Family Worship is a devotional plan which equips your family to build upon the gospel truths your child learns Sunday in children’s church.
We include scripture, questions, and a prayer for you and your child to engage with throughout the week. It is our goal to give you tools to help model a personal worship practice for your children.
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Unit 21: Session 3
Big Picture Unit Question:
Did Jesus ever sin? No, Jesus never sinned.
Christ Connection:
One of the most expensive cars in the world is the Rolls-Royce La Rose Noire Droptail, priced at approximately $30.2 million dollars. This dark red drivable piece of art features a removable full glass roof and beautiful handmade wooden interior features. This is one fancy car! Could you afford to buy this car with your weekly allowance? I don’t think so!
When Nicodemus came to talk with Jesus, he wanted to know how a person could receive new life. Nicodemus studied the Law and tried his hardest to obey, and he hoped this would be enough to afford eternal life. Jesus’ response showed Nicodemus that no one could earn eternal life on their own because it came at a cost too great to afford.
This might sound like bad news, but Jesus gave us good news in the familiar words of John 3:16. In our key passage, Jesus said, “For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
God paid the highest price by sending His own Son. When we could never earn eternal life, God has graciously given it as a free gift to all who believe in Jesus!
Nicodemus was a religious leader, but he needed to be born again to enter the kingdom of God. Jesus shared how the Spirit causes people to be born again to new life. Anyone who believes in Jesus will be born again and receive eternal life.
Questions:
1) How does Jesus’ death on the cross show us God’s love?
God loved us so much that He created a plan to rescue us from our sins by sending Jesus. Jesus lived a perfect life and became the perfect sacrifice for our sins. He took the punishment our sin deserves so that we can be forgiven and have eternal life with God.
2) Why is the gospel good news to sinners?
The Bible tells us that everyone has sinned, so we all have a sin problem. The good news of the gospel is that when we trust in Jesus, He saves us by taking the punishment for our sins and fixing our broken relationship with God.
3) Who can enter the kingdom of God?
Jesus told Nicodemus that a person must be born again to enter the kingdom of God. When we trust Jesus as Savior, the Holy Spirit works in our lives, changing us to be more like Jesus and giving us a new life in Him. There is nothing we can do to earn our way into the kingdom. Only God can give us new life through Jesus.
Pray:
God, Your love is bigger than we can even imagine. You loved the world enough to send Your own Son to save the world and to give eternal life to all who trust in Him. Thank You that even though we have nothing to offer for such a gift, You have made it available to anyone who believes in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Worship Video
The Apostle’s Creed
We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
