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Photograph above shows civil rights demonstrators arrested in Nashville, Tennessee. From the Kelly Miller Smith Papers, Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Elementary School Pew-work

Listen hard to the Gospel. Afterward, unscramble the bold words in this story:

¹⁴And the Son of Man must be tedlif (_________) up, just as that metal snake was lifted up by sMose(________) in the desert. ¹⁵Then everyone who has hfiat (________) in the Son of Man will have eternal life. ¹⁶God loved the people of this world so much that he geva (_______) his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die. ¹⁷God did not send his Son into the dlowr(________) to condemn its people. He sent him to save them! ¹⁸No one who has faith in God's Son will be ddeennmoc(____________). But everyone who doesn't have faith in him has already been condemned for not having faith in God's only oSn(_______).
¹⁹The light has come into the world, and people who do evil things are judged guilty because they love the dark more than the ghilt(________). ²⁰People who do evil hate the light and won't come to the light, because it ylclare (_______) shows what they have done. ²¹But everyone ohw(______) lives by the truth will come to the light, abceesu(__________) they want others to know that God is really the one doing what they do.