, the

only hope for sinners is that the One whos in

charge of the universe is a God of forgiveness.The bottom line is this: if God is unwilling to for-

give, we are doomed. But Hes willing! The story

that winds its way across the pages of the Bible

is a story of Gods active willingness to forgive.

Paul David Tripp, Whiter Than Snow, pg. 136





In this Treasure Story, Jesus reveals Himsel

as God, with the God-ability to orgive sins.

The Apostle Paul said, For in Him [Christ]

the whole ullness o deity [being God]

dwells bodily (Colossians 2:9). Empha-

sizing this same truth, pastor and author

John Piper noted, Christ is glorious so that

rich or poor, sick or sound, we might be

satised in Him (Seeing and Savoring Jesus

Christ, pg. 27).

Another attribute o God dwelling bodily in Christ is omniscience. This means that Jesus, being

God, knew everything. Jesus displays this in the Treasure Story by going straight to the paralytics

deepest need and in questioning the unspoken thoughts o the scribes. The prophet Jeremiah

said, The heart is deceitul above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the

LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to

the ruit o his deeds (Jeremiah 17:9-10).

This Treasure Story tells o a crippled man who is unable to get up o his mat. All humanity is in need

o healing because we are unable to save ourselves. We are unable to do anything on our own to

bring us health, lie or heaven. Scripture tells us that we are dead in our sin (Ephesians 2:1). We are

this man. We are crippled, unable to do anything or ourselves, in need o a Savior to heal usnot

just physically, but also to heal our relationship with God the Father.

Gospel Truths About God


The centrality and distinctivenessof Jesus is featured in His forgiveness of sins. He heals

the paralytic in order to demonstrate that He possesses

the authority to forgive sinners . . . Jesus pronounce-

ment of forgiveness also points to the cross as the basis

of the forgiveness given. Thomas Schreiner, New

Testament Theology, pgs. 188-189

Gospel Truths About Man

The Christian lives through orgiveness. This is what justifcationby faith is all about. We could have no life or hope with God at all, had Gods Son not borne the penalty

of our sins so that we might go free. J. I. Packer, Praying the Lords Prayer, pg. 77

We can ace that we are sinners and rest because we know thatGod really does exist and that He is a God of mercy, steadfast love, abundant mercy. Because He is, there

is hopehope of forgiveness and new beginnings. Yes, we really can fully acknowledge our sin and failure

and yet be unafraid. Paul David Tripp, Whiter Than Snow, pg. 54




The ocus o this lesson is not that Jesus heals diseased, broken and decaying bodies. It is not on the

importance o riends. The heart o this lesson is that Jesus, who is the Son o God, has the power to

orgive sins. He knew the only way the paralytics sins would be orgiven, and ours too, was through

His broken body on the cross and His powerul resurrection rom the tomb.

Gospel Truths About Redemption


These miracles (such as healing the paralytic) were intended todisplay our Saviors power and authority as that man who is Jehovahs Servant, that man who is God,

to show that He has power and authority by virtue of who He is and by virtue of the sacrice He made

in eternity and was about to make at Calvary, to forgive sins. Don Fortner, Discovering Christ in

All the Scriptures, pg. 360

That is why Christ suered and died. In Him we have redemptionthrough His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses (Ephesians 1:7). Forgiveness costs us nothing.

All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. Thats why we call it grace. But

it cost Jesus His life. That is why we call it just. Oh, how precious is the news that God does not

hold our sins against us! And how beautiful is Christ, whose blood made it right for God to do this.

John Piper, Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die, pg. 37

When you were stuck in your old sin-dead lie, you wereincapable of responding to God. God brought you alive. All sins forgiven. As far as sunrise is from

sunset, God has separated us from our sins. Eugene Peterson, Not a Day Goes by Without His

Unfolding Grace, Day 12


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For Your Edication (continued)

Leviticus 24:10-23

Numbers 15:30-31

Psalm 51:1-4

Psalm 103:2-5

Isaiah 33:24

Jeremiah 17:9-10

Luke 5:17-26

Ephesians 1:7

1 John 1:8-10

Whiter Than Snow by Paul David Tripp

Leviticus 24:10-23: Now an Israelite womans

son, whose ather was an Egyptian, went out

among the people o Israel. And the Israel-

ite womans son and a man o Israel ought

in the camp, and the Israelite womans son

blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they

brought him to Moses. His mothers name was

Shelomith, the daughter o Dibri, o the tribe o

Dan. And they put him in custody, till the will o

the LORD should be clear to them.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Bring

out o the camp the one who cursed, and let all

who heard him lay their hands on his head, and

let all the congregation stone him. And speak

to the people o Israel, saying, Whoever curses

his God shall bear his sin. Whoever blasphemes

the name o the LORD shall surely be put todeath. All the congregation shall stone him.

The sojourner as well as the native, when he

blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

Whoever takes a human lie shall surely be

put to death. Whoever takes an animals lie

shall make it good, lie or lie. I anyone injures

his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done tohim, racture or racture, eye or eye, tooth or

tooth; whatever injury he has given a person

shall be given to him. Whoever kills an animal

shall make it good, and whoever kills a person

shall be put to death. You shall have the same

rule or the sojourner and or the native, or I

am the LORD your God. So Moses spoke to the

people o Israel, and they brought out o the

camp the one who had cursed and stoned him

with stones. Thus the people o Israel did as theLORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 15:30-31: But the person who

does anything with a high hand, whether he is

native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that

person shall be cut o rom among his people.

Because he has despised the Word o the LORD

and has broken His commandment, that person

shall be utterly cut o; his iniquity shall be

on him.

Psalm 51:1-4: Have mercy on me, O God,

according to your steadast love; according

to your abundant mercy blot out my transgres-

sions. Wash me thoroughly rom my iniquity,

and cleanse me rom my sin! For I know my

transgressions, and my sin is ever beore me.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done

what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justied in your words and blameless in your

judgment.

Psalm 103:2-5: Bless the LORD, O my soul,

and orget not all His benets, who orgives all

your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who





redeems your lie rom the pit, who crowns you

with steadast love and mercy, who satises

you with good so that your youth is renewed

like the eagles.

Isaiah 33:24: And no inhabitant will say,

I am sick; the people who dwell there will be

orgiven their iniquity.

Jeremiah 17:9-10:The heart is deceitulabove all things, and desperately sick; who can

understand it? I the LORD search the heart and

test the mind, to give every man according to

his ways, according to the ruit o his deeds.

Luke 5:17-26: On one o those days, as He

was teaching, Pharisees and teachers o the

law were sitting there, who had come rom

every village o Galilee and Judea and rom

Jerusalem. And the power o the Lord was

with Him to heal. And behold, some men were

bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed,

and they were seeking to bring him in and

lay him beore Jesus, but nding no way to

bring him in, because o the crowd, they went

up on the roo and let him down with his bed

through the tiles into the midst beore Jesus.

And when He saw their aith, He said, Man,

your sins are orgiven you. And the scribes

and the Pharisees began to question, saying,

Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who

can orgive sins but God alone? When Jesus

perceived their thoughts, He answered them,

Why do you question in your hearts? Which

is easier, to say, Your sins are orgiven you, or

to say, Rise and walk? But that you may know

that the Son o Man has authority on earth to

orgive sinsHe said to the man who wasparalyzedI say to you, rise, pick up your bed

and go home. And immediately he rose up

beore them and picked up what he had been

lying on and went home, gloriying God. And

amazement seized them all, and they gloried

God and were lled with awe, saying, We have

seen extraordinary things today.

Ephesians 1:7: In Him we have redemption

through His blood, the orgiveness o our tres-

passes, according to the riches o His grace.

1 John 1:8-10: I we say we have no sin, we

deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. I

we coness our sins, He is aithul and just to

orgive us our sins and to cleanse us rom all

unrighteousness. I we say we have not sinned,

we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.




God displays His greatness by giving us Jesus. Jesus, the very

Son o God, has Gods ull ability to heal. He also has Gods

ull ability to orgive sins. Our bodies, wracked by sin, are

decaying. We need healing, but healing is only temporal.

What we ultimately need is healing rom sin, orgiveness.

This took place on the cross when Jesus conquered sin and

death. We can now rightly worship and obey Him as Lord.


My Mission As Teacher:

In the Treasure Story, these men had great faith in bringing their paralytic friend to see the only One

who could heal him. Jesus healed because o their great aith. In what areas does your aith need

strengthening? Ask God to strengthen them; He will.

How can we bring our friends to Christ this week? We cant lower a friend through the roof of a

house in Capernaum, but we can bring our riends to Christ in prayer or by sharing the Gospel with

them. Do any o your riends need Jesus?

Prayer Points:

Pray that God would give you specic encounters this week with friends who need Jesus: either for

salvation, or healing, or hope or or strength.

Pray that your students would understand with great clarity that their deepest need is salvation byorgiveness through Christ alone. Everything else in lie is secondary.




EARLY CHILDHOOD

Early Childhood

engageEarly Arrival Activity: (15 minutes or until you are ready to begin)

Create soap balls. Give each child a piece o wax paper. Pour some soap fakes on each piece. Have

bowls o water set up in the middle o the table and instruct the children to sprinkle water (using

their ngers) over the soap fakes. They can then orm balls o soap using their hands. Give each child

a plastic bag and ask them to put their soap balls in their bag. Explain to the children that soap can

get our bodies clean and help us smell good. But only God can clean the inside o us rom the bad

things we do (sin).

Supplies Needed: Wax paper, soap fakes (like Ivory), ziplock sandwich bags,

bowls o water

Treasure Story: Mark 2:1-12

Treasure Verse: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgivesall your iniquity, who heals all your diseases (Psalm 103:2-3).

Treasure Point: God orgives sins.

Jesus looked at the sick man, and He saw something thatnobody else could see. He saw that the mans heart was sad because of sin. Marian

Schoolland, Leading Little Ones to God, pg. 77




discover

Mat Activity: (15 minutes)

Create mats to go along with the story.

Younger Children Option: Pass out the Mat coloring sheet (see resources) and have the children

color the sheet beore you begin telling todays Treasure Story.

Supplies Needed: Mat coloring sheet, crayons

Older Children Option: Have the children build their own miniature mats. Give each child an

index card and ask them to write WALK on it. Then instruct them to glue our popsicle sticks

together so that they orm a rectangle. Glue the index card on top o the rectangle to create

their own mat.

Supplies Needed: Four popsicle sticks per child, one index card (3 X 5 size),

pencils, glue

Bible Story Time: (15 minutes)

Teacher Note: Ask the children to sit in the designated reading/Bible story area. Tell them that

this is Gods Word, the Bible, the way He speaks to us. It is true, and we need to listen to God.

Be sure they see you reading Mark 2:1-12 out o the Bible and not out o the curriculum guide.

Have the older children ollow along in their own Bibles.

This outline will help you as you teach the story. Read the designated Bible passages as they

are included. When teaching older children, consider asking them to act out the scenes rom

this passage.

EARLY CHILDHOOD




In a city called Capernaum, Jesus was preaching the Word, and people were gathered around

closely to listen to Him. To act out the story, ask one young boy to stand at the ront o the class,

holding a Bible, pretending to be Jesus. Instruct him to say things about God. Mimic the settingby asking all the children to sit closely together and close to you. Ask them to imagine the people

tightly gathered around Jesus as He taught.

Mark 2:1-2: And when He returned to Capernaum ater some days, it was reported that He was

at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the

door. And He was preaching the Word to them.

So many people had come to hear Jesus, but there was no more room. They were even stand-

ing outside the door, wanting to hear His every word. The people had heard about what Jesus was

doing: healing the sick and preaching the Gospel. Now they wanted to hear or themselves what He

had to say.

Four friends arrived with their friend who couldnt walk. Ask the children these questions: Have

you ever had a broken oot or leg that made it dicult to walk? Have you ever been sick (with a cold,

fu, etc.)? This man couldnt walk. He needed someone to make him better.

Mark 2:3-4: And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic carried by our men. And when they

could not get near Him because o the crowd, they removed the roo above Him, and when they

had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

These friends came in through the roof. Instruct our children to stand up on chairs as thoughthey were trying to climb to the top o a house. (I you are working with small children, have the

children line up in a single line, and one at a time take turns climbing on the chair while a helper

holds their hand.)

Jesus told the man his sins were forgiven: And when Jesus saw their aith, He said to the para-

lytic, Son, your sins are orgiven (Mark 2:5). But the scribes (men who ollowed the Law o Moses)

did not like that very much because they didnt know Jesus was the Son o God. These men were not

very nice to Jesus, and they were trying to catch Him in a lie.

Mark 2:6-7:Now some o the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, Why doesthis man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can orgive sins but God alone?

Jesus knew their hearts just like He knows all of our hearts.The Bible says our hearts are bad

(Jeremiah 17:9). What do you think Jesus would see in your heart?

Mark 2:8: And immediately Jesus, perceiving in His spirit that they thus questioned within

themselves, said to them, Why do you question these things in your hearts?

EARLY CHILDHOOD


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He then told the man who couldnt walk to get up and walk: Which is easier, to say to the

paralytic, Your sins are orgiven, or to say, Rise, take up your bed and walk? (Mark 2:9) The man

immediately started walking around, praising God. Instruct the students to stand up and dance,

jump, holler and to praise God! This is what the man who couldnt walk did when Jesus told him

to get up and walk. This is why Jesus healed the man: so people would praise Him and give God

the glory.

Mark 2:10-12: But that you may know that the Son o Man has authority on earth to orgive

sinsHe said to the paralyticI say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home. And he rose and

immediately picked up his bed and went out beore them all, so that they were all amazed and

gloried God, saying, We never saw anything like this!

Treasure Verse Learning Activity: (5 minutes)

Make a blessings mural. Hang up a large piece o butcher paper on the wall in the classroom. Write

the Treasure Verse at the top o the page. Ask the children to name everything that God has blessed

them with. Write what the children say on the piece o paper. This will be a visual reminder in coming

weeks (as you keep it displayed in the classroom) o the blessings God gives us.

Supplies Needed: Butcher paper, marker, tape or other adhesive to hang up the paper

Song Time: (10 minutes)

Love, Love, Love is this quarters theme song. This song can be ound on the Treasuring Christ

website: www.treasuringchristonline.org.

Supplies Needed: CD player, CD

Playground Time: (15 minutes)

Center play or ree play is useul here i there is no playground or i the weather is not conducive toplaying outside.

Snack Time: (10 minutes)

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treasure

Treasure Point:God orgives sin.

My Mission: (10 minutes)

Use this time to review all the ways God has shown His power in previous lessons. Remind the

children o how God protected Daniel rom the lions (Lesson Nine), sent down re rom heaven

(Lesson Eight), made the wall o Jericho all (Lesson Seven), etc.

Prayer Time: (5 minutes)

Pray that your children would even now (at their young age) know their need or a Savior. Pray

also that they would have compassion or the hurt, sick, and those who need Jesus.


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Elementary

engageEarly Arrival Activity: (10-15 minutes or until all the children arrive)

Instruct the children to build houses. Break up the children into teams and have dierent building

materials available or them. Materials might include graham crackers and marshmallows, Legos,

Lincoln Logs, ake bricks, etc. Be creative. These houses can be used as an illustration later in the

telling o the Treasure Story.

Supplies Needed: Building materials such as graham crackers and marshmallows,

Legos, Lincoln Logs or ake bricks

Introduction: (10 minutes)

Use this time to have a contest or the houses the children built. Whose house is the prettiest? Whose

house is the sturdiest? Who built a house and orgot to include a door? This last question is a great

segue into the Treasure Story.

discoverBible Story Time: (15 minutes)

Teacher Note: Have the children sit in the designated reading/Bible story area. Tell them this is Gods

Word, the Bible, the way He speaks to us. It is true, and we need to listen to God. Be sure they see you

reading Mark 2:1-12 out o the Bible and not out o the curriculum guide. Have the older children

ollow along in their own Bibles.

ELEMENTARY


Treasure Verse: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgivesall your iniquity, who heals all your diseases (Psalm 103:2-3).

Treasure Point: Jesus orgives all o our sins.


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The ollowing outline will help you teach the story to the children. Read the designated Bible

passages as they are included. For the older children, ask them to act out the scenes in this pas-

sage. Props would also be useul when telling this story, such as a stepladder, planks o wood, anold sheet, etc.

Supplies Needed: Sheet, stepladder, planks o wood

Jesus was preaching the Word of God, and people were gathered closely around to listen

to Him. To act out the story, ask one young boy to stand at the ront o the class, holding a

Bible, pretending to be Jesus. Encourage the child to have his Bible open to the Treasure Story

passage. Mimic the setting by asking all the children to sit closely together and close to you as

you share the story. Ask them to imagine the people gathered around Jesus as He taught in a

tight space inside someones home.

Mark 2:1-2: And when He returned to Capernaum ater some days, it was reported that He

was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even

at the door. And He was preaching the Word to them.

So many people had come to hear Jesus, but there was no more room. They were even

standing outside the door, wanting to hear His every word. The people had heard about what

Jesus was doing: healing the sick and preaching the Gospel. Now they wanted to hear or them-

selves what He had to say.

Four friends arrived with their friend who couldnt walk. Ask the children these questions:

Have you ever had a broken oot or leg that made it dicult to walk? Have you ever been sick

(with a cold, fu, etc.)? This man couldnt walk. He needed someone to make him better. How

do you think it would be to not be able to walk at all? When talking about these our riends,

also ask the children to talk about their best riends and what they like to do together or un.

Mark 2:3: And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic carried by our men.

These friends came in through the roof. Have our o the children stand up on chairs as though

they were trying to climb to the top o a house. Have they ever helped their dad or a riend by

hammering or building something? What did they build? Did they use tools? These men prob-ably had no tools to get through the roo o this house, yet they kept digging until they made a

hole in the roo. This roo wasnt easy to get through. It was made o clay tiles and branches, and

it was thick.

Mark 2:4: And when they could not get near Him because o the crowd, they removed the

roo above Him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the

paralytic lay.

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Jesus told the man his sins were forgiven:And when Jesus saw their aith, He said to the para-

lytic, Son, your sins are orgiven (Mark 2:5). But the scribes did not like that very much because they

didnt know Jesus was the Son o God. These men were not very nice to Jesus, and they were tryingto catch Him in a lie. They knew the Law o Moses (rom the Old Testament), but what they didnt

know was that Jesus was the Son o God. When Jesus said to the man that his sins were orgiven,

they thought He was blaspheming (telling lies against God). Only God can orgive sins, and they

thought Jesus wasnt God. Jesus IS God!

Mark 2:6-7: Now some o the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, Why does

this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can orgive sins but God alone?

Jesus knew their hearts, just as He knows all of our hearts. He knew the hearts o the scribes and

He knew the aith o the our riends who brought the man to see Him. The Bible says our hearts arebad (Jeremiah 17:9). What do you think Jesus would see in your heart?

Mark 2:8-9: And immediately Jesus, perceiving in His spirit that they thus questioned within

themselves, said to them, Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to

say to the paralytic, Your sins are orgiven, or to say, Rise, take up your bed and walk?

He then told the man who couldnt walk to get up and walk. The man immediately started

walking around, praising God. Instruct the students to stand up and dance, jump, holler and to praise

God! This is what the man who couldnt walk did when Jesus told him to get up and walk. This is

why Jesus healed the man: so people would praise Him and gloriy God.





Treasure Verse Learning Activity: (5 minutes)

Hang up a large piece o butcher paper on the wall in the classroom. Write the Treasure Verse on

the top o the page. Ask the children to name everything that God has blessed them with. Create

a blessings mural by having the children take turns writing the ways God has blessed them on the

butcher paper. This will be a visual reminder in coming weeks (as you keep it displayed in the class-

room) o the blessings God gives us.

Supplies Needed: Butcher paper, marker, tape or other adhesive to hang up the paper

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Playground Time/Center Activities/Free Play: (15 minutes)

Song Time: (10 minutes)

Love, Love, Love is this quarters theme song. This song can be ound on the Treasuring Christwebsite: www.treasuringchristonline.org.

Supplies Needed: CD player, CD

Closing Activity: (5 minutes)

Have each child write a letter to someone they know who is sick or absent rom class today.

Supplies Needed: Notebook paper, pens

treasure

Treasure Point:Jesus orgives all o our sins.

My Mission: (10 minutes) Allow time or sharing.

Has God ever healed you or someone you know o something? Have the children talk about these

happenings. Praise God or them ater each story.


Pray over the people who will be receiving the letters rom the students.


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Pre-Teen/Middle School

engage

Group Fellowship Time: (10 minutes)

discover

Bible Story: (30 minutes)

Challenge your students to have a 4D experience with todays Treasure Story. Have one person be

the narrator. This student will read the Treasure Story ound in Mark 2:1-12 as this story is acted out

by the rest o the class. Blindold all the people in this story except or the person who plays Jesus.

4 students will be the friends

1 student will be Jesus

1 student will be the man on the mat

2 students will be the scribes The rest will be the crowd listening to Jesus.

For the mat, either use a sheet or a lightweight chair.

To enact getting to the roof, use a small stepladder or stepstool that the four friends will

have to go over blindolded.


Treasure Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgives allyour iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your lie rom the pit, who crowns youwith steadast love and mercy, who satises you with good so that your youth is renewed likethe eagles (Psalm 103:2-5).

Treasure Point: Jesus is God and has the power to heal and orgive sins.



Grant that whether rich or poor, sick orsound, we might be transformed by Him and become an

echo of His excellence in the world. John Piper, Seeing

and Savoring Jesus Christ, pg. 32

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Have the students change parts and re-enact the story. As they act out dierent parts, the stu-

dents will begin to have dierent viewpoints o the story. By being blindolded, they will be orced

to use their imaginations as they picture the story taking place. This 4D experience will help the

students use all their senses and gain a more complete understanding o the Bible story.

Supplies Needed: Blindolds, props such as a sheet and stepladder

Teacher Note: The ollowing outline will assist you as you tell this weeks Treasure Story. Have the

students read the Scriptures listed with each part o the story.

Todays Treasure Story takes place in Capernaum, a city where Jesus spent a lot o time while Hewas on earth. Jesus had already started to attract crowds wherever He went as He preached the

Word. Many listeners, both people who were eager to hear and those eager to condemn, gathered

to listen to Him preach.

The friends you have in your life are important.

Four men had a riend who desperately needed Jesus, but they couldnt even get to the door.

So, they ound a way to climb up on the roo o the house. Details are not given about how they

got up there (while carrying their riend on a mat), but it could not have been an easy task. Their

tenacious determination was ueled by desperation and urgency or their riend. They pickedtheir way through the roo, ignoring the thickness o it, probably using their bare hands. This roo

would have been made up o thick, clay tiles.

Yet think what it would have been like to have been standing in that house. There you are, pushed

up against people, no air conditioning, standing room only. Then all o a sudden, in the middle o

Jesus teaching, dirt and sticks and mud start alling on your head. What? The ceiling is caving in?

Would you have started to panic? Been annoyed? Then, i that wasnt enough, these men begin

creating a lot o noise as they came through the roo (carrying a mat). Who were they to try to

sneak in?

Think back to the 4D experience we just did in class. How did certain roles make you eel?

Mark 2:3-4: And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic carried by our men. And when they

could not get near Him because o the crowd, they removed the roo above Him, and when they

had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.



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Jesus is more important than your friends.

Friends cant save you. Each o us has to make a commitment to Christ in aith on our own. Only

Jesus has the power to heal and orgive sins. There is no one else who can save you and give you

eternal lie other than Jesus.

Mark 2:5: And when Jesus saw their aith, He said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are orgiven.

And when Jesus saw their aith . . . Jesus saw living, active, mat-carrying aith by these our

riends and their paralytic riend. He gave the riend this imperative statement, Your sins are or-

given. Why didnt Jesus tell the paralytic the statement the man probably wanted to hear, You

are healed? Jesus, being God, knew that the more crucial need o this man was that his sins be

orgiven. This orgiveness was more costly to Jesus because it would require dying on a cross. This

orgiveness was also eternal and not temporal (like the healing alone would be).

Jesus deserves our worship.

What is the response o the lame man? Worship. Imagine him hopping up, stretching his legs be-

cause he hadnt used them in so long, marveling at what had just happened to him. The man takes

his bed in obedience. Visualize the people watching Jesus speak the words and the man being

healed. Consider the wonder o those in attendance who had known the paralytic or years, now

witnessing him standing up and walking. What is their response? They stand in amazement and

worship. These are right responses to seeing Jesus.

How would your lie look dierently i it was lived in total worship to Jesus?







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treasure

Treasure Point:Jesus is God and has the power to heal and orgive sins.

My Mission:(10 minutes) Allow time or group discussion.

Faith. Where is your faith? Have you put your faith in Christ for salvation? Or have you just

known Jesus a little while and your aith needs to be strengthened? Is your aith really

strong? I so, how can you encourage others in their aith?

Friends. Do you have friends who need to be brought to Jesus like the paralytic? Do you

have a personal story o your aith that you can use to share with others the hope and

orgiveness that Jesus brings?

Prayer Time: (5-10 minutes)

Break up into pairs and pray or these riends (by name) who are in need o Jesus.


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High School

engage

Introduction: (20 minutes)

Watch this our-minute skit on riendship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eM5KOIvtbk

What are the needs you see in your riends lives?

How do you respond to those needs?

Supplies Needed: Laptop

Teacher Note: The ollowing story rom a musician, David Meece, will illustrate the point in the Trea-

sure Story that Jesus knows what is in our hearts. This story about Meeces experience can lose its

impact i this point does not connect well with the students. Jesus knows all that is in our hearts and

cannot be ooled or misled. For an example o Meeces music, show the students this video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRIEcammskA

HIGH SCHOOL


Treasure Verse: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgives allyour iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your lie rom the pit, who crownsyou with steadast love and mercy, who satises you with good so that your youth isrenewed like the eagles (Psalm 103:2-5).

Treasure Point: Jesus, as God, has the power to orgive our sins through His nished workon the cross.

That we might be delivered rom the penalty due to oursins, it was necessary that Christ should bear it for us. Hence it is true, that without the

shedding of blood, there is no remission; and hence, in the teachings of Scripture, the

forgiveness of sins stands connected with redemption by the blood of Christ. John

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One o those rules my mother had to do with the kind o music youd listen to. My mother didnt want

anything but classical music in the house. She didnt want any o this rock stu with that beat . . . not

gonna have that in my house, not gonna have any o that county/western garbage either. For yearsI thought that was the name o the music: country/western garbage, you know. A guy said he liked

country/western music [and] I said, Oh, you like garbage. And I got my jaw handed to me. We didnt

even have any religious records in the house, or Gospel music, unless it was written by Bach, Brahms

or Beethoven.

Course you could always tell when my mother let the house because she had a bad mufer.

And were not just talking your average, everyday bad mufer either. Were talking a bad mufer. I

mean walls would shake, buildings would collapse, [and] mothers would take [their] children o the

streets.

You see, Id be in there practicing my Mozart . . . and Id hear my mother driving o . . . [and then start to

play music rom] Sgt. Pepper [an album o the Beatles]. And my brotherd come in and say, Is mama

gone? I said, I wouldnt be singing this i she was here. So we sat down and wed sing together, til

wed hear her coming back, you know. . . Shed always say, What a nice young man, look at my broth-

er and say, Why cant you be more like your little brother? And hed always say, I am.

And you see, I tell you that story to make a point: unortunately there are a lot o people that try to

run their Christianity the way my brother and Id try to run our music. Oh, you know what Im talkingabout, you know the people: they act one way when theyre around one group o people, and then

they get around another group o people and they become someone else. They talk dierently, they

act dierently; its almost like weve got a world ull o schizophrenic Christians, running around loose

all over the place.

Well, o course theres only one big problem with all that: you see, God does not have a bad mufer.

And whether youre willing to admit it or not, Hes with you every moment o every day, seeing the

good things and the bad things. And while you may be ooling your riends or a while, your parents

or a while, your teachers, your brother, your sister, your husband, your wie, maybe even ooling your-sel, youre not ooling God. There is no such thing as a part-time Christian. You either are one or you

arent one, and theres nothing in the middle. And I didnt really understand that mysel until I was hal-

way through school, halway through college. Thought Id been a Christian all my lie, and I came ace

to ace with the realization that Christianity involved a relationship: something you do moment to

moment, day to day. Its not something you do once a week and then orget about, you know? When

I realized that it made all the dierence in the world in my lie.

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discoverBible Story: (30 minutes)

Teacher Note: Since many o your students are probably amiliar with the story o the para-

lytic man, the Treasure Story or today, have them tell you the story. Use the outline o the

story in the For Your Edication section and Mark 2:1-12 in your Bible to ollow along as the

students share.

Talk with the students about how they may know the story, but do they understand why

orgiveness is so important? Wouldnt it have been equally as important and wonderul and

miraculous i Jesus had just instructed the man to get up and walk? Thats why the man was

coming to Him anyway, to be healed. He wanted to walk again. But Jesus knew the mans

deeper need.

Why is orgiveness important? How should living in orgiveness and the work o Christ on the

cross change our lives?

Forgiveness starts with a right view of God. God is holy.

1 Peter 1:14-16: As obedient children, do not be conormed to the passions o your

ormer ignorance, but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

since it is written, You shall be holy, or I am holy.

Matthew 5:48: You thereore must be perect, as your heavenly Father is perect.

Where there is no law, no just standard, no legitimate

expectation, no normative way of relating to God and man, there can be noforgiveness. John Piper, sermon preached on November 25, 1990

Forgive: to reuse to punish someone who has hurtyou or sinned against you . . . Gods forgiveness of sin comes at a great cost

Jesus death on the cross. Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary for Kids, pg. 62

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Forgiveness starts with a right view of man. Man is sinul and our hearts are evil. There is nothing

good in us. We all short o the perection that God calls us to have. We are dead in our sin, and we

cannot do anything on our own that is good or that can save us. We need Jesus.

Isaiah 64:6-7: We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like

a polluted garment. We all ade like a lea, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. There is

no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himsel to take hold o you; or you have hidden

your ace rom us, and have made us melt in the hand o our iniquities.

Jeremiah 17:9-10:The heart is deceitul above all things, and desperately sick; who can

understand it? I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his

ways, according to the ruit o his deeds.

Romans 3:21-23: But now the righteousness o God has been maniested apart rom the law,although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to itthe righteousness o God through aith

in Jesus Christ or all who believe. For there is no distinction: or all have sinned and all short o

the glory o God.

Ephesians 2:1-3: And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, ol-

lowing the course o this world, ollowing the prince o the power o the air, the spirit that is now

at work in the sons o disobedienceamong whom we all once lived in the passions o our fesh,

carrying out the desires o the body and the mind, and were by nature children o wrath, like the

rest o mankind.

Our only hope and answer is the work of Christ on the cross.

Ephesians 2:4-7: But God, being rich in mercy, because o the great love with which He loved

us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christby grace you

have been savedand raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in

Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches o His grace in

kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:6-11: For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died or the ungodly. For

one will scarcely die or a righteous personthough perhaps or a good person one woulddare even to die but God shows His love or us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died

or us. Since, thereore, we have now been justied by His blood, much more shall we be saved

by Him rom the wrath o God. For i while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the

death o his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His lie. More

than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now

received reconciliation.

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Therefore, let us live in the light and truth of that forgiveness and reconciliation. The Gospel

is the basis o orgiveness and reconciliation. It reconciles us to God and makes us agents o

reconciliation. What did the paralytic man do when Jesus told him to get up and walk? His healing

and orgiveness led him to worship Jesus. Our orgiveness should lead to worship o Jesus as well.

Romans 6:1-14: What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By

no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all o us who have

been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried thereore with Him

by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised rom the dead by the glory o the

Father, we too might walk in newness o lie. For i we have been united with Him in a death like

His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old sel was

crucied with Him in order that the body o sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no

longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set ree rom sin. Now i we have diedwith Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. We know that Christ, being raised rom the

dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death He died He died

to sin, once or all, but the lie He lives He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead

to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin thereore reign in your mortal body, to make you

obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments or unrighteousness, but

present yourselves to God as those who have been brought rom death to lie, and your members

to God as instruments or righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not

under law but under grace.

We should not continue to sin. What i that paralytic man had said, No thank you, Jesus, I would

rather stay here on my mat and be a paralyzed man or the rest o my lie? He would never have said

that! Why should we stay in our sickness and death when we have been saved by the blood o Jesus?

We cannot continue in sin because we have died to sin. When Christ was raised rom the dead, we (as

Christians) are raised with Him, and we are no longer enslaved to sin. We are to WALKcontinually,

every day, habituallyin lie in Christ.


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treasure

Treasure Point:Jesus, as God, has the power to orgive our sins through the nishedwork on the cross.

My Mission: (15 minutes)

How do you live your life in such a way that minimizes the glory of God?

In what areas have you not asked for forgiveness? What would happen to your life, your heart

and your actions i you allowed orgiveness to wash over these areas?


Divide into groups o our and ask or prayer or some o your personal answers to the rstquestion (in the My Mission section). Help your students be more accountable with ollowing

through on their answers and the application o this lesson.


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God has set eternity into the heart o man (Ecclesiastes 3:11). This eternal truth constantly empha-

sizes, empowers and validates our privilege as parents. Eternity is written into the hearts o our

children as well. This is why Jesus said, Unless you turn and become like children, you will never

enter the kingdom o heaven (Matthew 18:3). Why are parents commanded to talk to their chil-

dren about spiritual truths? The message o the Bible is eternal, and God gave parents a great role

to play in speaking that message into their childrens lives. John Angell James, a pastor rom the

mid-1800s, said, Recollect what a solemn thing it is to be a parent, and what a weighty responsi-

bility attaches to those who have the immortal souls o their children committed to their care!

Delia Halverson, a well-known Christian education specialist, said, To share your aith with your child

is an opportunity that cannot be equaled elsewhere. The home is the most important infuence in

the childs lie. Beore there were churches, Sunday School programs, children ministries and youth

groups, God entrusted parents with the privilege to teach their children (Deuteronomy 6).

connect

This week, your child(ren) will study the eagerness o our men who brought their riend to Christ

(Mark 2:1-12). Their riend was a paralytic, but this was not his greatness need. In Mark 2:5, Jesus metthis mans greatest need. Perhaps this week you can lead your amily in a discussion concerning their

greatest need and how Christ through the Gospel meets this need. Share your testimony with your

amily. Also ask your children this question: How can each o us engage our riends with the Gospel

o Christ?

Treasure Verse: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgives all your

iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your lie rom the pit, who crowns you with stead-

ast love and mercy, who satises you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles

(Psalm 103:2-5).



connecting church and home

CONNECTING CHURCH AND HOME

It is not a single event, but a lietime o interactionthat is based on Gods revelation. We are promised that our teaching will bear

fruit in our childrens lives. We must actively teach our children, and live the

reality, that God denes life. Tedd Tripp, Instructing a Childs Heart, pg. 19


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