This Week: Acts 11:1-18, Psalm 148, Revelation 21:1-6, John 13:31-35
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 Good Shepherd “My sheep know me and they know my voice”
Did anyone have any insights about...
1.What were Dorcas' “greatest achievements”? What legacy did she leave behind?
2.What are you leaving behind, equivalent to the “tunics and other clothing” that Dorcas left, as witness to your ministry?
3.What things do you do that create beauty?
4.When was the last time that you wept over someone's death?
5.What was your legacy from that person – the gifts they left behind?
6.Was that person a member of Christ's flock? How do you know?
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 16:9-15, Psalm 67, Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5, John 14:23-29 or John 5:1-9