This Week: Acts 16:9-15, Psalm 67, Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5, John 14:23-29 or John 5:1-9
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? -- Confirmation Sunday
What was the Gospel lesson? -- The Good Shepherd “My sheep know me and they know my voice”
Did anyone have any insights about... Christ's people as sheep;
Are there special categories of people you are tempted to exclude as "impure?"
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.Does Peter's vision suggest that we should not be worried about our personal purity? Why or why not?
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When keeping yourself pure comes into conflict with having compassion for others, which concern should be your priority?
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In what ways or what circumstances is it right to make an effort to safeguard your own purity?
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Can you think of modern equivalents to Peter's encounter with Cornelius?
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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 16:16-34, Psalm 97, Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21, John 17:20-26