I decided to use journal entry for this instead of Word Documents, etc. due to past experience of inconsistency in scheduling.
This is for a group of kids from age 8-11 in New York City in a liberal oriented reformed church for a span of 4 weeks.
The goal is to understand the Gospel through the summary of the whole Bible.
Week one: (Not necessary to mention each subtitle to kids)
Introduction -> Bible -> Ontology -> Gospel -> Bible
1. What is the Bible? Books? What's it about? Who wrote? Preview of the Bible movie - first half of intro, second half at the end.
Move on to who is God.
2. Who is God? What do you think about God?
How real is God in your lives? The most powerful (creates everything), the strongest, the cleverest, the most honest, the greatest!
The Existence of God - Anselm's ontological argument Proslogium
So I need to cut find cutouts such as Santa Claus, etc. And cut a big God label across all 3 sections.
3. What is the Gospel?
Who thinks he/she will not die? Everyone dies.
Do you like dying? Why do people die? - Health, accidents, etc.
We are afraid because we are sinners.
The wages of sin is Death...what does Wages mean? Repeat: The wages of Sin is death... (Romans 6:23 - second part at the end of Gospel). All have Sinned (Memory Verse - Romans 3:23).
Son of God...died for us. We must repent.
Adam - Abraham:
Creation - Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, (Jubal the musician [Gen 4:21], Enoch), Noah, Babel, Abraham.
Week two:
Job, Joseph, Moses->David
Week three:
Solomon -> Esther, Daniel, prophets
4. New Testament. Quizzes?
I have underestimated the kids. They are in many ways smarter and more knowledgeable than the youth.
One gets bored easily and takes it on others. The others just scribble on papers.
The movie clip quiets all down. But it's not easy to compile a good clip. I may or may not use this tactic.
Joshua, Kevin ask questions pertaining to existence of God. I have yet to find time to address that. Perhaps I shall go over that in detail in Program 2.