Sunday School Lesson

Just finished working on the outline for the Sunday School lesson we'll be doing while in Thailand.  This is different than the outreach program that we'll be doing in the villages and/or orphanages.  The Sunday School lesson will be given on a  Sunday (duh!) to a group of kids that already attend church.  I'm part of the team that is developing that lesson.  Here is a rough outline of what we will be teaching:

Main Theme: God Loves Us! 

1 John 3:1 - “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!”

Supporting Points

1.  God demonstrated His love for us by creating us.

• He knew us before we were born.
• Psalm 139:13-16 - “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

2.  God demonstrates His love for us by knowing us.

• He knows everything about us even the number of hairs on our head.
• Matthew 10:30 - “And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”

3. He loved us so much that He died for us.

• Even though we have all disobeyed God, He loves us so much that He sent His only son to die in our place.
• Romans 5:8 - “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
• John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”