2 Years
8 Beatitudes
10 Sunday Mornings
25 Family Units
What does it all add up to? One Family Challenge Sunday School Class. Yesterday we completed our last Family Challenge class studying the beatitudes with The Kingdom Experiment. We had a lively discussion about the challenges from last week, especially how it felt to 'wear our faith on our sleeve' daily. It was a fitting end to the lessons...we really ought to be living our faith out daily in all we say and do. We were reminded that 'the Family Challenge' never ends...and were given 4 tasks to focus on until we meet again: Bible, Prayer, Acts of Service, and Life. Preferably in that order ;)
So the question we left with was, where do we go from here? Do we want to meet as families for Sunday School again next year? For how long...a book session? A semester? What would we like to cover in the class? Some options included "The Sinai Experiment" (weekly challenges based on the 10 commandments - Denise has a copy of the book if you'd like a sneak peek), or a weekly study of a selected book of the Bible. Other ideas are welcome...
Pray about it. Talk about it. Please share your thoughts either by posting a comment on the blog or by reaching out to Denise (yumcsm@gmail.com).
God is good. All the time!
Couple of Random Comments:
ReplyDelete1 - How long? - Not a whole semester. It's great getting together but I also like the adult SS class and I'm sure the kids like their youth classes. There are also some who won't participate because they don't have teens/tweens. IMO a book (about 6 week) length is okay (we can always do it again next spring!)
2 - Other thoughts for subjects (although I don't know if there are similar books like we've been using): Lord's Prayer, Apostles' Creed, perhaps a book of the Bible (I'm always partial to Lamentations, but I'll bet the challenges are REALLY hard!). Although we did the Beatitudes, there is lots more to the Sermon on the Mount and some of it is pretty tough, earthy stuff.
-Scott
The Rymers chatted about options and the kids liked the idea of the 10 Commandments, or another 'challenge' style class since it keeps us accountable through the week and it's a great icebreaker each Sunday to hear how the week went for everyone...
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