Gospel Project Parent Connect Sept 22, 2013 Dear Parents, Thank you to Mrs. Charlene who stayed and helped with Children’s Church. We reviewed our SS lesson from last week by building a temple out of sugar cubes. It served as an example of what a tedious job Solomon’s workers had building the temple for 7 years. The last segment of part two of “What’s In The Bible?” vol. 2 was a great and interesting way to review all we have learned about Solomon so far. Thank you to our Sunday School teachers this week: Mrs. Tiffany in 1st grade, Mrs. Pam and Mr. Nat in 3rd grade, Mrs. Linda in 4th grade, and Bobby who helped me with 2nd grade and 5th grade. In Sunday School, The Gospel Project for Kids continues to follow the life of Solomon today but gives another story of sin and its result. Solomon, with his God-granted wisdom, still made many mistakes. Solomon had married many foreign women and was led away from worship of the one true God to follow the gods of his foreign wives. God told Solomon that for the rest of his life he would be king of Israel, but once he died, Solomon’s son would have all but one tribe ripped out of his hands. Jeroboam, one of Solomon’s servants, turned against Solomon. Once Solomon died and his son, Rehoboam, took the throne, Jeroboam led most of the nation of Israel to follow him north, where he set up his kingdom in Samaria. Rehoboam didn’t like being king of only one tribe and decided to attack the northern kingdom. God stopped his plans and the nation was divided. Jeroboam formed two golden calves and told the people of the northern tribes that they could worship the golden calves instead of having to go to Jerusalem to worship God at the temple. From that point forward, the northern tribe of Israel started a steeply declining spiral into sin that they would never recover from. King Solomon’s sin led to the division of Israel. Every king failed to lead God’s people perfectly. God’s people needed a better king, a perfect king! Through David’s family, God would send His own Son, Jesus Christ, to be King over God’s people forever. Jesus would lead the people perfectly back to God. Family Time: Lesson Title: Solomon’s Sin Divided the Kingdom Bible Passage: 1 Kings 11-12 Key Passage for the Month: "Let your heart be completely devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as it is today." 1 Kings 8:61 Christ Connection: King Solomon’s sin led to the division of Israel. Every king failed to lead God’s people perfectly. God’s people needed a better king, a perfect king! Through David’s family, God would send His own Son, Jesus Christ, to be King over God’s people forever. Jesus would lead the people perfectly back to God. Family Activity: Take turns kicking a ball toward a target. Talk about how much the ball misses the goal if it is kicked slightly off the direction of the goal. Talk about how in the beginning Solomon’s sins probably didn’t seem “off the goal” to him, but they caused a huge, terrible result for his people: his kingdom became divided. Read 1 Kings 9:4-9 amd the big picture questions for preschool and kids. Next Sunday’s lesson: Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Shark Sunday is here next Sunday. Be sure to wear casual clothes, “You will get wet!” If you have it already, wear any of the following: shirt with shark or any animal on it, a blue shirt, goggles, swimmies, life ring, etc. Use your imagination!! Thank you to Mr. Joey and Mrs. Lindsay Riollano for for making such a huge donation to decorating our room for Shark Sunday. Thank you to Mrs. Gail Baxley, Mr. Dave Maugans, and Mrs. Belinda Roberts for your donations to this event. Parents, please feel welcome to join us on this adventure from 9:30-11:00 next Sunday!!! Children, bring your friends to Shark Sunday and make sure they know they are invited to Sunday School too. 6th grade parents, your 6th grader is invited to come back for this event at 9:30.
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