Good Morning and welcome.
If it’s your first time with us we hope that you will enjoy your time with us.
This morning is a family service so the kids will stay in for the whole service.
Right... time for a question!
What are all the parents looking forward to in a couple of weeks time that most children dread?
It’s time to go back to school!
This morning for our family service we are going to go back to school too, we are going to have a history lesson, an english lesson, a geography lesson and a little PE as well.
It’s gonna be fun and we might learn a little something too. Ok?
Let me hand over to Andy and he will lead us in a couple of songs while we collect your lunch money - your tithes and offerings.
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Assembly:
Kids do you still have school assemblies?
When I was little... yes I was little once!
My school used to have an assembly everyday before the first lesson started.
And in the assembly we would always sing
“All things bright and beautiful” and we would say the Lords Prayer together.
I thought we could say it together too, and there are some actions that we can do as we say it.
So we start with Our Father i will run through once then we can say and do it together.
1 Our Father in heaven- Praying hands
2 Holy is your name - heads bowed
3 Your kingdom come - make a gesture of invitation
4 Your will be done - a salute
5 On earth - make a circle with two hands
6 As it is in heaven - Point at the sky
7 Give us today our dailybread-hands out to receive
8 Forgive us our sins - hands on heart
9 as we forgive others - shake hands
10 Lead us away from temptation - blinkers
11 And deliver us from evil - Hold hand up stopsign
12 For yours is the kingdom - spread arms wide
13 the power - muscles
14 and the glory- Jazz hands
15 Forever and ever - draw a large circle with one hand several times
16 Amen - clap your hands
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Well that worked well.
In my school assemblies people would have an opportunity to talk about what they had done over the summer.
Would anyone like to say anything about how God has blessed or strengthened them so far this summer?
Right, break time - lets sing again before we have our first lesson.
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Worship: 1 song
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History Lesson:
The Bible is more than history it’s HIS STORY it’s God’s story and it’s relevant today.
The first book of the Bible Genesis, begins with four amazing words, “In the beginning, God”
God is the beginning, middle and end,
the first and the last.
Romans 11:36 reminds us “For everything comes from Him and exists by His power and is intended for His glory”
The Bible is a book that records Gods promises to us His people.
God has made promises to bring His people to Himself and He is fulfilling those promises everyday
The message of the Bible is genuine truth, its better than any human ideas or philosophy or opinions.
The Message of the Bible can be understood by young and old.
Its exciting, its enthralling, its personal, its deep, its meaningful, its life-changing and its personal - God speaks to you and He speaks to me through His words in the Bible.
The Bible is not just history its HIS Story and our story too.
The story of our loving God and His relationship with His people.
The Bible shows us how people can be saved from their sins through faith in Jesus Christ and how we should live our lives as followers of God.
From creation to new creation,
Father, Son, and Spirit at work everyday,
saving and changing and healing and loving broken people for God’s glory and their good.
Perhaps the most well known verse of the Bible is John 3:16 ‘For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
(John 3:16).
That is the message of the Bible and its true!
Ok time for another break - lets sing again
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Worship? 1 song
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It’s time for our PE Lesson:
Can I have some volunteers to help at the front?
So should we start with Push ups, or sit ups,
or star jumps, or a quick run up and down the hill?
Don’t worry, it’s nothing that painful.
I’m going to ask you to mime some actions...
Some will be things you enjoy doing...
Some will be things we don’t enjoy doing
Some of them will be ways that we can worship or serve God
Some of them will be things that can stop us worshipping and serving God if we let them.
Are you ready?
• Dance • Cheer • Play football • Be still
• Hoover the floor • Kneel • Swim • Sit
• Write a poem • Clap • Help lay the table
• Sing • Tidy your room • Listen
• Draw a picture • Ride a bike
• Wash up • Go to the dentist
• Help someone cross the road
• Read your bible
• Eat a banana
• Pray
There are many things we do each day.
Stuff we enjoy and stuff we don’t.
There are also many ways we can show our love for God, we can talk to Him, we can pray, we can read the bible, and we can help others.
But sometimes we can get so busy only doing the things we enjoy, our hobbies, our jobs, our school work, or even keeping fit that we foget to do the stuff that God wants us to do.
Proverbs 4:25-27 says this
Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.
And that’s good advice for all of us to follow every day. Plan your day and stay on the safe path. The path that leads to Jesus.
Ok time for another break - lets sing again
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Worship? 1 song
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English Lesson: THE ABC
Years ago there was a man who asked the Apostle Paul “What must I do to be saved?”
“What can I do to get to Heaven?”
If someone asked you about how to be saved,
how to get to heaven, what would your answer be?
Some people may say we need to be kind and helpful to others.
Some people might answer
“We have to try and be good and honest”
Some may say you need to make sure you do more good things than bad and God will weigh up what you have done.
But the Bible is clear when it says that in our own effort, in our own strength, no one is good except God.
It does not matter how good we try to be, we just can’t meet God’s standards on our own.
But there is hope, there is an answer, there is a solution, a simple ABC solution to the question
“What must I do to be saved?”
Can you think back to when you were taught the alphabet?
I would guess that you learned the letters in their correct order.
You learned that A, B and C all come before D.
The letter D certainly is in the alphabet, but its place is fourth, not first.
So if we start with the letter A.
A—“ALL HAVE SINNED”
Romans 3:23 tells us “All have sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.”
What God says to us in the Bible is true, everyone of us has done or said something wrong in our lives
None of us are perfect.
We all sin in some way.
But God doesn’t give up on us because we are sin; He loves us too much for that. He has a cure for sin, and it is explained with the letter B.
B—“BELIEVE”
Acts 16:31 says “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved”
Wow! When we believe in Jesus Christ.
When we trust Him, when we ask Jesus into our lives the promise is we will be saved.
No ifs, no buts, no maybes, we will be saved.
Jesus said that He was the way the truth and the life and that He was the only way to God.
And all we need to do is trust Him.
It may seem too simple, but it is true.
All we need to do is believe in Jesus Christ and we are saved.
Acts 4:12 reminds us that Jesus is the only way to be saved, “There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”
So how does that happen, how does that work the letter C explains what Jesus did so you could be saved.
C—“CHRIST”
1 Peter 3:18 says “Christ Jesus suffered for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God.”
If you acknowledge that you are a sinner according to A, and if you believe in Jesus according to B, C tells you that Christ has already paid the price for your sins to be forgiven.
The bad stuff you have done, are doing, will do in the future, your sins;
Jesus has been punished in your place,
to continue the school theme
Jesus has done your detention,
Jesus has written your lines,
Jesus has done what you could not do yourself.
And because of that, when you trust in Jesus you are saved and you are guaranteed a place in Heaven.
Isn’t that amazing! Isn’t that great!
Eternal life through Jesus Christ.
An eternty in Heaven.
God’s A-B-C is wonderful.
The moment you trust in Jesus for salvation,
you are saved from your sins and assured of spending eternity in heaven.
A B C That’s the first three letters of the alphabet.
Maybe we should also think about the letter D.
D —“DOING”
Ephesians 2:10 is a verse of the Bible that applies to those people who by faith have accepted Jesus as Saviour, it says “We are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”
The Doing part comes after trusting in Jesus.
We can’t pay for our own salvation, we can’t earn eternal life by doing stuff for God.
But doing stuff for God, proves that we love Him and trust Him.
If someone asks you about how they can be saved, how they can get to heaven,
what will your answer be?
Ok time for another break - lets sing again
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Worship? 1 song
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Last lesson - Geography:
In His time on earth, Jesus only travelled a very small area of the world.
Everywhere He went He spoke to people.
He told them and taught them many things about God and about themselves.
Jesus spoke many wise and powerful words,
Jesus spoke the truth.
Many people believed what He said,
others ignored what He said because they did not want to have to change things in their lives.
Jesus words were recorded for us by the people who knew Him the most, in the Bible there are many letters that were written to different churches in different places.
The message of Jesus, the truth about who He was, spread far and wide and continues to be shared around the world today.
The last instruction Jesus gave to His disciples and to us before He returned to Heaven is found in Matthew 28:18-20
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
We are called to share the message of Jesus whereever we are, in our homes, in our schools,
in our workplaces, to our friends,
to our neighbours, to people we know and love.
Everyone needs the opportunity to be taught about Jesus, to do what we have done this morning by going back to school, and learn the History and story of God.
To learn how to speak to God, to learn how to worship God, to Accept, Believe and Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour.
To Do what God has asked us to do and share what we have learned, what we know to be truth with others.
May God Bless you and keep you and help you to learn and love Him more everyday.
Amen? Amen
A final song and then school is over and its time to go Home!
