My goodness! There are so many things I’ve wanted to write
about, but life is so busy that it seems like there’s no time to write about
any of them!
Today was Bible Sunday at our church. Each year, we give our
preschoolers and 3rd graders new Bibles. This year, we gave all of
our younger kids (infants-preschool) a Bible, all of our Preschoolers and
Kindergarteners a Bible, all of our 3rd graders a Bible and all of
the kids who hadn’t already received a Bible their age-appropriate Bibles. We
gave out all kinds of Bibles today!
Ben had asked me help hand them out to each child, one by
one. How cool it was to present some of our kids with their very first Bible!
And it was SO incredible to see their reactions and excitement for their new
book!
When I interviewed with our church Cabinet for
in-discernment status, I was asked one theological question: “How do you view
the Bible?” This morning, as I taught the Bible Sunday lesson to my preschoolers
and kindergarteners, I thought that the lesson summed it up quite nicely. I
adapted the original story for my kids and am adapting it even more for the
blog. But loosely, it goes something like this:
“The Bible is a gift from God! It is full of the stories of
God and the stories of the people of God! It was written for us by the people
of God to help us understand the best ways to love God and the best ways to
love others. The Bible can serve as a history book, telling about what others
have done or as a roadmap, showing us what ways we should choose. But the stories
of the people of God are a sacred (set apart) gift from God. They are ours. No
one can take them from us. Our Bibles help us to tell the stories of God, but
the stories also live in our hearts.”
At the end of all of our lessons, we ask the “I Wonder”
questions. Today, it was “I wonder what your favorite Bible story is?” My kids’
answers? Jonah and the Whale, Advent, Creation, The Parable of the Good
Samaritan…
It’s so cool to have to ask our kids to put away their
Bibles for a few minutes during the story time. And incredibly humbling to
watch them choose reading stories in their new Bibles as one of their
activities during response time.
If I were teaching this lesson to adults, my last question
would be “I wonder when we stopped getting so excited to read the stories of
God?”
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