This Week: Acts 9:36-43, Psalm 23, Revelation 7:9-17, John 10:22-30
Emmanuel Community Church
All-Ages Bible Study;
Sundays from 9:30 to 10:15 in the Prayer Room
Opening
Set the Church-year Calendar. This is the season of Easter, the “great and holy Fifty Days”.
Review responses to last week's homework:
Review of Lesson from Palm Sunday
Discuss Pew-work. Give everyone a chance to show or talk about their insights.
What was the sermon on? --
What was the Gospel lesson? -- The fish-fy on the shore: “Feed my sheep”
Did anyone have any insights about... our call to be Shepherds, sharing a meal with Jesus;
What is the meaning of the risen Jesus in Peter's and the other disciple's lives, and in ours?
How does a call from Jesus, with instructions to “feed my sheep,” change our lives?
Who are Jesus’ sheep and lambs today?
Are we called to be shepherds, and how does that role “fit” us in the modern world?
How is eating – table-fellowship – a part of this story, and why is it such a recurring theme in the story of Jesus?
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Memory Scripture:
Bible Passage
Pew-work Hand-outs
“Pew-work” is like Home-work, except that it is done in the pews, instead of being done at home. Because it is focussed on the readings (as the sermon, presumably, also is) it can be done during the sermon to help the listener concentrate. Or, it can be done while waiting for everyone else to finish their communion. It isn't done during prayers, or hymns, or the readings, because
During Prayers, we pray
During Hymns, we sing
During the Readings, we listen
Middle-school Students' Pew-work
Elementary-School Students' Pew-work
Next week: Acts 11:1-18, Psalm 148, Revelation 21:1-6, John 13:31-35