[This is part 2 of our series on 1 Peter - its a little easier this week]
3-5s
Theme: Children of God
learn to love each other as God’s Word teaches them
Intro activities:
- Who’s in my family? – stick on parents, brothers and sisters around a picture of them
Bible Teaching:
[Main point – we are all now brothers and sisters]
Do you remember what we looked at last week? Bring out scroll with pictures on from last
week
Do you remember what this picture was? Point at baby/child
When we trust in Jesus we are made God’s children!
Now that means x is ys brother/sister! Can you turn to the
person next to you and call them your brother/sister?
Link arms and say together: brothers and sisters love each other!
[Main point – brothers and sisters love each other (1v22,
2v1-3)]
Read v22. Peter writes to these Christians to say that they
have to love each other. That means that as brothers and sisters we look out
for and care for each other. So when x is poorly, y could look after them. And
we try not fall out and squabble.
Read 2v1 – what are the sort of things we should stop doing?
When do you do that?
Read 2v2-3 – How do we do that? God helps us in His Word,
the Bible. We need to grow up as children of God, and His Word feeds us to grow
up.
Link arms and say together: brothers and sisters love each other!
[Main point – brothers and sisters must love each other
because they will be together forever! (1v23-25)]
Have some grass and
flowers. How long do these last? Not
very long!
Read 1v23-25. As God’s children, do you know that you will
live with Him forever. Even though we will all die one day, everyone who trusts
Jesus will live forever. That means that you are going to be brothers and
sisters forever!
So we need to learn to love each other now.
Link arms and say together: brothers and sisters love each other!
[Main point – loving each other helps when life is sad
(2v4-10)]
Imagine there was a really strong wind right now. It was so
strong that it blew x over. It would make her very sad.
Now all link arms – would the wind be able to push x over
now? No
When we love and care for each other, its like linking arms.
It helps us to keep going when life is sad and hard.
Link arms and say together: brothers and sisters love each other!
Activities
- My new family – cut out people in a row and put a name of a child on each one
- Jigsaw of a picture of the church family
Songs
- Jesus loves me, I belong to Him, Stick with Jesus, Follow, Follow (from a Very, Very Big God)
- God made me Special (from J is for Jesus)
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5-11s
Theme: God’s Word
grows us as His children to love each other, and as His building to keep
trusting Him together
Intro:
Jigsaw of a picture of the church family – hide the pieces
around the room
Bible Teaching:
Remember last week – children of God
If anyone who trusts Jesus is a child of God – that makes us
brothers and sisters, turn to person next to you and call them ‘brother’ or
‘sister’
How should we treat them? Read 1v22. What does that look
like?
Read 1v23-25. [Have some short lived things, eg grass and
flowers] How long do these last for?
But you how long will you live for if you trust Jesus? Forever!
That means that these people are going to be your brothers
and sisters forever! We’d better learn to love each other now.
So, how are we going to do that? How did you grow as a baby?
Milk
[Could play ‘Milk the Cow’ – rubber gloves with a tiny hole
in the end filled with milk]
Read 2v1-3. We grow as God’s children by feeding on His
Word, that helps us to learn to love each other.
[Have some boxes/Jenga blocks]
Put your name on a box/block.
Listen as I read – who is the cornerstone and what happened to Him?
Listen as I read – who is the cornerstone and what happened to Him?
Read 2v4-10.
[Mark the largest box/block with Jesus, then begin to build
into a house]
We’re all part of this great building, but just as Jesus was
rejected so will you be. That makes it even more crucial that we stick together
and love each other.
Imagine there was a really strong wind blowing and it blew
over x. How would they feel? Sad, upset
Now link arms together in a circle – can the wind blow
him/her over now? No
When we love each other as God’s children, it helps us when
people laugh at us for following Jesus.
So let’s feed on God’s Word and grow up together, and let’s
learn to love each other!
Pray
Table Time
Knowledge
- Peter uses two pictures to tell us who we are. What are they? Children, building
- What does Peter tell us we should do? Love each other, listen to God’s Word
- What happened to Jesus? He was rejected
Understanding
- Why should we love each other? We’re going to be together forever! It helps when life is sad
- How are we like a building? Each bricks, Jesus is the cornerstone
- How does the Bible grow us? We get to know Jesus more
Application
- When is it hardest to love our brothers and sisters?
- How can we help each other to love our brothers and sisters in church?
- How much do you love to read the Bible/have the Bible read to you?
- What can we do when people laugh at us for following Jesus?
Funsheets
Pray for suffering Christians
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