Read
the lessons at the Vanderbilt Library website:
http://divinity.lib.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary/BLent/bLent4.htm
Photograph
above shows civil rights demonstrators arrested in Nashville,
Tennessee. From the Kelly Miller Smith Papers, Vanderbilt University
Special Collections
Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Saint Luke's Anglican Church
Family Lectionary Study;
Alternate Sundays from 9:30 to 10:15 in the Gym
Opening Music
Review: "He's still working on me"
Introduce: "Little by Little He's changing me"
Review of Previous Lessons
Discuss Pew-work. Give everyone a chance to show or talk about their insights.
What was the sermon on? -- (We weren't here, but the priest where we were visiting talked about positioning the Commandments as positive statements rather than as prohibitions, and about the way this conversion from negatives to positives is accomplished in the Catechism. )
What was the Gospel lesson? -- (Jesus casts the money-changers out of the Temple)
Did anyone have any insights about...
The role of the Law, or of the 10 Commandments, in your life, and in Christian Life in general?
Positive constraints upon your behaviour: what is Christ calling you to *do* rather than *not do*?
What would Christ want to cast out from your life, or from your church?
Set the calendar-clock to the right date. Lent tells the story of Christ's temptation, rejection, and final suffering. We walk with Christ through the days of Lent by prayer and fasting. -- in this case the discovery of who Jesus is. Review our memory scripture:
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came
from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And
straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened,
and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: and there came a
voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased. And immediately the spirit driveth him into the
wilderness.
And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted
of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered
unto him.
Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into
Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
And saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye,
and believe the gospel.
Bible Passage
Activity
Draw patterns for decorating our cross: transfer the patterns to the 2X4 cross that we hammered together last class; begin carving and sanding.
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