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 5 • Session 2
Big Picture Unit Question:
Why do we need to be saved? People are sinful and cannot save themselves.
Christ Connection:
The average person will spend 52 days of their life waiting in line. That’s a lot of … waiting! We don’t like waiting in line at the store, waiting for our food to be ready, and waiting on our sister to get out of the bathroom. The worst is waiting on someone to help us do something we really want to do for ourselves. Waiting makes us impatient and frustrated, which leads us to say or do things we wouldn’t normally do.
This was exactly the case for the Israelites. God led His people into the wilderness, but He did not leave them there alone. He was there with them. He provided meat, bread, and water to satisfy them. But when Moses went up on the mountain and did not return for several weeks, the people felt abandoned. Instead of trusting God and being patient, they decided to make something new to worship.
When God saw what they were doing, He wanted to destroy the people. It may sound harsh, but God had every right to do so! They took the worship that belonged to God—the one who saved them from Egypt—and gave it to a metal cow!
The Israelites deserved to be punished for their sin against God, but Moses asked God to forgive the people. In the same way, we deserve to be punished for our sin, but God has made forgiveness available through Jesus.
The people chose to worship a golden calf instead of God, and God’s anger burned against them. Moses interceded so that God would forgive them. We are all sinners who deserve the wrath of God, but Jesus interceded for us through His life, death, and resurrection so we can be saved!
Questions:
1) Why do we sin?
Remind kids how sin entered the world through Adam and Eve’s disobedience. Tell kids that sin spread to all people because we are all born with hearts that want our way rather than God’s way. Discuss how we sin when we disobey God and His commands.
2) Why does sin separate us from God?
Tell kids that God is perfect and holy. He hates sin because sin is against God and what He loves. Discuss how Jesus came to pay the price for our sin by dying on the cross. When we trust Jesus as Savior, He forgives our sins and gives us His righteousness. Those who trust in Jesus will live with God forever.
3) Why did Jesus have to pay for our sin?
Share that the Bible tells us the payment for sin is death (Romans 6:23). God will not allow sin to go unpunished because all sin is an eternal wrong against God. Encourage kids with the gospel: Because of God’s great love for us, He sent Jesus to pay the price for our sins. Jesus died in our place so that those who trust in Him will be free from the punishment of sin and experience new life with Him forever.
Pray:
God, forgive us for making other things more important than You. Help us remember Your faithfulness and help us keep You first in our lives. Thank You for Jesus and for His sacrifice to save us from our sin. 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.
