Sturgeon Bay Moravian Church Bringing Sunday School Home

Sturgeon Bay Moravian Church Bringing Sunday School Home – David Key Concepts • God calls and works with all kinds of people— children, adults, saints and sinners, those who have done wrong and those who have done mostly good. • Be able to tell about God’s call of David and relate it to God’s call today • Learn about the spiritual discipline of anointing; what it is and why we do it when we do it Memory Verse: I Samuel 16: 7 b “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. " The life of David is wonderful to read about with your kids and talk about as a family. Activities • Bible Study – Learn about the family of David and what it means to be a shepherd. Find out how that shaped the person that David would become. • Computer – Work through an interactive Life of David exercise on the computer • Kitchen – Taste some of the foods that people ate in Bible times and pack a lunch like David did when he went out into the fields to tend the flock • Art – Read about David and his best friend and then use yarn to make a friendship bracelet

Sturgeon Bay Moravian Church Bringing Sunday School Home – David Questions/Themes to consider as a family • Talk about the story of David and Goliath and about how a combination of David’s experience as a shepherd and his faith in God prepared him for that encounter. How is God preparing you and strengthening your faith in Him? • How did being a shepherd help David to become a good king? • Talk about how David was chosen as king. We tend to look at a person’s height, or how fast they are, or how beautiful they are. What does God see instead? How can we become more like God and see people for their heart? • Discuss David’s friendship with Jonathan. How can friends help us become better Christians? Digging deeper – questions for parents to consider • This will require some effort, but read the first chapter of the book, David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. Do you think that Gladwell fairly portrays the story? Does he downplay David’s faith in favor of his abilities? Or maybe, has God prepared an unlikely path to victory for David? • The story of David and Bathsheba is always a little embarrassing…like we would rather just skip over that part. However, that was a dark but important moment in David’s life. What can we learn from David’s example about how we can handle our own dark times, or help others with theirs?