Sunday School Summary Oct-Nov 2012

Sunday School Summary Oct-Nov 2012
Oct 21-Nov 1 -- Sunday School Summary * WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT: "You've seen their shiny, happy faces staring at you from picture frames, magazine ads and commercials. They are the perfect family. Every tooth sparkles. Every face beams with joy. And they seem to have everything you don't. But the reality is, well they aren't real. In fact, it's an illusion. There's no such thing as a picture perfect family. Families are made up of imperfect people--people like you and me. So how do we live and interact with the family God has placed us in? How do we find a way to be a part of it, instead of just surviving and living for the day when we move on? Because no family is perfect. And no person is either. "

Thursday, January 13, 2011

GodView Series

Sorry it's been a few weeks since I last posted an update for you parents. I took some time off over the Christmas holidays and then I have been playing catch up ever since. I hope you had lots of quality time with your families over Christmas. It was a special time for me because God has truly blessed me with a wonderful family. 


Over the break the thing I noticed and thought about several times was the way that I and the people I am surrounded by think about God. Our Godview if you will. My niece had a little toy Viewmaster she was looking through at my in-laws house over Christmas. I watched her frustratingly trying to put the pictures in the toy until a hero swooped in to help her. I thought to myself, she will look through that Viewmaster and see only what someone puts in there for her to see. Think about that for a second. Your children, the students in my ministry are looking through a Viewmaster at a picture of God that we have put in there for them to see. The tendency for each one of us is to think we have God all figured out. But this week is about one simple truth—we don’t. This week we want students to see that the more they come to know God, the more they will realize there is always more of God to know. He’s that big, that mysterious, that amazing. At the close of this series, we hope your student will walk away with the desire to pursue a relationship with God and to know God more every day. "My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2: 2-3


How do you view Him? How do your children view Him? 


Take a moment this week to talk with your student about their Godview... here's some questions to get the conversation rolling. "What is mysterious to you about God? Is it comforting or frightening to know there are things about God we don’t have figured out? Why or why not?" 


It may be out of left field. It may not be the way you've ever thought. Consider it. 


Much love.
Jordan 
“He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.” Proverbs 14:26b
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