Opening:
Have index cards on each table and as a group write down your top 3 things a
Christian needs to believe
Groups have Creeds so
all members are on the same page - ask for examples from groups they have been in.
Example: Girl Scouts
1. To serve God and my country
2. Help people at all times
3. Live by the GS Laws
Share table lists
Transition:
So why are creeds important? We need to know what our Faith is in and all
believe in the same thing to keep the church pure and true to Christ.
Faith T-Chart on white
board or poster board
Faith on top with Knowledge on
bottom left ant Experience on bottom right
1. Knowledge is what we know with our mind – There is
a God but James 2:19
2. Experience is what we experience with our senses –
This becomes our testimony John 20:29
3. These result in what our Faith is in – Believe not
just IN God but believe GOD – Faith Hebrews 11:1
Nicene Creed
1st
written in 325 AD in Nicea in a meeting called by the Emperor Constantine (this
was before the NT was even finalized) and then revised in 381 AD in
Constantinople
Table Time:
Creeds in the Bible
Have verse cards on
each table and as a group write down the must-beliefs from each on a sheet of
paper
Jews used the Shema – Deuteronomy
6:4-9
Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 8:6 and 1
Timothy 3:16
Have Believe color
sheets for the younger children
Large Group Time: Why Study the Creed?
Peter
warns us – 2 Peter 2:1-2
Paul
warns us – Romans 16:17
Jesus
warns us – Matthew 24:23-24
Take Homes
Tetris Creed (color before making
copy) http://looktohimandberadiant.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-creed-tetris.html
Journals – What do you believe about
God, about Jesus, about the Holy Spirit and about the church?
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