Rock Solid: What Your Child Learned in Church Today, May 24

BIBLE LESSON: The Beatitudes Matthew 5:7-9

Memory Verse: "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves." Philippians 2:3 NIV

Main Point: I will care about others more than myself!


Summary of Today's Lesson: Today, the children continued exploring the Beatitudes. In this second of three lessons, the children discovered that spiritual character goes beyond just being a Christian. It means we must care about others even more than ourselves.


Training Up a Child Homework:
1. MEMORY VERSE: Work with your child on this week's Memory Verse, Philippians 2:3. Practice this verse several times with your child during the week. This will not only help them remember the verse, it will also help to reinforce what they learned during class.

2. Suggested Parent/Child Activity: Having spiritual character means to care about others more than yourself. Have you child choose one of the following activities for you to do, and then you choose one for your child to do. The object is for both of you to do whatever the other picked, without grumbling or complaining. You can also come up with your own activities. 1. Sweep the garage and put everything in place 2. Weed the front yard 3. Treat the other person to an ice cream cone with your own money 4. Draw and color a portrait of the other person 5. Clean the other person's room 6. Read a book to the other person 7. Give the other person a massage 8. Other _______

3. Suggested Daily Prayer: Dear God, let us have the kind of character that considers other people better than ourselves. We are all wonderfully made in your image, to be your children. Thank you Lord for the life you gave to us. Help others see Jesus alive in each one of us by living lives that are humble, generous, honest, and obedient. Amen.

4. Bible Readings: Read Matthew 5:1-9 with your child to review the Beatitudes we've studies over the past two weeks. Talk with them about what each of these mean. Then read about Abigail in 1 Samuel 25:1-35. Talk about how Abigail was a peacemaker with your child. Ask your child what it means to be a peacemaker and what could they do as a peacemaker.

In His Love, Cathy