Children's Teacher: October- December 2023

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

Children’s Teacher is a teacher’s quarterly for children 11 and under. In addition to the exposition of the printed text, each of the thirteen lessons includes the purpose of the lesson, extensive teaching plans, lesson introduction, background of the lesson, meaningful insights, and related activities. It follows the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outline from the National Council of Churches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Sep 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886351354

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Fourth Quarter 2023 Vol. 40 • No. 4

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CHILDREN’S TEACHER

FOURTH 2023 VOL. 40 • NO. 4

Teaching Companion to Growing with Jesus,

Young Learners, and Adventurers with Jesus

Children’s Teacher is a teacher’s Sunday school quarterly designed to be used as a companion teaching tool to Growing with Jesus, Young Learners, and Adventurers with Jesus. In addition to the exposition of the printed text, all lessons include the purpose of the lesson, extensive teaching plans, lesson introduction, background of the lesson, meaningful insights, and related activities.

MEET YOUR WRITER

KATARA PATTON is the author of a series of books on successful living based on Biblical characters. Successful Moms of the Bible, Successful Women of the Bible and Successful Leaders of the Bible. Patton is also the author of a devotional coloring book for all ages, The Parables of Jesus Coloring Book. Katara graduated summa cum laude from Dillard University (New Orleans, LA), with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications and English. She then earned a Master of Journalism in magazine publishing from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). She also received a Masters of Divinity from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (Evanston, IL), where she received the outstanding preaching award. She resides in Chicago with her husband and their daughter.

Lesson material is based on the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outlines, copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and is used by permission.

Scriptures taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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CONTENTS

VOLUME 40 • NUMBER 4

FOURTH QUARTER 2023 CHILDREN’S TEACHER

UNIT 1 — OCTOBER

RULES ARE NOT ENOUGH

UNIT 2 — NOVEMBER

JESUS SETS US FREE

UNIT 3 — DECEMBER

MEETING PEOPLE WITH FAITH

This Quarter, Your Children Will Study...

The Fall quarter considers the role of God’s law as it relates to faith in Christ. The lessons focus on New Testament texts that radically reinterpret the significance of the Mosaic law for those who love Christ and respond in faith. As one who fulfilled the whole law, Jesus was able to show us how compassion is more important than a rigid interpretation of the law. Later New Testament writings reinforce the gospel teaching that faith in Christ brings justification, while the law, which we are unable to observe satisfactorily, does not. As followers of Christ we are still bound to fulfill the law by keeping the commandment to love and to acknowledge that freedom from the law does not equate to a permissive attitude toward sin. This quarter explores faith that pleases God. Any person seeking God must believe God exists and must know God rewards those who are seeking God. In this quarter we will learn additional information about faith that pleases God as we review the description of faith and observe faith in action. We will understand why it is so important to have faith that pleases God in our lifestyle of faith today.

UNIT 1— RULES ARE NOT ENOUGH

Unit 1 draws from Paul’s epistles to both the Romans and the Galatians to contrast the inability of the law to provide justification with the promise of justification by faith. Lesson 5 shows that just having the law is not enough; keeping it is what is important. And even those who do not have it but keep it are as blessed as those who have and keep it. Lesson 7 reveals the difficult struggle of the one who has the law and wants to keep it but finds the weakness of the flesh continually thwarting those efforts. Lesson 8 looks at Paul’s plea for the Galatian believers to hold fast to faith in Christ and not to revert to law–keeping for justification. And Lesson 9 explores the theme of how the law actually shows humankind’s need for something—someone—more than a written code for salvation.

Unit Points of Emphasis: ______________________________________________________________

UNIT 2—JESUS SETS US FREE

Unit 2 highlights the ways in which Jewish and Gentile Christians wrestled with Mosaic Law in light of Christ’s teaching. Lesson 10 draws on the Jerusalem Conference in Acts 15 to show how Gentiles need not submit to the Law because salvation, even for Jews, does not come through the Law but by faith in Christ. Lesson 11 draws upon 1 Corinthians and Romans to examine the ways in which the Law finds its fulfillment in the commandment to love. Lesson 12 looks at Paul’s letter to the Colossians in which he contrasts the hollowness of human traditions with the fullness of God found in Christ. The unit concludes with Paul’s warning to the Corinthians that Christian liberty not become a license for sin.

Unit Points of Emphasis: ______________________________________________________________

UNIT 3—MEETING PEOPLE WITH FAITH

Unit 3 has five lessons drawn from Ruth, 1 Samuel, and Matthew. As we review these profiles in faith, we begin to see faith in action: In Lesson 1, we see how Ruth trusted that God would provide for her and her mother-in-law in a male-dominated society. In Lesson 2, David trusts that God will enable him to slay the giant Goliath even though he was a boy and not a warrior. Lesson 3 draws on the stories of the women named in Matthew 1 to show how God’s plans unfold in ways we often least expect. In Lesson 4, Elizabeth and Mary trust that God is sending the Christ Child to bring salvation to Israel. In Lesson 5, the wise men trust that God is sending the Christ Child to be king of the Jews and the Messiah for all nations.

Unit Points of Emphasis: ______________________________________________________________

SEEKING GOD’S GUIDANCE

Suggested Opening Exercises

1. Usual Signal for Beginning

2. Prayer (Closing with the Lord’s Prayer)

3. Singing (Song to Be Selected)

4. Scripture Reading:

Romans 3:21–28

Director: But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

School: Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Director: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

School: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Director: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

School: To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in