My twenty cents keeps moving! - Children's Bible Study Lesson on The Church is the Body of Christ

Aug. 23, 2006

Children's Bible Study Lesson on The Church is the Body of Christ

Our pastor is doing a 6 week series on "We are the body" leading up to our revival, so tonight I taught the same theme to the kids. It was fun, so I am sharing it here in case someone else can use it.

The Body of Christ
Supplies needed:

Bible
Paper
Glue
Scissors
M & M's
Twister game (optional)
Poster Board or Construction Paper
Markers

WARM-UP Activity
We started with a question game. Thought-provoking questions, like,

Would you rather be deaf or blind?
Would you rather lose your sense of smell or taste?
Would you rather lose an arm or a leg?

and so on. Use your imagination. I tried to make them all body related and I kept it short.

Bible Study
This led us into a discussion about needing all of our parts. Then we read Romans 12:4-5 and talked about the image of the church as the body. Then I reminded them that even though they are children, they have something to contribute (we need all body parts, even our pinkies and little toes.) I read 1 Timothy 4:12 and reminded them that Paul said the young could be an example to all believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. (We talked about each of these and how they ould be an example in speech, life, etc)

Art Activity
I gave each child a square piece of poster board (you could use any paper you have handy) and markers. I assigned a body part to each one. (We had 7 kids so it worked ok. For more, you could make more than one person or you could work in pairs or teams) Spenser drew the head, Monica drew the body, Taylor drew an arm, etc. The youngest girl is only 6 so she drew a heart which we later added to the torso.

When we put them altogether we made what turned out to be a pretty good person.

Sorry for the phone picture-- I didn't have my good camera with me.

Puzzle
As they finished their pictures, I gave them a puzzle to put together. (I made it harder fo the older ones by mixing up 3 copies and making them work on all 3.) I printed this picture on card stock and printed this puzzle template on the back. (Then cut it out for them to put together) We glued it to construction paper when we finished.

Closing
I gave them each a handful of M & M's and we talked about how M&M's are like Christians. They are different on the outside, but all the same inside. Then we played Twister and twisted our body parts in all kinds of fun ways.

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Aug. 23, 2006 - Guess what?

Posted by kampsplete

I finally got tagged tonight! Guess what else? I chose you to pass the tag on to. You don't have to do it. I forgot to check first and see if you have a "no tag zone". If you do, just disregard this message. If you want to do it, check out my blog for the questions.

I hope you're doing well....we start our school the day after Labor Day. I'm getting excited...Talk to you soon...off to tag Jusy!

Love, Kathy

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Aug. 24, 2006 - Great idea

Posted by susan

Our Pastor spoke on the Body last week. He is doing a series on the Community Matters. I am going to pass along your idea. Thanks. Great picture too.

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