This Week: Acts 16:16-34, Psalm 97, Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21, John 17:20-26
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? --
Did anyone have any insights about... Christ's people as sheep;
1.Where are the unusual and unofficial “places of prayer” in our city?
2.What picture might Lydia and the other women have had of God?
3.What new images of God did Paul bring to the women of Macedonia?
4.How do the images of God in Revelations “stretch” our own perception of God?
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 2:1-21 or Genesis 11:1-9, Psalm 104:24-34, 35b, Romans 8:14-17 or Acts 2:1-21, John 14:8-17, (25-27)