Sunday School Lessons Children – The Bible

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Here are some ideas for teaching the significance of the Bible in your Sunday school lessons children. Your 9-11 year olds will have fun creating the scroll in the activity below which also reinforces the discussions on the importance of the Bible to Christians and how they live their lives.

Bible Story:
Today choose any Bible story that you enjoy which has a message about how God would like to have us behave. Make sure that you read out the Bible location clearly – for example Matthew 13: 24-30.

Discussion 1:
What does the class know about the Bible. What is its purpose? How important is it? What is the structure? How did the first Bibles look? Were they in English? Who wrote the Bible?

Activity 1:
Give each student a piece of construction paper, a pen, and a piece of ribbon. You will also need something to secure the ribbon to the paper.

Ask the students to create a table that illustrates how the Bible is structured. This could be something like a family tree with the Bible centered at the top of the page, then dividing into two branches for the Old and New Testaments, and then each of those dividing down again. You can make this as simple or complicated as you think your class can manage (ie have them write the name of each of the books on the table, or not). Once they have completed this, show them how to secure the ribbon so that when they roll up the paper, they can keep it in a scroll shape by tying the ribbon around it.

Discussion 2:
The Bible, above all else, is a book of instructions for Christians. It shows how God wants us to be. Why is it important to have a book of instructions? Why is it even more important to read and understand what that instruction book says?

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