This Week in NewLife Kids

Altitude – Elementary

Main Point:  As A Follower Of Christ, I Will Choose What Is Good!

Bible Story:  Jesus teaches about purity.  (Matthew 5:8)

**Bible Verse:  “God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.”  Matthew 5:8 (NLT)

Family activity

Gather some 100% pure juice that your children love to drink and some other liquid and powdered ingredients that you can spare. Examples: coffee grounds, tea leaves or grounds, powdered drink mix, pepper, salt, powdered herbs, milk, salsa, marinara sauce, jelly or preserves, syrup, tabasco sauce. Have the entire family taste the pure juice. Tell them that this juice is pure and delicious just like it is, but what if we start adding things to it? Then, in a clear glass have family members start adding the other ingredients to the juice until it is a gross and disgusting mixture.

Tell your family that just like this drink was tastier and better for you when it was pure, our lives will be better when we are pure. We can be pure by making sure that we don’t mix into our lives bad things that God doesn’t want us to do and that we do mix in the good things that God does want us to do.

Some of the good ingredients that God wants us to mix in our lives every day are praying and reading the Bible. God also wants us to worship Him at church every week and share about Him to our friends. These actions help us to be pure and hear from God about other things that He wants us to do. Any activity that would interfere with us doing these things every day, is something we need to avoid or do at a time when it won’t stop us from doing these things.

Talk with your family about ways that you can all help each other to keep your lives pure by choosing to do what God wants and not letting anything interfere with praying and reading the Bible every day, and going to church each week.

 

Altitude Jr. – Pre-K and Toddlers

Main Point: I Will Do What Is Right!

Bible Lesson: David Spares Saul’s Life (1 Samuel 26)

**Bible Verse: “Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so all will go well with you.” Deuteronomy 6:18a (NLT)

Family activity – Right Rules

Materials needed – board game

1. Ask your children to play a board game with you.

Say: Doing what is right means we follow God’s rules.

2. Explain the rules before you play the game.

3. At the end of the game, say: When we follow the rules of the game, the game is better. When we follow God’s rules that is doing what is right. Remember to do what is right!

Leadership Trait:

Good Choices - Great leaders always chose to do what is right.

** Learn the Bible Verse to be eligible for prizes.