Driving Home Point

Week of April 13, 2008

This week children learn the important to love each other as Christian. It's impossible to grow in faith - or help others come to faith - without the influence of Christian community and genuine love for others. Our relationships with other Christians should reflect our relationship with Jesus.


Ask children about;

• What would you do if you saw a friend being teased or bullied because he or she talked about being a Christian?


• What would you do if the person being bullied was someone you didn't know?
• Why is it important for Christian friends to visit with each other and talk about Jesus?
• How can you encourage your friends in their faith?
  
  
  BIBLE POINT: God wants Christians to treat each other with loving care.
  
  BIBLE STORY: Christians Care for One Another. (Psalm 23; Acts 2:42-47)
  
  
  KEY VERSE: "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching." (Hebrew 10:24-25)

PRESCHOOL Play and Pray

Have your preschooler help you come up with a plan to show family members you care about them. For example, you might bake cookies together to share, wash the vegetables or fruits for lunch, help you to set up dinner table, or do a chore for someone else.

ELEMENTARY Truths

At dinner or another time the family is together, ask family members to take turns thinking of good things about each other and write on each other's back. Let them guess what it is. Encourage them to say good thing about others. Then ask everyone to think of a friend who could use encouragement this week and plan how to encourage that friend.

Time with TEENAGERS

Choose a time you and your teenager are together - perhaps doing a chore together or going some - where in the car - to talk about a time you needed encouragement in your faith. Talk about people who helped you and how they helped you. Then ask your teenager to think of a friend who needs encouragement in his or her faith. Brainstorm with your teenager about how best to provide the needed encouragement.