This week's lessons: Genesis 12:1-4a , Psalm 121 , Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 , John 3:1-17 or Matthew 17:1-9

Emmanuel Community Church

Inter-generational Lectionary Study;

Sundays from 10:0 to 10:45 in the Board Room

Opening

Opening prayer by leader, or invite another participant to pray, or us:

Almighty God, who has caused all Holy Scripture to be written for our learning, open our ears and hearts today to learn from your word and from one another, we ask in Jesus' Name. Amen

Set the calendar-clock to the right date. Lent is our time of preparation for Easter: a time to examine our souls and consciences; a time to reform our lives; a time to prepare for the greatest feast of the year, that commemorates the greatest event of all creation. Over the weeks of Lent, the Gospel readings will take us with Christ along the road to redemption.

Today, the Gospel reviews for us Christ's temptation in the wilderness.

Review of Last Week

What was the sermon on? -

What was the Gospel lesson?

Did anyone have any insights about...

1. What promises have you heard, and believed?
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2. What are the things that you have had to leave behind in order to follow God’s call?
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3. What are the unimaginable and unforeseen blessings that have come to you on this journey?
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4. When has Emmanuel Community Church heard God promise fullness of life, abundance, greatness, and blessing?
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5. Who are “all the families of the earth” to us at Emmanuel, and how are they blessed in us?
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Memory Verse:

^{20.1The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.}

^{2 Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.}

^{3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulcre.}

^{4 So they ran both together; and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre;}

^{5 and he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying; yet went he not in.}

^{6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen cloths lie;}

^{7 and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by itself.}

^{8 Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.}

^{9 For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.}

^{10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.}

Bible Passage

Exodus 17:1-7

Psalm 95

Romans 5:1-11

John 4:5-42

One of the most stunning passages of the Gospel, this is a “Epiphany” passage: the Samaritan woman is an outsider, but it is to her that Christ reveals his nature as Saviour, that even his close disciples do not yet understand. Christ's banter with the woman assures her that he understands her marginalization by the society in which she lives, and that his offer of living water is given in that full knowledge, without rejection or condemnation because of her ambiguous legal status.

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

Adult Student's Pew-work

Middle-school Students' Pew-work

Elementary-School Students' Pew-work

Pre-Schooler's Pew-work

Next week's lessons:1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 23, Ephesians 5:8-14 , John 9:1-41