By the Waters of Babylon and Home Again

 By the Waters of Babylon and Home Again    -  Lessons 8 & 9 in Manna and Mercy

December 16 for 9th Graders

January 6  for 8th Graders


Intro

1. Read Lessons 8 & 9-  By the Waters of Babylon and Home Again. Manna and Mercy pages 27-38.

(Here's a link to the lesson online in case you need it)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a3cys37qyDRwNxcPdb_dADvaOtP0Kjov/view?usp=sharing

2. Discuss with your parent:  What loss have you most deeply felt during this pandemic?  What other losses have you felt in your life?  How did they make you feel?  How did you express those feelings? (cry, get angry, complain to God, became very quiet, etc)

3. Discuss with your parent:  When have you experiences some kind of restoration or renewal? (new job, new relationship, move to a different area of the country, closer to God, prayer, worship, Holy Communion, etc)

Video Lesson

Watch this video: 



(Here is the link in case the embedded one doesn't work)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97RBA5DGvM&t=5s

Discuss:

1. Together, write down some complaints, sorrows, hurts that you could address to God. Do you feel comfortable complaining to God or getting angry with God?   The people in the Bible did (see Psalm 22).

2. What are the 4 Steps in their journey Home Again?

3. What does it mean to Repent?

4. How do we know that God is always with us and for us. Refer to the beginning and end of Jesus' life on earth.

5. Besides Black Panther, what are some other movies that retell movie stories of the past?

6. What do you think it means to call Jesus a Suffering Servant? Can you imagine that kind of leader to be more powerful than other kind of leader?

7. In the story of Jonah, we mostly remember the whale that swallows Jonah up.  But the purpose of the story is to tell us that God is merciful to all people, even those "outside" the family.  How might be "outsiders" in our world today that we need to include in our family?


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