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- Online Experience Video for you and your student to watch together
- Discussion Questions for you & your student
- Pre-Teen Guide for your student to go a little deeper on his/her own
- Salvation Conversation Guide for one of the most important conversations you’ll ever have
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Online Experience Video
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For parents
Special Needs Ministry Modified Elementary Curriculum:
- April 2
- April 9- Easter
- April 16
- April 23
- April 30- 5th Sunday Funday (no modified lesson)
DISCUSSION
Monthly Virtue: Humility—Putting others first by giving up what you think you deserve.
Memory Verse: Don’t do anything only to get ahead. Don’t do it because you are proud. Instead, be humble. Value others more than yourselves. Philippians 2:3 (NIrV)
Week 1: April 2
Bible Story: Washed by the Water (Palm Sunday/Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet) • John 12:9-16; 13:1-17 (Matthew 21:1-11)
Key Question: When has someone put you first?
Bottom Line: Jesus put others first.
Basic Truth: I am made for a purpose so I can tell people about God.
Ask the following questions and lead the group to discuss:
- How have you put someone first recently?
- We naturally tend to think of ourselves first. What can we do to get in the habit of thinking outside of ourselves and seeing where we can put others first?
- Why do you think some people are easier to put first than others?
- Why do you think it’s so hard to put others first?
Week 2: April 9- Easter
Bible Story: Rise Again (Crucified and Risen) • John 18:12–20:23 (John 16; Matthew 26)
Bottom Line: Celebrate because Jesus is alive.
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can belong in God’s family forever.
Week 3: April 16
Bible Story: Brother (Being Humble Like Jesus) • Philippians 2:3-8
Key Question: When has someone put you first?
Bottom Line: Put others first because Jesus put you first.
Basic Truth: I am made for a purpose so I can tell people about God.
Ask the following questions and lead the group to discuss:
- What does it look like to “put others first” in your family? How about at school?
- What do we see in the world around us that tells us WE are number one and that we must think of ourselves first?
- What are some reasons we would choose to put others first?
- Is it possible to put others first for the wrong motives? What would those motives be and what makes them wrong?
Week 4: April 23
Bible Story: Stand by Me (On the Road to Emmaus) • Luke 24:13-35
Key Question: When has someone helped you understand something?
Bottom Line: Put others first by helping them understand.
Basic Truth: I am made for a purpose so I can tell people about God.
Ask the following questions and lead the group to discuss:
- When it comes to knowing Jesus, what would you say are the most important things to understand?
- What would you like to understand better about God? Who can you go to for help?
- If someone asks you for help to understand something, when is it hard for you to do that with a good attitude? What makes the difference between it being hard or easy?
Week 5: April 30
Bible Story: Mercy’s Shore (Jesus Restores Peter) • John 21:1-19 (John 18:1-27)
Key Question: When is it hard to make things right?
Bottom Line: Put others first by making things right
Basic Truth: I should treat others the way I want to be treated.
Ask:
- How do you benefit by being the first one to step out and make things right with others?
- If God wants us to make things right with others, what does that tell you about how much God values relationships? What else has God done that shows us how incredibly important it is for relationships to be restored?
- Why do we sometimes choose to not make things right after something has happened between us and a friend or a family member? Is there ever a good reason to avoid making things right?
- Can our motives ever be selfish even when we’re doing something to make things right? Explain.
For students
Pre-teen Devotional
The Pre-Teen Learner Guide is designed to provide Bible Study throughout the week for your 4th or 5th grader.
Sermon Notes discussion guide (for students who watch the adult service, too!)
