On This Rock: Peter's Confession of Christ

Central Truth: Jesus is God's son and he came to save us.

Scriptures: Matthew 16:13-18

In this week's Sunday School lesson, we asked ourselves why do we come to church? And what is the most important thing for a Christian to believe? We looked at Peter's confession that Jesus was the Messiah. Jesus wants us to believe but not because others believe, but because we want to believe through our own personal relationships with our Savior. Jesus revealed to Peter that his church is built on the foundation that Jesus is the Messiah, the son of God. It is our strong conviction and belief that Jesus saved us, and it is only through his sacrifice that we are saved.

This week's lesson comes from the book Children Sunday School Lessons: The Parables and Teachings of Jesus, Vol. 2by Rev. Stephen R. Wilson. 

Destinee learning the books of the Old Testament.

For the past few weeks, I have been preparing the students to learn the books of the Bible. In an effort to help them, I created a fun game for them to play that will teach them the Old and New Testament. I cut some index cards in half. Then I wrote the name of a book of the Bible on the front, and on the back I gave them a number (the order in which the books are found within the Bible) with some information about that book, including the time period that the events in the book happened, a short summary of the events, the setting, and the author of the book. A trophy will be given away to the children who know the books of the Bible.

Cleansed by the Blood

Central Truth: The blood of Jesus had to be shed in order for the sins of mankind to be forgiven.

Memory Verse: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 (the children said that my original one was too long).

In this week's lesson, we discussed how Peter denied Jesus three times at his trial, and how Jesus knew that he would and forgave him.

We also took turns reading "The First Sin: The Fall" from Bible for Kids app on the iPad. It's a fun way to get the kids interested in reading. Afterwards, we played games from Superbook app, which included a trivia game (our highest score this week is 80 points!) and a word search.

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