Creative ideas/activities on how to teach it for Bible School.
2006-07-13 17:24:20 · 11 answers · asked by Red Fox 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The story of Joseph, from the time he was 17 to the time he was second to Pharaoh. I highly recommend this story especially for children because so many children can identify with it, and secretly everything we need to know about Jesus is paralleled in this story (well, much is anyway). Joseph begins as a yongster who is not liked by most of his brothers because they are gealous that his father loves him so much, also as Rachel was favored. So they nearly kill him but then they sell him to merchants who deliver him to Egypt. There is is wrongly accused and put into prison, and becomes head of the prisioners. Time does not permit me to go into most details, but then Joseph is found to be able to interpret the Pharaohs dream and he is made second to Pharaoh and is taken throughout all the land of Egypt. It gets very interesting when his brothers come to get food from Pharaoh and they can not recognize Joseph, so Joseph messes with them, and they are greatly fearful being accused of stealing Josephs gold cup, ect... (long story); I cry every time I come to a few points in this story. Certainly one of the greatest stories ever written, and one of the oldest. I believe other stories have been patterned after this one. See book of Genesis.
Dave
2006-07-13 17:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, promote children with faith. The Bible has no STORIES. It is a history book. We shoot ourselves in the foot by saying, "Come kids let's learn about the story of Noah." Then we show them that stupid little ark with animals bursting out that would sink in less than a split second. How is that supposed to strengthen their faith. Show them pictures of what the real ark looked like, give them the amount of animals that were really on the ark... NO insects...only animals with the breath of life in their nostrils... No fish either... that's a no brainer. Don't teach that it just rained 40 days and nights, remember the fountains of the deep breaking open. Show them the geologic layers all over the earth (sedimentary rock =used to be mud) laid down by water all over the earth.
This will not only teach them but strengthen their faith. See the site below for some excellent school books teaching true history
2006-07-13 17:31:51 · answer #2 · answered by musingaloud 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some reason the story of Solomon with the baby and the two women claiming they were the mother always interested me when I was a child. I don't know if it was because I was creeped out because he was going to cut the baby in half or because I wanted kids but I always read that part in my kiddy bible book. My mom taught a class on David and Goliath and drew a life size-ish picture of Goliath so the kids could see how tall he would be.
2006-07-13 17:42:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a child, I read revelation because I thought it was the most relevant to current times.
But I don't know that the standard child would be able to appreciate it; I always liked that chapters that dealt with angels and the various services the performed for god. I think that in order to have an understanding of a creator, we should look at some of his other creations.
2006-07-13 17:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by symmetryorigin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
AKA(by a famous preacher I once heard)
My shack, Your shack and to-bed-we-go
You could do a skit with a Nebuchadnezzar, and the three guys and a guard and show the guard getting overcome by the flames and then the angel/Christ person joins the three in the fiery furnace and delivers them- King Neb is amazed and falls down to worship!
2006-07-13 17:41:10 · answer #5 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David and Galioth. How such a small child could save so many and good always conquers evil. Do a play it always worked for me. Also have some coloring things like that. How old are the kids?
2006-07-13 17:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by whitetrashwithmoney 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm, I loved the story of Ruth..she was a better person than I could ever be..so brave and humble...I aspire to have such courage and humililty...just tell the stories..as a kid I loved it when the teacher just read it to me in an exciting voice....hope that helps
2006-07-13 18:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by Idahopotatoe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what's your accepted color? answer: eco-friendly. considering i did not get to respond to your bible question. my accepted bible tale must be the tale of samson. this dude positive loved the overseas females. this tale brings up many questions. [a million] became he repulsed by technique of the hebrew females ? [2] did he like the overseas females better because, they did no longer have the sexual draw close united statesthat hebrew females had ? i ought to write a e book on the psychology of samson.
2016-12-01 06:17:33 · answer #8 · answered by kirchoff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David and Goliath is always good, it shows that even the little guy(perfect for kids), as long as they've got God can do anything.
2006-07-13 17:28:43 · answer #9 · answered by Lion's Blessing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the feeding of 5000
2006-07-13 17:30:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋