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Doodle Bible School
Lesson 12
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1. What is the theme of Joshua 14-19?
2. Can you doodle the picture clue?
3. What priest helped Joshua divide the land? (14:1)
4. Can you quote the memory verse?
5. Who commanded that the land be divided by lot? (14:2)
6. How many tribes settled on the west side of the Jordan? (14:2)
7. How many tribes settled on the east side of the Jordan? (14:3)
8. What two tribes represented Joseph? (14:4)
9. What did the tribe of Levi receive as their inheritance? (14:4)
10. What does it mean to cast lots? Have you ever done it?
Application Sermon Questions
Lesson 12
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1. What was the title of this lesson?
2. What was the first point made within this lesson? (Joshua 14:7)
3. What was the second point made within this lesson? (Joshua 14:10)
4. What was the third point made within this lesson? (Joshua 14:12)
5. Who were the Anakim? (Joshua 14:12)
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Home Church Worship Guide – Joshua 14-19
Scripture Explains Itself!
Lesson 12
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1. Where are we buried with Christ? (Romans 6:4)
2. From where are we raised into newness of life? (Romans 6:4)
3. What is the order of the three steps that lead to newness of life? (Romans 6:3-4)
Reading Assignment
Lesson 12
Asking the Question: Why? (Part 1)
As I said in the lasHere we are at another sidebar, I guess you could call it, or possibly a detour. So far, we have looked at “Conversion: Sin, Sacrifice, and Self-discipline,” “Mentally Checked Out or Still Engaged?” “Investment: Taking Ownership of Their Place Within the Church,” “Instilling Biblical Knowledge,” and “Dependence: Developing Loyalty to the Spiritual Network.” This time, I want to share some conversations I have had that involve the question, “Why?”
Both of my sons are now adults. Both of them have struggled in various ways, like other kids and, now, men. They were reared (proper English for raised—what we say in Arkansas) to go to church Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night. They were trained to sit still, listen, and participate in worship. They were taught the same Bible stories and children’s songs as all of their friends. In those ways, they were no different than the average child growing up in America in a family that believed in and worshipped God. So, I asked them some questions regarding “Keeping the Faith.”
First, I asked Bryson, my oldest son (who now has a son of his own), “What has kept you in the Church? I keep reading things about the way we teach Bible stories in children’s classes and how it doesn’t work, but I wonder why it worked with you and Gabriel. What was different?” (I know, I know… the word why isn’t in the actual question part.)
His answer was: “I would say that having a personal relationship with God is what has kept me seeking a closer relationship with Him and I think the understanding that loving the Church (the bride of Christ) is part of loving God is what has kept me from giving up when things have gotten tough.”
So, basically, his two thoughts were:
1) Having a personal relationship with God
2) Loving the Church is part of loving God
Which means, we need to teach children how to have a personal relationship with God along with how and why to love the Church. If we just teach Bible stories, it’s likely that they will learn about God, but not develop a personal relationship with Him. That personal relationship, according to Bryson, is what gives an individual the desire to keep searching for God, keep seeking God’s ways, keep developing a deeper faith and closer relationship with God. (Relationship with God and the Church. Does this sound anything like the end of the lesson on “Dependence: Developing Loyalty to the Spiritual Network”?)
His second point involves the Church. Our children need to see us serve the Lord by truly loving His Church. How does that happen? It starts with us being with our spiritual family as often as we possibly can be with them. This means more than at the church building at designated times. If we follow the example of the early Church in Acts 2, this means devoting ourselves to learning, fellowshipping, eating meals together (including the Lord’s Supper), praying, sharing our possessions, and worshipping/praising God together. It means living life together—every day. As you read your Bible, notice the different ways that we are told to take care of the Church, the bride of Christ, the believers, brothers and sisters. It is a common theme starting in the book of Acts and continuing through the rest of the New Testament. The more we love God and obey Him, the more we will practice serving the Church and learning to love His Church.
Also, take note what Bryson says has kept him “from giving up when things have gotten tough”—understanding that loving the Church is part of loving God. What do you think? Does it help you to know that part of loving God and developing your relationship with Him has to do with loving the Church? There are times when certain individuals in our Church family can make it very difficult to love them, but realizing Who we serve and Who we belong to and how we can demonstrate our love for Him makes a huge difference in keeping the faith. Can you see the connection there? There are times when members of the Church are cruel, unkind, unloving and we want to throw up our hands and walk away. But…God’s love is constant and He demonstrates His love by sending another brother or sister who practices what Jesus taught. Because of Jesus and His followers, we are renewed and able to keep going, keep loving God, and keep loving the Lord’s Church.
Whenever I started this lesson, I intended to make it one lesson and move back into the book “To Keep the Faith,” however, my passionate side got the best of me and I wrote more on my conversation with Bryson than I meant to do. Because of this, we will have a part 2 for “Asking the Question: Why?” Until then, keep on being the wonderful Homemaker Hero who draws others to the Lord!
NOTE: If you missed the first nine lessons in this series, you can go here (lesson 1), here (lesson 2), here (lesson3), here (lesson 4), here (lesson 5), here (lesson 6), here (lesson 7), here (lesson 8), here (lesson 9), here (lesson 10) and here (lesson 11) to catch up.
To Keep the Faith Questions
Lesson 12
1. What was the first part of Bryson’s answer to the question about what has kept him in the Church?
2. The answer to question 1 can do what four things?
3. What was the second part of Bryson’s answer to the question?
4. What example was given to demonstrate how to do this?
5. As a Homemaker Hero, what must you teach your children about having a relationship with God and the Church? (If this question sound familiar, it is the same as the last question of lesson 11. Has your answer changed any? There can be more than one way to help your children develop this relationship.)