Home Connection | Week of 9/24

KINDER - 4th GRADE

LESSON 1: THE PLAN TO STOP PAUL (Acts 23)

MEMORY VERSE: Philippians 1:20-21 “My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all courage, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” (CSB) Note: The song is only the underlined part of the verse.

FAMILY DISCUSSION GUIDE

• Why do you think some people oppose the gospel?

• What are you willing to risk to tell people about Jesus? Why?

• Can anything stop God’s plan? (See Job 42:2.) How does that encourage you to trust and obey Him?

5th GRADE

BIBLE TIME PERIOD: SLAVERY AND EXODUS (Exodus 12-14)

MEMORY VERSE: Romans 3:23-24

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ.”

FAMILY DISCUSSION GUIDE

• How do each of these aspects of the Passover point us to Jesus and our redemption?

  • The Passover lamb

  • Blood on the doorposts

  • The Israelites escaped God’s judgment on the Egyptians

• How did God lead His people out of Egypt in the day and in the night?

• What does God say the Egyptians will see when He parts the Red Sea for the Israelites?