Preparing the Bible Lesson

The Bible Lesson is one of the most important components of your children's church ministry, one upon which I could build an entire website! I've been too overwhelmed to bite into this topic up until now, but I thought I'd just get my feet wet and take a baby step toward progress! You can expect a lot more on the subject as we go!

The most important advice I can give in regards to preparing your Bible Lesson is that you must keep in mind that you are preparing a lesson for two types of children in your ministry: the saved and the lost. You cannot neglect either one. This is of utmost importance.

You can take absolutely any story in the Bible and use it to meet the needs of both of these groups in your children's church. In order to do so, you must:

Insert the Gospel into every lesson

Select one Main Teaching that will challenge and help your saved kids

To give a basic example I will use the story of Noah's Ark. Is there a natural place to insert the Gospel into this well-known Bible story? Of course there is! The ark was God's way of salvation to Noah's family, just as Jesus Christ is God's way of salvation to all of mankind. And what teaching can we draw for our little saved friends? There are probably several options, but an obvious one is that if we trust and obey God like Noah did, the Lord will use us in a great way so that others will be saved.

I will definitely expound on this more in the future and give you specific help with preparing and outlining your lesson. However, if you are not currently thinking on these two things when you prepare your lesson each week, please begin to do so now. The Bible Lesson is your greatest opportunity to both reach your children's church kids with the gospel and to disciple those who are already saved.

You can be on the lookout for free Bible Lessons and other helps very soon...

This is a really neat Bible Lesson source! Garden of Praise