SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2022THIS SUNDAY, August 7th is Promotion Sunday! All of our children will move up to the next age/grade level. NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL YEAR AND NEW CLASSES! Register your child, so we can prepare a place in one of our Sunday classrooms! ****CHANGE FOR THE NEW 2022-2023 SUNDAY SCHOOL YEAR!**** Check in Opens at 9:15AM Sunday School Starts at 9:30AM STARTING THIS SUNDAY AUGUST 7th - Please be on time, After 9:35 AM, please worship together in the Family Worship Room. We ask that you attend the adult worship service with your little one or visit our Family Worship Room. We do not want to interrupt the learning, loving, and living out of God's Love and Word each Sunday. We are grateful for the partnership with our parents. Thank you for your continued support and for entrusting us with your child each Sunday morning as we worship together! UNIT 6 | SESSION 1 THE PEOPLE DIDN’T GO INTO THE LAND NUMBERS 13–14 CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus. The Israelites did not obey God because they did not trust Him. Jesus always trusted God. When we trust in Jesus, God forgives our sin. BIBLE STORY VIDEO FOR 8.7.22 BIBLE VERSE SONG FOR AUGUST This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit. Unit 6, Session 1
The People Didn’t Go Into the Land (Numbers 13–14) Dear families, If you’ve ever bought a house, you likely know that even the “most perfect” house really isn’t perfect. There seems to always be some compromise that must be made: location, yard size, location of a bathroom, school district, price, and so forth. The choice is then ours to make: do we live with the compromises we need to make, or do we pass on the house—no matter how perfect it is in other ways—and keep looking? When the Israelites reached the border of the land of Abraham and their ancestors, they sent in twelve men to scout the territory. The report was glowing: The land was amazing—plenty of room and abundant crops. It was perfect in almost every way. There was a concern, and it was a big one: the people living there were scary-big. Think back to that house you had fallen in love with. You were already imagining what it would be like to live in it. You were deciding where your furniture would go. It seemed too good to be true. But then, you discovered that imperfection, and your hopes and dreams came crashing down. Now magnify that many times over, and you can begin to relate with what the Israelites must have felt like in that moment. Now where would they go? What would they do? The tragedy of this account is not found in what the people felt in that moment; rather, it is found in their failure to recognize that the land was indeed perfect in every way. There was no drawback or compromise. The people living there were inconsequential. Why? Because this was the land of promise—of God’s promise. The same God who had promised this land to them and to their ancestors before them was the same God who had revealed His infinite power in rescuing them from the Egyptians. He was the same God who was with them at that moment. Did they believe the people were too big, or did they believe God was too small? Joshua, Caleb, and Moses would try to plead with the people to trust in God, but the people refused. Instead of entering the land in faith, they turned from the land in fear. Not one of the adults of that generation, except Joshua and Caleb, would step foot into that land. Instead, they were forced to wander in the wilderness of judgment because of their rebellion against God. That is the tragedy of this account. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
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