Lesso 8 75 Paul Teaches About Spiritual Gifts 1 Corithias 12:4-27 First- ad secod-graders are eager ad ready to lear ew thigs, ad as they lear ew thigs they ofte come across ew abilities, gifts, ad talets. They re aturally excited to share their ew discoveries with others. Use this lesso to help kids kow that God wats them to use their special gifts to serve him. LESSON WHAT CHILDREN DO SUPPLIES EASY PREP Bible Poit God gives us gifts to serve him. 1 Gettig Started 2 Bible Exploratio A Special Gift (about 10 mi.) Ope ad share a gift, ad discuss what it s like to receive special gifts. A Special Letter (about 20 mi.) Ope letters ad lear what Paul wrote i his letter about spiritual gifts. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. gift-wrapped box cotaiig 1 sticker per child Bibles, 1 evelope per child, 1 photocopy per child of the Special Delivery hadout (at the ed of the lesso), maskig tape, 1 self-stick bow per child, 1 spool of ribbo Place each hadout i a evelope ad seal it. Write kids ames o the evelopes, 1 per child. Use the maskig tape to make a large square o the floor i which all the childre ca stad. Key Verse For we are God s workmaship, created i Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared i advace for us to do (Ephesias 2:10). Weavig Faith Ito Life Kids will use their special gifts to serve God. Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 8 Sprig Quarter
76 LESSON WHAT CHILDREN DO SUPPLIES EASY PREP 3 Weavig Faith Ito Life All for Oe (about 20 mi.) Cosider what gifts God has give them ad how those gifts ca be used to serve God. Mix Well ad Serve (about 10 mi.) Lear the Key Verse, ad work together to make sack mix. My Bible Fu, extra-large sheet of paper, markers, scissors, glue Bible, sack-mix igrediets, paper cups, large bowl, mixig spoo, atibacterial gel (optioal) Tear out the Lesso 8 pages from each My Bible Fu studet book. Cut out a child-sized body shape from the extra-large sheet of paper. Choose at least 6 differet igrediets for the sack mix, such as dried fruit, chocolate chips, graola, dried seeds, jelly beas, ad pretzels. 4 Daily Challeges (about 5 mi.) Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Fu Lastig Impressios Weavig Faith at Home (about 2 mi.) Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Sprig Quarter Lesso 8 Grades 1 & 2
77 Paul Teaches About Spiritual Gifts 1 Corithias 12:4-27 BIBLe BACKGROUND FOR LEADERS Key Poits o a Key Passage Paul begis today s passage with a key poit about spiritual gifts (verses 4-7): They are diverse, but they are uified because they come from the same God. There are may differet gifts, but the same God is workig through all of them. Ad they all are for a commo purpose: the good of the church. Gifts From God The questio may arise, What is the differece betwee spiritual gifts ad atural talets? The differece betwee spiritual gifts ad atural ability may ot have bee of cocer to Paul. Every good thig, every gift comes from God. What cocered Paul was that people exercise the gifts the Holy Spirit gave them ad use them to build up God s church. iteded for us i his church! That s how we ll be most fulfilled ad how we ll work together with other Christias to further God s kigdom o earth. The Jesus Coectio Your spiritual gifts are God-give opportuities to be like Jesus ad build up Jesus body. Have you take time to discover your spiritual gifts? Have you take time to develop ad refie your gifts? Complete a spiritual gifts ivetory or ask some Christias who kow you well to tell you what spiritual gifts they see i you. Ask God what your gifts might be. You ca write your prayer here. May Gifts, Oe Body I verses 12-27, Paul itroduces to the Corithias the cocept that the church is like a body, more specifically the body of Christ. Paul s message is a great equalizer: People with gifts that seem isigificat are actually much more importat tha they may thik, ad people with gifts that seem more spectacular are t ay more importat tha ayoe else. A sigificat fact to ote is foud i verse 18: God has arraged the parts i the body, every oe of them, just as he wated them to be. Buildig God s Kigdom I a body, if oe part is hurtig, the other parts feel the hurt. Ad if oe part feels great, it makes all of the body feel better. That s how God wats the church to be! God gives differet gifts for the buildig up of the body of Christ. We re all part of that body, ad God wats us to use the gifts he s give us to fill the place Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 8 Sprig Quarter
78 GETTING STARTED A Special Gift Supplies gift-wrapped box cotaiig 1 sticker per child A Special Gift What You ll Do Welcome kids warmly as they arrive, ad ask them how their week wet. Gather everyoe i a circle, ad place the wrapped box i the middle of the circle. Ask: What do you thik is i this box? What s it like to look at a gift box ad woder what s iside? What s it like whe you give or get a special gift? Tell about the best gift ayoe s ever give you. Tell about a gift you were excited to give to someoe else. Say: Let s see what s iside the box. A Special Letter Supplies Bibles 1 evelope per child 1 photocopy per child of the Special Delivery hadout (at the ed of the lesso) maskig tape 1 self-stick bow per child 1 spool of ribbo A Special Letter Easy Prep Place each hadout i a evelope ad seal it. Write kids ames o the evelopes, 1 per child. Use the maskig tape to make a large square o the floor i which all the childre ca stad. Allow childre to uwrap the box ad share the stickers they fid iside. Say: It s always fu to give ad get gifts. Just as I gave you a special gift to share, God gives Christias special gifts to use for him. Today we re goig to lear what Paul taught about spiritual gifts. He taught that GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. 2 BIBLE EXPLORATION A Special Letter What You ll Do Say: I have a special delivery for each of you a letter that s just for you. Give each child his or her evelope. The say: There s a importat message i your evelope. Go ahead ad ope it ow. Allow time. The ivite a child to read the special message. Say: This letter is true. Poit to oe child, ad say: God gives you special gifts! The poit to aother child ad say: He gives you special gifts, too. Poit to several other kids ad the across the whole group. God gives every sigle oe of you gifts. Ope your Bible to 1 Corithias 12:4-27, ad show kids the passage. Distribute Bibles ad help kids fid the verses i their ow Bibles. Say: Some of the Bible was writte i Sprig Quarter Lesso 8 Grades 1 & 2
79 letters from people called apostles. Apostles were people who kew ad followed Jesus, ad oe of those apostles was amed Paul. Paul wrote some letters to the church i a city called Corith. I oe of those letters, he taught the people i Corith that GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. Let s read what he said about gifts. Read aloud 1 Corithias 12:4-6. Say: Paul said that ot everyoe has the same gifts, but all gifts are importat. Ad whe Paul talks about gifts, he meas thigs a perso is good at doig or sayig to serve God. Tell a fried somethig you kow you re especially good at. Allow time. The let several kids share with the whole group. Say: It s great to hear thigs you re good at. Paul also wated the people to kow why God gives people those gifts. Let s look at Paul s letter i the Bible to fid out why. Show kids 1 Corithias 12:4-27 agai. Say: Paul said that GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. Thik about thigs you re good at. Pause. It s great to have those gifts, but Paul says those gifts are t just for fu. God gives them to us for a importat reaso. He wats us to use them for good to serve him. Have the kids stad. The ame some body parts ad ecourage kids to hold up or shake the amed body parts. Say: Our gifts are kid of like body parts. Our arms ad legs ad ears work together to help us do importat thigs. I the church, all the differet gifts help us work together to do importat thigs to serve God. Show kids the self-stick gift bows. Begi placig oe bow o top of each child s head. Cotiue stickig bows o studets as you talk. Say: Let s preted these gift bows are like God s gifts to us. God gives some Christias the gift of wisdom which meas those people are really good at usig what they kow to make good decisios. God gives other Christias the gift of faith which meas they have really strog beliefs that God s there all the time eve i hard times. He gives other Christias other gifts. God gives special gifts to every perso who believes i him. Whe each child has a bow o his or her head, stick a bow o your ow head. The direct kids to the square you taped o the floor. Help kids stad together iside the square. After all the kids are stadig iside the square, wrap the log ribbo aroud the group at waist level, step iside the ribbo, ad tie a bow. Say: Preted this square o the floor is oe great big gift box. Look at all the gifts iside this gift box! GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. Ad we ca all work together to serve God! Let s thik about how God might wat all of us to serve him with our gifts. Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 8 Sprig Quarter
80 Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. Ask: What were you thikig whe I wrapped us all up i our big gift box? Tell about a gift you or someoe you kow has that ca be used to serve God. What ca you do this week to serve God? Say: Paul wrote i his letter about how GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. His letter helps us remember that everyoe who believes i Jesus has special gifts, ad all the gifts are importat, like the parts of our bodies. This week, let s look for ways to serve God with our special gifts. 3 WEAVING FAITH INTO LIFE All for Oe Supplies My Bible Fu extra-large sheet of paper markers scissors glue All for Oe Easy Prep Tear out the Lesso 8 pages from each My Bible Fu studet book. Cut out a child-sized body shape from the extra-large sheet of paper. All for Oe What You ll Do Put kids i groups of three. The say: We re learig today that GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. Ad we ca use those gifts to work like oe body with differet parts. Let s thik about how we ca all work together like parts of a body. Show kids the paper body outlie. Walk aroud the room, askig each child to tear off a part of the body. Be sure to keep a piece for yourself as well. Distribute markers. Ask kids to write their ames o their pieces of paper. Say: Sped a few miutes i your groups talkig about special gifts God may have give each of you. The thik of a way you ll each use oe of your ow gifts to serve God this week. Oce you ve each thought of your ow idea, write or draw it o your piece of our paper body. For example, maybe you ca sig, ad you wat to serve God by sigig praise sogs this week. Or if you have a bright smile, you could smile at someoe who feels dow. Give groups several miutes to thik ad work. As they re workig, walk aroud ad help groups idetify gifts ad ways to use those gifts to serve God. Help them be as specific as possible. Take a few momets to write dow a way you ll use your ow spiritual gift to serve God this week. The whe groups have fiished, brig everyoe back together ad have them sit i a circle o the floor. Say: Now we re goig to take turs talkig about our gifts ad the ways we re goig to serve God this week. Sprig Quarter Lesso 8 Grades 1 & 2
81 Place your piece of paper o the floor as you share with kids your ow gift ad the way you re goig to serve God this week. The have childre take turs addig their papers to yours, assemblig the body like a puzzle, as they share about their gifts ad commitmets. Whe the puzzle is complete, lead the group i a roud of applause. The distribute glue ad the Lesso 8 My Bible Fu pages. Have each perso take his or her puzzle piece ad glue it i the Doig My Part sectio of his or her ow My Bible Fu page. Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. Ask: What do you thik about beig a importat part of this body? What s good about people havig differet special gifts? What might you do the same or differetly ow that you kow GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM? Say: Just as Paul said i his letter, whe we kow ad love Jesus, we re all i the same family of Christias. Ad i that family of Christias, GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. Let s remember to use those gifts to serve God this week. Mix Well ad Serve What You ll Do Have kids clea their hads. The ope your Bible to Ephesias 2:10, ad show it to kids. Say: Our Key Verse says: For we are God s workmaship, created i Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared i advace for us to do (Ephesias 2:10). Say: That meas God made each of us just as we are, ad he wats us to serve him. Have the childre repeat the verse with you several times. Say: God gives people differet gifts so we ca do good works for him. Let s make some yummy sack mix to celebrate the may woderful talets God gives us! Set out cups of separate sack-mix igrediets. Gather kids aroud a table, ad had out a cup of igrediets to each child. The pass a large bowl aroud the table, havig kids pour their igrediets ito the bowl oe at a time. Remid kids to hold o to their cups so they ca use them to eat the sack. After all the igrediets are i the bowl, have kids take turs usig the mixig spoo to stir the igrediets together. Serve the sack mix i kids cups. Pray: Dear Lord, thak you for helpig us uderstad how importat it is to work together to serve you with our may talets. Help us remember that everyoe s Mix Well ad Serve Supplies Bible sack-mix igrediets paper cups large bowl mixig spoo atibacterial gel (optioal)! ALLERGY ALERT Mix Well ad Serve Easy Prep Choose at least 6 differet igrediets for the sack mix, such as dried fruit, chocolate chips, graola, dried seeds, jelly beas, ad pretzels. Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 8 Sprig Quarter
82 talet is woderful ad importat whe it comes to servig you! I Jesus ame, ame. The let kids eat. Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. Ask: How are your gifts like or ulike the differet igrediets for this recipe? What kids of good works ca you do with your gifts? Why do you thik it s importat to serve God? Say: Like the differet igrediets i our sack, Paul said i his letter that GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. Ad just as we worked together to make the sack mix, whe we all use our differet gifts to serve Jesus, we ca do great thigs for him. 4 LASTING IMPRESSIONS Daily Challeges Supplies My Bible Fu Daily Challeges What You ll Do Say: Let s thik about how GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM. As this week s Daily Challege, try to follow through o usig the gift you drew o your puzzle piece that you glued o your My Bible Fu page. Tell the kids how you ll use your gift this week. Kids will be more iclied to follow through o their commitmets whe they see you doig the same. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: What s a practical way you re goig to do your Daily Challege? Iclude a time, a place, ad other ideas. Say: You re special, ad so are the gifts God gave you. Remember this week that GOD GIVES US GIFTS TO SERVE HIM, ad use those gifts for God by followig through o our Daily Challege. Sprig Quarter Lesso 8 Grades 1 & 2
83 Weavig Faith at Home Ecourage kids to talk with their parets about the Daily Challeges they chose ad what they leared about how God gives us gifts to serve him. Kids ca also do the activities i the HomeCoect sectio of their My Bible Fu pages with their families. Talk to your Director about emailig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Take a couple of miutes to pray with your kids, thakig God for the gifts he gives us. The have kids pair up ad quickly each share a gift. Give kids a momet to siletly pray for their parters. The close the prayer. Pray: God, we re so glad you made us how you did. We wat to use our gifts to serve you. Help us do that this week. I Jesus ame, ame. Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 8 Sprig Quarter
84 Special Delivery Art Credit: Ala Fli! OK TO COPY Sprig Quarter Lesso 8 Grades 1 & 2