Monday, February 11, 2013

Set II Meeting 2 - Presenting the Gospel

Our meeting topic yesterday was Presenting the Gospel, the second meeting of Set II Having Your Pictcher Full of Living Water.  A big thank you to the adults who gave personal testimonies of times where they've shared their faith with others and some outcomes. The Lord really dovetailed all of their stories together with the material that was later presented in the meeting.  I LOVE how He does that!

After testimonies I had the girls watch a fantastic video on one way to share the Gospel using Romans 6:23;

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

We talked about the fact that many people think they're 'good people' and will make it into heaven based on that, as if God grades on a curve...so, we took the Good Person test online and saw the truth of our spiritual condition.  While the girls and I had a fun time laughing at how miserably we failed every commandment...it really pointed out our desperate need for a Saviour.

We talked about how we've heard many people say that "there are many paths to God", but Jesus states clearly in John 14: "I am the way and the truth and they life, no one comes to the Father except through me." 

We've also heard it said how 'narrow minded Christians are', and in this case, it's true!  We understand what scripture means when it says in Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."  We took the opportunity to pray a prayer of salvation for anyone who had doubts on that score.

Using copies of the same drawing used in the video, we went over the bridge illustration again and then broke out into groups of Believers and Non Believers to practice witnessing to each other.  The jars contained slips of paper on which were written the parts they were to play...for example, a Believer was intstructed to share the gospel using their own testimony, or the bridge illustration in our drawing.  A Non Believer's response may have been to be interested with lots of questions, or someone who was completely resistant to the truth. 



Our craft today was making orgami hearts, inside of which was tucked a slip of paper with John 3:16...a great way to witness either by handing out to people, or by leaving in places for people to find.  Perfectly timed since Valentine's Day is right around the corner :)


 
 As a side note...we celebrated a birthday today.  I keep my eyes open for neat little things on sale, and then pick them up for our birthday cache - the girls pick which one they want when their turn comes around.
 
 

I aquired 3 new china tea cup sets for the tea table!  We now have a full set and a unique, beautiful piece of art for each girl to sip her tea from...
 
 

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