Jesus Son of God Creed #4

Jesus Son of God

Entrance Craft for Kids: Stick Nativity Puppets http://www.biblestoryprintables.com/BibleCraftsChristmasNativity#.WU8IWYzyvIV

Opening: 5 different tables get a Heavenly Signs card to act out to review quickly the signs from heaven showing Jesus was from heaven to various individuals so that they could be witnesses. You could add more like Jesus’ dedication at the temple or any others you think of. 

Transition: Today we are looking at why it is important to acknowledge that Jesus is the Son of God. Why does it make a difference?

            C. S. Lewis, who was a professor at Cambridge University and once an agnostic, understood this issue clearly.  He writes: "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg ‑ or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse."

Then Lewis adds: "You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

Table Time: Only’s Poster and Worksheet: the Creed says Jesus is the “only BEGOTTEN Son of God” What does BEGOTTEN mean? In Greek it is “monogenes” which means one of a kind or unique; only.

Each table will do one of the verses from the Only’s worksheet and decide what “Only” it explains about Jesus. Then someone will write a list of the Only’s that Jesus fulfills.

Large Group: Jesus is God on Earth as a person – ONE person with TWO natures – He was God’s divinity placed in Mary’s womb to obtain human flesh so that He could become Jesus the man…SO if Jesus IS the Son of God – How does that change your life??

Take Homes:

Magnify Glasses and Wordsearch for kids along with Nativity coloring book from Oriental Trading.