![]() I began this project eight years ago when my father’s death left a raw, open wound. After his two suicide attempts, the dynamic changed and I became the parent, he became the child. Our relationship was a complex two-step and I was never quite sure who was leading. It is only now, eight years after his death that I have come to understand how much my sense of “normal” was colored by my dad’s dysfunctional past. He was my first love … the man against whom I measured all others. This lost boy became my dad and I was his only child. Later, when he was much older, he tried to kill himself…and when it didn’t work the first time…he tried again. When he was six, his mother left him on the steps of the orphanage. For some friendly competition, make a second set of envelopes and index cards and divide the kids into teams to race each other and see who can correctly rearrange the cards into the envelopes the quickest!Įach of Paul’s letters has many things to teach us, and this brief summary doesn’t even scratch the surface! Be sure to read and study Paul’s letters yourself so you can more effectively teach them to the kids in your children’s church.When he was five, his daddy was hanged for murder. Randomly place the index cards inside the envelopes and have the children in your Sunday school class work together to place the cards in their correct envelopes, so they match the order found in the Bible. Then, write the name of one of Paul’s letters on each index card until you have a card for each book. To help the kids in your children’s church learn the order of Paul’s Letters, have them play the game below!įor this game, you’ll need 13 envelopes and 13 index cards. You can use this letter as an example to teach the kids in your Sunday school class how circumstances shouldn’t define their joy but that true joy comes from having a personal friendship with the Lord Jesus.įor lessons you can use to teach children about Paul and his life, check out God’s Church Expands: The Ministry of Paul lesson series available from CEF Press ®. Despite the circumstances he was surrounded by, Paul was filled with joy as he wrote. Several of Paul’s letters were written while he was in jail, including Philippians. Ephesians shows God’s design for the Church and how believers have power to live for Him because of Christ’s resurrection. Paul then wrote 2 nd Corinthians with great joy, because the Corinthians had acted upon his first letter! Galatians was written to the Jewish believers to explain that salvation and growth through the Holy Spirit is through Christ alone, not by doing things according to Jewish Law. He ends this letter by challenging believers to give their lives to God completely and explains how a person fully given to God will treat others.ġ st Corinthians was written to the Christians in Corinth to help them deal with their many struggles. Paul encourages us to count on God’s constant care, direction, and perfect love. Romans teaches how Jesus made the ultimate payment for our sin, and that believers can have victory over sin. Take time to present the Gospel to the children and give those who have never believed in Jesus as their Savior the opportunity to talk with you about that. It shows how all have sinned, that God has provided a way for us to be justified, and that we can be made righteous through faith by accepting what Jesus did for us through His death and resurrection. The book of Romans, written to the believers in Rome, presents the Gospel in great detail. Every word in these letters was written at the direction of the Holy Spirit and is just as applicable today as it was 2,000 years ago. Paul may not have known that the letters he was writing would be saved and read by Christians 2,000 years later, but the Holy Spirit did. Most of Paul’s letters were written to churches, but the last four were written to individual men. We know for sure that Paul wrote at least 13 letters which are now books in the Bible-that’s almost half of the New Testament books! Because we know Paul wrote Romans through Philemon, we included them in the division of Paul’s Letters. So far in the New Testament we’ve looked at the Gospel and Church History divisions. Let’s look at Paul’s Letters and how you can teach them to the kids in your Sunday school class! We divide these letters into two divisions-Paul’s Letters and Other Letters. The New Testament includes some very special letters, or epistles. Maybe some of the children you teach have received or written letters before. Did you have a pen pal growing up? It’s exciting to receive a personal letter in the mail.
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