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| RESPOND: (10 minutes) Explain the two prayer stations to students. They may choose to go to one or both or neither during this response time. The prayer station with the cross is a place where they may choose to go to write their sins on a piece of paper and nail it to the cross. The prayer station with the candle is a place to light a candle and say a prayer to God—it can be a prayer of thanksgiving for what Jesus did on the cross, a prayer of confession, a prayer of commitment to Jesus. Teacher tip: This is a heavy session, a heavy topic. Your students will react differently, depending on what is happening in their lives, and how God’s Spirit speaks to them during this time. Be sensitive to this and be prepared to minister to students individually as needed. INSIGHTS INTO SCRIPTURE: This story, together with the resurrection, is the formative event from the New Testament that gives us our salvation history. God saw the sin problem and knew that in order for there to be fellowship with us, God would have to make a covenant with humankind. This covenant was made through the death of God’s son, Jesus. The cross was an act of grace that we did not deserve. The cross is also important in that it showed us how to live. We too should expect suffering when we are obedient to God and respond non-violently to our oppressors. This particular lesson emphasizes the torture that Christ endured. The physical passion of Christ began in Gethsemane. Of the many aspects of the initial suffering, the one of greatest psychological interest is the bloody sweat. It is interesting that Luke, the physician, is the only one to mention this. Continued... |
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