Draw them in by asking them to share the Christmas story with you. For example, “Tell me the Christmas story.” Answer, “Yes, and what happened next?” And so on...
Use the following out line for an open
discussion with the older grades. Let
them contribute what they know from history.
Don’t lecture - lead a discussion.
Walk around the room and call on students. Be enthusiastic. Encourage
independent thought.
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Discussion:
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Read “One Solitary Life”... |
For many, the story stops in the mind with Jesus’ birth, but He
didn’t stay an infant. He grew up and fulfilled the mission that God the
Father had sent Him to accomplish. He did normal, human things and showed us
through it all that God is near us and is understanding us.
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew
up in still another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was
thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a
book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He
didn’t go to college. He never visited a big city. He never traveled two
hundred miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things one
usually associates with greatness. He had no credentials but himself.
He was only thirty three when the tide of opinion turned against him. His
friends ran away. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery
of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While he was dying,
his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth.
When he was dead, he was laid in a grave through the pity of a friend.
Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race and the leader of mankind’s progress. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that one solitary life.
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