17 June 2012

Kelas 1 - 3

sesi 1 = Coach Sianthy

sesi 2 = Coach Yungcien

Kelas 4 - 6

sesi 1 = Coach Swanky

sesi 2 = Coach Kezia

The Parable of The Sower

Lesson: Jesus' Words bear fruits in us 

1. Story:

• Tell Jesus's Parable of The Sower from Luke 8:4-15.
• Jesus likes to tell stories. One day, He told a large crowd the parable of a sower (farmer).
• Once there was a farmer who went to sow his seed.
• Some of the seed fell on the path, where people walked on. The seed got stepped on, and the birds came and ate them up.
• Some of the seed fell on dry, rocky ground. The plant grew, but then it dried up and died because it didn’t have enough water.
• Some of the seed fell on thorns. As the plants grew, the thorns also grew and choked them.
• Still other seed fell on good soil. When the plants grew, it bore a hundred times more fruit!

 2. Lesson: (Understanding the Parable of the Sower)

• Later, Jesus’ disciples asked him what the parable meant. Jesus explained:
• The seed = word of God; The soil = our hearts
• Path: Those who hear, but have the word taken away by the devil so that they do not believe in what Jesus says
• Sometimes we hear the Word of God, one of Jesus’ promises, and we do not believe it. Maybe we have been disappointed before, so we reject God’s word. Then we don’t give God’s word a chance to work in our lives.
• E.g.  Jesus says He has authority over sicknesses. But you say, “Last time I prayed, but I didn’t get healed. So it can’t be true.” Then when you are sick, you don’t believe that Jesus can heal you.

• Rocky ground: Those who hear and receive the word with joy, but they have no root. When time of testing comes, they fall away.
• Sometimes we hear Jesus’ word, about His love and His grace, but our heart is still hard — we still rely on ourselves, our efforts, our works. When challenges come, you decide that you want to follow your own way instead of relying on Jesus. So we miss out on seeing Jesus work in our lives.
• E.g. Jesus says He will never leave you and He will be with you forever. But maybe you think that “Today I was very naughty, so Jesus won’t want to be with me.” So whenever you do something wrong, you hide from Jesus instead of going to Him.

• Thorns: Those who hear, but as time goes by, they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and do not mature.
• Sometimes we hear Jesus’ word, but we let our fears overcome our faith. Or we rely on the things of this world instead of relying on Jesus. Then we get distracted by all these things that we think can give us security and happiness, and we forget that in Jesus, we have everything
• E.g. Jesus says He will provide everything for us. But we may think, “I have to provide for my own need. I’ve got to keep working and saving and storing up so that I have enough.” Then as you grow older, you put all your time and energy into your career, you concentrate on making money, and you are so tired and don’t have any time for God anymore.

• Good soil: Those with good hearts, who hear the word, keep it in faith, and produce fruit a hundred fold.
• We all can be the good soil — we can all hear Jesus’ word and believe it. Believe in who He is. Believe what He says. Believe that He loves you. Believe that He is good. And as we receive the word of faith, we see it produce lots of fruit in our lives! We’ll see His healing, His blessings, His love, His goodness overflow in our lives.

• The seed is always good seed. God’s word is always true.
• The more we focus on Jesus and what He has done for us on the cross, we:
• Don’t let the devil take away His word from our hearts; we will believe what Jesus says and promised
• Don’t try to depend on our own goodness and abilities; we depend on Jesus and His finished work
• Don’t be overwhelmed by our fears or chase after other things to make us happy; we’ll go straight to Jesus, our source
• Will bear much, much fruit, one hundred times more!

3. Activity Ideas:

• Craft: Fruitful seed
• Print out/draw pictures of a fruitful plant and get kids to stick seeds (e.g. soya beans, kidney beans etc — larger beans will be easier for younger children) at the root of the plant.
• Or decorate the plant with the seeds.
• Write around the plant: “God’s word bears fruit in me”

• Worksheet: Parable of the Sower 

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Youth Bible Study

Jesus' Parable: The Sower

Leader' Guide

Read Luke 8:4-15.

1. Jesus told a parable about a sower. The sower sowed seeds that fell on 4types of ground. What happened to each of them?

2.       How did Jesus explain the parable?

• Seed = Word of God
• Soil = Heart
• Path = Those who hear but the devil takes the word out of their hearts before they can believe and be saved.
• Rocky ground = Those who hear and receive the word with joy, but they have no root. When time of testing comes, they fall away.
• Thorns = Those who hear, but as time goes by, they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and do not mature.
• Good soil = Those with good hearts, who hear the word, keep it in faith, and produce fruit a hundred fold.

• The seed is always good seed. God’s word is always true.
• The more we focus on Jesus and what He has done for us on the cross, we:
• Don’t let the devil take away His word from our hearts; we will believe what Jesus says and promised
• Don’t try to depend on our own goodness and abilities; we depend on Jesus and His finished work
• Don’t be overwhelmed by our fears or chase after other things to make us happy; we’ll go straight to Jesus, our source
• Will bear much, much fruit, one hundred times more!

10 Juni 2012

Kelas 1 - 3

sesi 1 = Coach Grace

sesi 2 = Coach Iwan

Kelas 4 - 6

sesi 1 = Coach Andy

sesi 2 = Coach Agus Rianto

Mary & Martha

Lesson: Jesus calls us to rest in Him

1. Story:

• Tell story based on Luke 10:38-42.
• When Jesus visited his two friends, Martha and Mary, they must have been so excited to have Jesus in their house.
• How did Martha react? She wanted to make everything perfect for Jesus. She was so busy preparing the food and cleaning the house for Jesus. She wanted Him to enjoy His time with them.
• But how did Mary react? She was interested in Jesus, in spending time with Him, in hearing Him talk. So she just sat at His feet and listened.
• Martha was rushing everything, and seeing Mary just sitting there made her angry. She complained to Jesus, “My sister left me to do the work by myself! Tell her to help me!”
• Jesus calmed her down. “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

2. Lesson: Good News for Today!

• Martha thought Jesus would be pleased with her if she did everything right. She wanted everything to be just nice for Him.
• But in her busyness, she became stressed — “upset and worried” about many things. She also became bitter and angry at people whom she thought wasn’t doing their share of the work. She complained about them.
• But Jesus reminded Martha that He didn’t need all her “doing” to be pleased with her. He was already pleased with her.
• All she needed to do was be like Mary and to just sit and spend time with Him, resting.
• It’s not wrong to want to serve Jesus. In fact, it is good to serve one another. But we cannot serve out of our own strength and we shouldn’t serve because we think it would make God love us more. Doing so would make us upset, worried, bitter and angry. We become tired and burnt out.
• Let’s all learn to rest in Jesus first, to let Him fill us with His love and strength. Then our service and ministry will be an outflow of Him in our lives.
•  Illustration idea: (You may choose to use props etc) Torch light with battery vs Lamp plugged into socket. Once the battery runs out, the torch light will not work anymore. But the lamp is plugged into the power source and will keep on shining. If we do things on our own strength, we are running on our own battery, which will drain out eventually. But if we rest in Jesus, we’re always connected in His strength, which will never run out.
• God promises rest to all of us in Christ Jesus. At the cross, Jesus has done everything for us; He becomes everything for us. When we trust in Him, we can rest and draw on His love, His joy, and His strength every day. And we can serve Him and others with His love, His joy and His strength.
• Memory Verse: Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
• Prayer: Thank you Jesus that we can rest in You because You have done everything for us. Thank you that You love to spend time with us. Thank you that we can draw all we need from You. Thank you that we don’t have to do anything to make You love us more. Thank you for loving me. In Your name we pray, Amen.

3. Activity ideas:

• Quiet time: Play some slow worship songs. Have kids sit a bit apart from each other, close their eyes, keep quiet and just enjoy the music and God’s presence for about 5 -10 minutes (depending on age/attention span).

3 Juni 2012

Kelas 1 - 3

sesi 1 = Coach Eko

sesi 2 = Coach Shevica

Kelas 4 - 6

sesi 1 = Coach Savitri

sesi 2 = Coach Micah

Jesus calls the fishermen to be His disciples

Lesson: Jesus calls us to follow Him 

1.    Story:

• Tell the story of Jesus calling the fishermen to be His disciples from Luke 5:1-11.
• One day, Jesus went to the Sea of Galilee. People crowded around Him and listened to the word of God.
• There were two fishing boats at the shore, one belonging to a fisherman named Simon.
• Jesus got into Simon’s boat and asked him to put the boat a bit further from the shore. Then Jesus sat down and taught the people from the boat.
• After he taught the people, he told Simon, “Go to the deep water and put down the nets for a catch.”
• Simon wasn’t so sure. After all, he was the fisherman. “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything.” Simon was tired from being out all night. He didn’t want to try to catch fish again.
• Yet, somehow, this strange man Jesus seemed to know something he didn’t. So Peter said, “But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”
• So Peter and his friends cast the net into the water. And guess what happened?! Suddenly the whole net was full of fishes! There were so many, that the nets began to break!
• So they called their partners, James and John, to help them! And both boats were soooo full that they began to sink!
• Suddenly Simon fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”
• Jesus told Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on, you will fish for people.”
• So Simon, James and John pulled their boats up on the shore, left everything and followed Jesus.

Act it out:

Props: Long table, 2 badminton nets, many cutout card fishes (can be reused for craft)

• Set up a long table on its sides on the stage to resemble the side of the boat.
• Pin the cutout card fishes to one of the nets; fill up the net if possible. Hide this net between the table and the wall. (You may want to stick one edge of the net to the back of the table for easy access).
• Place the other empty net on the stage, visible to the kids.
• Teacher sits on chair on the stage, as if in a boat, while telling the story. When it comes to putting down the nets, take the empty net and cast it behind the table.
• Then do a “switch” and pull up the “full” net, slowly, as if it’s very heavy.
• Call 2 boys to come on stage to help you pull the nets too.
• When the “full” net is on the stage, let the boys sit down and continue with the rest of the story and lesson.

 2. Lesson: Good news for today!

• When we do things on our own effort, sometimes we get little or no results. Like the fishermen who worked long and hard, through the night. But when Jesus tells you where to go and what to do, the result is more than you can ask for or imagine.
• Like Simon, we have to realise that no matter how good or clever we are, we cannot be good enough to meet God’s standards.
• But the good news is, Jesus is good enough! And when we trust in Him, He makes us good enough too. Isn’t that good news? Don’t you want to tell other people how good Jesus is?
• Once you know how good Jesus is to you, you will be like the fishermen — you will leave everything (your own efforts, your achievements, your strengths) because Jesus is better than whatever we have. And we will want to share His love and grace to all your friends too!

 3. Activity Ideas: 
a. Song: I will make you fishers of man


b. Activity Sheet: Fish Maze

c. Fishing Memory Verse

• Prepare 3 sets of 9 fish cutouts (total 27); write on each one:|From | now | on | you | will | fish | for | people | Luke 5:10b |
• Divide kids into 3 groups. Pass each group a set of jumbled up fish cutouts and let them arrange them to form the verse.

d. Craft: Fish Card

• Each kid gets a cutout card fish (can use the same ones used in the story telling). 
• Have them write the memory verse on one side of the fish.
• On the other side, let them write the name of a friend that they’d like to share the good news of Jesus with.
• Lead them to pray for the friends who do not yet know Jesus’ love and goodness.

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Youth Bible Study

Leader's Guide

Jesus calls us to follow Him

Read Luke 5:1-8

Jesus' Life: Jesus calls us to follow Him

Read Luke 5:1-8

1.       Where was Jesus in this story?

By the Lake of Gennesaret (or the Sea of Galilee)

2.       Where did Jesus preach from?

Simon’s fishing boat.

3.       What did Jesus tell Simon to do after he finished speaking?

To put out into deep water and let down the nets for a catch.

4.       How did Simon Peter respond? How do you think he felt?

“Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” Simon was tired from being out all night. He didn’t want to try to catch fish again. After all, he was the fisherman, the “expert”. Yet, somehow, this strange man Jesus seemed to know something he didn’t, so he obeyed.

5.       What happened next?

They caught a large number of fish until their nets began to break. Then they signalled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and both boats were so full until they began to sink.

6.       What was Simon’s response to this miracle?

He fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”

7.       What did Jesus say? And how did the fishermen respond?

“Don’t be afraid; from now on, you will fish for people.” Then Simon, James and John pulled their boats up on the shore, left everything and followed Jesus.

·       Lesson:

o       When we do things on our own effort, sometimes we get little or no results. Like the fishermen who worked long and hard, through the night. But when Jesus tells you where to go and what to do, the result is more than you can ask for or imagine.

o        Like Simon, we have to realise that no matter how good or clever we are, we cannot be good enough to meet God’s standards.

o        But the good news is, Jesus is good enough! And when we trust in Him, He makes us good enough too. Isn’t that good news? Don’t you want to tell other people how good Jesus is?

o        Once you know how good Jesus is to you, you will be like the fishermen — you will leave everything (your own efforts, your achievements, your strengths) because Jesus is better than whatever we have. And we will want to share His love and grace to all your friends too!

8.       Who is one person whom you would like to tell about Jesus?