Lesson 1 Serving the Body as a Family

Serving the Body as a Family
Members of One Body

Read: 1 Corinthians 12: 14 - 31

Questions:
Why are spiritual gifts important for the life of the church?
What does it mean for the church if you have been given a gift and do not use it?
How can you use your individual gifts in service to the church?

As a family visit http://www.spiritualgiftstest.com and take either the adult or youth test as is appropriate. For younger children, it would be good for parents to either help or fill it out for them or simply acknowledge any giftings that you have seen evident in your child's life.

Key Thought: God wants to give to all of his followers, we need to ask for them and then use them as the Holy Spirit directs us.

Pray and thank God for the spiritual gifts that he has given your family. Pray that God would help you see what gifts he has given you, and that he would use the gifts strongly in your life, and your families.


Activities:

Preschool: Help them make a gift tag and then put it on them by making if a bracelet, necklace, or tying it to a belt loop. Explain that God has given them gifts and that they should use them for His glory.

Lower Elementary: Ask your child to find the right key on your key chain to unlock the front door of your house. Explain that each key on your key chain is important and has a specific role that none of the other keys can do. Not just any key can open the front door or start the car. Then ask what happens when you lose that key. Explain that when God gives us a gift we are a lot like the key, and we have a very important role, so we need to use our gifts!

Upper Elementary: Have them draw or paint a picture of his/ herself. (Another fun thing would be to trace them with sidewalk chalk.) Read through 1 Corinthians 12 again and help them understand how the church is a lot like the body that they have just drawn.

Teens: Take some time going over the Spiritual Gifts results you took with your family. Pray and ask God how you can use the gifts he has given you this week.