HELP Made in Gods Image! But I need ideas....?

Question

ok. . . I have to take the Sunday school group this Sunday and am kinda needing help or ideas.
So far I have decided on the topic... Made in Gods image (or at least a topic along that line) although am open to completely NEW suggestions!!!

My (possible)plan so far....
Game - Changes - in pairs - each child changes 3 things about the way they look and then turn to face each other and first one to guess all 3 wins.

Activity - Mirror image - take time for each child to look at themselves in a mirror and see how unique they are.

Talk / Discuss - Hats. . Hats do not make a person do what they do ie fireman/nurse/chef etc Its the persons decision to do it. Putting on someones else hat doesn't make us any more able to do their job either.

Please PLEASE help as I rally don't think im getting anywhere with this! IM STUCK!!

Group size about 8 - 12
Ages 8 - 10 ishhh

Answer 1

Uhm well I don't think you got the idea of "made in God's image" right. It doesn't mean you look like him, it means He creates by expanding Himself, so EVERYTHING is made in God's image, we are part of Him, not a separate thing from Him.

Answer 2

I think you should be teaching the children Hebrew or Greek, so they can then learn to read the Bible properly.
Even some Christian theologians would disagree with literal translation of the phrase.
It would be far more constructive and educational to teach them that, if you believe, God gave them the Free Will and Intelligence to think for themselves.
The Bible was written by men, with these qualities. It is their account of how the world was made.
You could also teach them that men like Galileo were threatened with death by the Church for questioning the literal version.
This might sound controversial, but even Jesus was said to have disturbed and angered the scholars of the Temple for speaking his own mind.
If you think this is far to strong for the 8-12 age range, then you under estimate the children you have been empowered to teach.

Answer 3

First off, God bless and Good luck with the kids, wonderful thing to care about kids.
Ok, how about, you go into what makes us 'In God's image'.
Think about it, because there are different ideas on that one.
Is it that we can love? That we can think for ourselves, not just obey, free will? If it is free will, then what will we do with our God given free will? (Might make them behaive for their parents more if they know who gave them that free will :)
We have a spirit, a wonderful spirit, and when our bodies die, that spirit will go to be with God. God is a spirit, we have spirits, made in God's image.

hmmmm......
I like the mirror thing, games are good.
Get some verses on how we are made in his image.

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds human blood, by human beings shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made humankind.

There's alot in genesis, especially the creation story.
It's beautiful.

Bring it in to how we should act, if we are made in the image of God, I think that really ties it in with something visible, so they understand it.

I'm sure whatever you do with be wonderful and will be very helpful, because God is behind it.

Hope all goes well for you and God bless.

Jessica - His will be done...

Answer 4

All gods are invented by man kind, which tend to look like their creators. I bet the kids would love to make a "god" or a "messiah" of themselves out of clay or plastercine

Have fun :-)

Answer 5

You might find this article helpful - on exactly this question:
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/951/


When God created man in His own image,7 He purposed that mankind (both man and woman) would resemble God in certain ways, and share certain of the divine prerogatives. Concerning this we note:

1. It was not a physical likeness, but ...

Although God is spirit (John 4:24) and does not have a body like a man, when He appeared visibly to men according to the Old Testament record, He did so in the form of a human body (e.g. Genesis 18:1-2; 32:24, 28, 30).8 Dr Henry Morris writes: 'There is something about the human body therefore, which is uniquely appropriate to God's manifestation of Himself, and (since God knows all His works from the beginning of the world — Acts 15:18), He must have designed man's body with this in mind. Accordingly He designed it, not like the animals, but with an erect posture, with an upward gazing countenance, capable of facial expressions corresponding with emotional feelings, and with a brain and tongue capable of articulate, symbolic speech.'9, 10

Furthermore, the human body was the form in which God the Son would be incarnated or 'made in the likeness of men' (Philippians 2:7). Thus God made man in that bodily form which He Himself would one day assume — the form in which He wished to reveal Himself.

2. It was a mental likeness.

God endowed man with intellectual ability which was and is far superior to that of any animal. Thus man was given a mind capable of hearing and understanding God's communication with him, emotions capable of responding to God in love and devotion, and a will which enabled him to choose whether or not to obey God. Man was thus equipped, not only to 'love God and obey Him for ever', but also to do God's work on earth — to be His regent and govern the creation in co-operation with his Creator.

This is seen in God's command to Adam and Eve11 that they exercise dominion over the earth and its animals (Genesis 1:26, 28), in Adam's task of cultivating the garden (Genesis 2:15), and in the statement that Adam gave names to certain of the animals on the earth (Genesis 2:19-20).12

Man's intellectual gifts are further seen in his ability to design things and then make them, to appreciate beauty, to compose glorious music, to paint pictures, to write, to count to large numbers and do mathematics, to control and use energy for his own benefit (e.g. fire, electricity, nuclear power), to organize, to reason, to make decisions, to be self-conscious, to laugh at himself, and to think abstractly. All this behaviour is non-instinctive, as distinct from animal behaviour, and as such it is of unlimited variety.

3. It was a moral likeness.

Man only, of all God's creatures, has a spirit or God-consciousness, that is, a capacity for knowing God and holding spiritual communion with Him through prayer, praise, and worship. Since the Fall (Genesis chapter 3), man has had inborn moral awareness of good and evil, or conscience, which he perceives in his spirit.13

Man was made not only negatively innocent (that is, without sin), but positively holy, otherwise Adam could not have had communion with God, who cannot look upon iniquity (Habakkuk 1:13). This is further confirmed by Genesis 1:31, when God affirms that everthing He had made (including man) was 'very good', which would not have been true if man had been morally imperfect.

4. It was a social likeness.14

God's social nature and intrinsic love is seen in the doctrine of the Trinity. God — who is love — created man with a social nature and a need for love. The statement in Genesis 3:8 that 'they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day' suggests that Adam and Eve enjoyed fellowship and communion with God, perhaps on a daily basis.

God also provided for human fellowship and love in a very special and intimate way. Before He created Eve He said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him' (Genesis 2:18). He then made Eve out of a bone taken from Adam (Genesis 2:21-24), a fact which Jesus used in His debate with the Pharisees to uphold the sanctity of marriage and the intimacy of love within the marriage relationship (Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-8).15

Answer 6

You sound like you have a good plan so far...You could also have them draw themselves in the way they think God See's them or they way they see God.....It sounds though you have a whole class planed out that is great.....

Answer 7

Play dough or clay let the children "make someone" in their image.

Answer 8

No, wrong. WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG!

"Image" in this case does NOT REFER TO PHYSICAL IMAGE!

You are teaching IDOLATRY!

Go to your minister and ask for guidance as to what "image" means in this case.

Answer 9

explanation of God having hands and a face like we do..:-)