Senior High Quarterly | Teacher Manual Fall Quarter 2021 (Sep-Nov): Winter Quarter 2021-2022 (Dec-Feb)

By Church Of God In Christ Publishing House

The 13-week curriculum guide is designed to provide the teacher with Biblically sound principles that are relevant to the youth they instruct. The Teacher Manual has enhanced teacher tips and a suggested outline to help make lesson preparation seamless. The Manual(s) features:
Biblical applications
Unified themes
Versatile adaptability

• Language: English
• Publisher: Church Of God In Christ Publishing House
• Release date: Nov 1, 2021

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Senior High Quarterly | Teacher Manual Winter Quarter 2021-2022 (Dec-Feb)

Church Of God In Christ Publishing House

FROM THE PRESIDING BISHOP’S DESK

Greetings in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

2021-2022 is upon us, and we optimistically, yet cautiously, look forward to this next year. The past year has been the most challenging we have ever experienced. A relentless, microscopic virus catapulted the entire world into a tailspin. Schools, malls, airports, and even our churches were forced to close as we sought alternate ways of functioning. Our day-to-day lives were upended, and many of us were faced with the unbearable losses of friends, family, and co-laborers.

How much longer will we be forced to endure, and when will this end? When will normalcy return? These are questions that have been asked but cannot be answered with any amount of certainty. As believers, it is this time that we faithfully place our uncertain futures in the hands of a loving and faithful God. A God who promised never to leave or forsake us. Now is when we must trust in the Lord with all of our hearts and not lean to our limited and finite understanding.

We must continue to dedicate ourselves to trusting God in all circumstances knowing that even when the road is rough and the journey tumultuous, we maintain unyielding confidence in the God of our salvation.

Regardless of the many hardships, we have endured, let us now focus on this next season with hope and anticipation, trusting that God will sustain us. Jeremiah 17:7-8 declares, Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water that sends out its roots by the stream and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.

Be encouraged, knowing that no matter what the season may bring, God is with us.

In His Service,

J. Drew Sheard

Presiding Bishop

Eighth in Succession

Church Of God In Christ, Inc.

FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLISHING BOARD

Blessings in the name of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,

The Church, my brothers and sisters, is in a very unique position in the world today. You ask the question, how? We are called upon when a crisis happens, and we work to bring healing and understanding to those who are enduring the crisis. But, on the other hand, those who serve in ministry are often taken for granted. We are viewed as backward, stoic, and uncompromising; in many instances, we are thought of as old relics that refuse to modernize and change our stance on things the world believes is now the right thing to do. We are perplexed at the calls for us to change against what the Bible says is unholy, and we are pushed into a position where we must decide whether we’re going to stand with the world or stand with God.

The German-Dutch author Thomas a Kempis, who wrote The Imitation of Christ in the late Medieval Period, said this, At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done therefore, in our doing we must be found faithful. God has taken us through trials, storms, depths, valleys, mountain tops, and many downpours for us to turn against him. He has walked with us in our lowest points, and He carried us when we no longer had the strength to endure. He has protected us from ourselves, and, most importantly, He has laid out a path of continual redemption for each one upon this Earth.

So, we owe it to God that we not only be found faithful but that we teach and encourage others to be faithful as well. The Novelist and Christian Apologist C. S. Lewis says this about faith, I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. It is time, my brothers and sisters, in this season to endure the hard, harsh lessons, not of life, but of the trying of our faith; so that when our trials have briefly ended, we’re able to see everything from the viewpoint of Jesus Christ, and that is just enough view to keep us pushing on a little more further.

Merry Christmas and a Happy Blessed New Year.

Yours for service,

Bishop Uleses Henderson Jr, Esq.

Chairman of the Publishing Board

Church Of God In Christ, Inc.

QUARTERLY FOCUS

Dear Students,

Let me begin this quarter by saying the loyalty you are demonstrating to your Publishing House is outstanding and appreciated. Bishop Uleses Henderson and his board are constantly thinking of ways to improve the Sunday school book and financially make the purchasing of this publication as reasonable as possible.

The lessons for this quarter will emphasize a strongly needed revival in our faith in the promises of God. You will read how Abram and Sarai risked everything in their old age to move their family and all of their possessions to a new land. You will be asked to think of things God has promised in your lives that will bless you and others now as well as in generations to come. You will be asked, what are you willing to risk to follow through with God’s plan and bring Him glory, even at the risk of your own comfort? You will learn even though Abram and Sarai were well beyond the age of childbearing, Abram believed God when he was told that he would have descendants more numerous than the stars. While it is true sometimes, we have to wait on God’s fulfillment rather long, but He is faithful.

This quarter, we will also show that praise is the proper response to God’s many fulfilled promises to us. We can thank God for the big things like our salvation and the daily things He does for us, even the air we breathe.

The student will also get a glimpse of how God rewards those who are faithful to Him. God does not always bless us with fame and wonderful jobs in this life. But as Psalm 23:1 tells us, we shall not want. This means that He will bring us to a place of satisfaction, a place where we need nothing more than what we already have. God gave Joseph a happy ending because he obeyed God and forgave his brothers.

And finally, the subject of grace and works is addressed in this quarter. There are some who would like to believe that grace is a permission slip to live without rules. A true understanding of all that happened on the Cross will make Christians see that their old sinful selves are dead, and now they are free to live for Christ. Your students will better understand that their old sinful selves died with Christ on the Cross, so they can now live victorious lives with Christ living in them. This short preview of this quarter can’t begin to address all the great biblical gems you will be exposed to during the next three months.

Bishop J. L. Whitehead, Jr.

COGIC LIAISON

Senior High® Teacher

Promises Kept

It is so disappointing when someone makes a promise to you and then does not keep it. It causes you to lose respect for the person who made the promise, and sometimes it can cause you to mistrust others who make promises. This quarter focuses on promises God made and kept. God promised Abraham that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed. That promise was passed on from generation to generation until it was ultimately fulfilled in Christ.

The first three lessons are studies in Genesis. The next four lessons consider Joseph’s story in Genesis 39-50. We see how God’s promise to Abraham is passed from generation to generation and carried with Abraham’s descendants into Egypt. The final lesson of the unit considers the song of Moses in Exodus 15. God delivers Israel and leads them to safety in the desert. God’s covenant of faithfulness is proven again. The last four lessons, taken from Paul’s letter to the Galatians, emphasize the New Testament interpretation of the Law, of justification by faith, and of Christ’s disciples as heirs of Abraham’s promise.

We hope your teens enjoy these lessons and that you learn something about the faithfulness of God. We pray that their relationship with God grows and that they learn to depend on God to be a promise keeper.

Sincerely,

COGIC Publishing Board

Curriculum Committee

Do you worry a lot? Do you wonder if God will answer your prayers? Do you question whether God is with you when you don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may need a refresher course on faith. We hear the word a lot, but do we really know what it means? Do we apply it to our daily lives?

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1, KJV). Faith is accepting an end or outcome without physical or material proof that such an outcome is even plausible. Faith is the confident assurance that we will—in fact and in time—receive that which God promised.

Faith is invisible. The writer of Hebrews calls it substance. Faith is spiritual—it exists on a level that is foreign to the physical, mental, and emotional levels we’ve become so accustomed to governing ourselves. And while there may be no empirical evidence to support our confident expectation, faith is the evidence.

As growing Christians, it is important to have an accurate understanding about faith, especially if we are interested in receiving from God. We must believe that He is and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him.

Faith is different from hope. Hope is a condition for faith. Hope is a positive unwavering expectation of good. Hope is for the mind (I Thessalonians 5:8), an anchor for the soul (Hebrews 6:19). It keeps us in the place where we can believe, but it is not in itself faith. Yet, without hope there are no things hoped for, and therefore there cannot be faith.

Faith allows Christians to see light in the midst of darkness, to be fearless in terrifying circumstances, to be content despite everything around them going wrong, to be hopeful in the midst of tragedy. Life oftentimes allows Christians to exercise faith in difficult times. Taking a leap of faith is important when circumstantial evidence attempts to deter someone from moving forward.

As teens, it may be difficult to exercise faith. Too many of us have been taught to believe what we see, not to hope for and expect what you don’t see. But mastering this ability is one of the secrets of success.

So, what are some practical examples of faith?

• Faith is applying for a job despite lacking full qualifications and believing that you will be hired.

• Faith is the ability to remain calm in the midst of a battle or storm and believing that the storm will end.

Worry at times seems to override faith particularly when one’s health, finances, or other factors have been adversely affected, but faith is essential for getting through those stressful situations. Faith is in contrast to a physician giving a death sentence when faced with a medical diagnosis, or to a psychiatrist giving a death sentence as a mental health diagnosis, with no hope for a cure; and is demonstrated by a patient who believes that a cure will occur. When unforeseen circumstances suddenly prevent you from working, faith is being able to rest on the assurance that your bills will get paid despite having absolutely no money in the bank.

Faith is accepting an end or outcome without physical or material proof…

Faith is essential to your foundation. You will need it when things are going well. You will need it when things are not going well. You need it for your Christian walk. You need it during hard times. Whether times are good or whether they are hard, rely on your faith to give you more strength because in the midst of any challenge or obstacle, faith will see you through!

Keep the faith!

SENIOR HIGH QUARTERLY

WINTER QUARTER 2021 - 2022

DECEMBER • JANUARY • FEBRUARY

GOD ESTABLISHES A FAITHFUL PEOPLE

TEACHING TIPS AND IDEAS

TIP #1

We as teachers of Sunday School have to remain encouraged, focused and inspired to make a difference in another person’s life, be it a child or adult (1 Samuel 30:6).

TIP #2

Some of us will not have mega Sunday Schools as far as the number of