At HomeStuff week November 29

Every month we have a fifth Sunday we pause to focus on one of five FAITH SKILLS.  Here are the five FAITH SKILLS:

5 Skills Every Kid Needs to Master
1.  Navigate the Bible (survey and locate)
2.  Personalize Scripture (memorize and apply)
3.  Dialogue with God (private and public)
4.  Articulate Faith (share and defend)
5.  Worship with Your Life (praise and give)

Not Just on Sunday!



This week we talked about Faith Skill #5: Worship with your life (praise and give).

Bible Story: Not Just on Sunday (the fellowship of the believers) • Acts 2:42-47


Bottom Line: I can worship God _____.

Because this is the fifth week of the month, it’s a natural opportunity to shift gears a bit. So, we’re focusing on a “faith skill,” the faith skill of worshiping with your life (through praising and giving). You may notice that the bottom line has a blank in it. Don’t worry; it’s intentional. Over the centuries, worship has mistakenly been thought of as only singing or playing music, but if we take a tip from the first fellowship of believers, we come to understand that worship is so much more than that! We can worship God in many ways: we can worship God at any time and anywhere, we can worship God in many different ways, we can worship Him alone, or with others. You fill in the blank! There is no limit to how we can show our love to God because He has made us each wonderfully unique. So this week, focus on teaching your kids to fill in the blank with whatever He has gifted and given them to do.
 
Will you take a few moments sometime this week and read this story at home. By reading this at home you are practicing the bottom line. It has been said that practice makes perfect. Well practicing these faith skills at home shows your child that our faith is more than just a place we attend, but something that is active in our daily world.

At HomeStuff November 22-29

Week of November 22-29

Bottom Line this Week:  Working together to get God's work done.

By now your child should have a really good idea of what cooperation is all about: working together to do more than you can do alone. They should also have a firm grasp of the fact that cooperation is not just a good idea-- it’s a “God idea.” Because of that, cooperation is something that should permeate our lives, in both everyday activities and in church activities (although the everyday activities are also sacred, for a believer, right? Check out Colossians 3:23.).

This week we are talking about how the Israelites came together to make their mobile tabernacle under God’s direction. “The Israelites completed all the work, just as God had commanded. Moses saw that they had done all the work and done it exactly as God had commanded” (Exodus 39:42-43, The Message). Although where you gather as a church looks different from that tent of long ago, one of our reasons for gathering remains the same: to get God’s work done. So this week, help kids better understand what “God’s work” looks like and how it benefits us all.

At home this week talk about what cooperation looks like both at church and at home.  Thanks for those families that participated in either Operation Christmas Child (shoeboxes) or the NETWORK project (mosquito nets).  This is a great picture of COOPERATION.  We partner with people from our church, that partner with people from our state that connect with thousands of people around the country to make a significant difference.