Master Teacher: October- December 2023

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

Growing with Jesus (Ages 5 and Younger) is an age-appropriate Christian quarterly lesson guide. Each lesson contains a Bible story to bring the meaning to life for the students. Pictures depicting the lesson’s meaning for each week can be easily colored and carried home by these young disciples. 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: 9798886351378

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Vol. 127 • No. 4

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Master Teacher

FOURTH QUARTER 2023 Vol. 127 • No. 4

Teaching Companion to NextGen Leaders and Adult Christian Life

Master Teacher is the teacher’s quarterly to be used with Adult Christian Life and NextGen Leaders. Each lesson contains extensive biblical exposition and specific instructions for the teacher. The outline of the lesson is reader friendly and includes suggestions for maximizing teacher/student interaction and topics for making the study informative and enriching.

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The R.H. Boyd family of companies produces and provides the highest quality of Christian, inspirational, historic, educational, and cultural literature, merchandise, and services by continuing to use high ethical, moral, and biblically sound standards as it has for five generations.

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 with permission.

NIV Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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MASTER TEACHER

Resources to Enhance Instruction

The Master Teacher quarterly has many features that add to its popular appeal among Christian Education students ages 18 and older. It includes a number of elements to enhance the learning experience. This quarterly is designed to help students in their quest to understand and apply the Bible to their lives.

CONTENTS

VOLUME 127 • NUMBER 4

FOURTH QUARTER 2023

MASTER TEACHER

I.

FAITH TRIUMPHS, LAW FAILS

UNIT I — OCTOBER

II.

CHRIST FREES, LAW ENSLAVES

UNIT II — NOVEMBER

III.

PROFILES IN FAITH

UNIT III — DECEMBER

What’s in Store THIS QUARTER

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.

UNIT I— FAITH TRIUMPHS, LAW FAILS

Unit I, Faith Triumphs, Law Fails, 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 II—CHRIST FREES, LAW ENSLAVES

The four lessons of Unit II, Christ Frees, Law Enslaves, highlight the ways in which Jewish and Gentile Christians wrestled with Mosaic law in light of Christ’s teaching. Lesson 7 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 8 draws upon 1 Corinthians and Romans to examine the ways in which the law finds its fulfillment in the commandment to love. Lesson 9 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 should not become a license for sin.

Unit Points of Emphasis ______________________________________________

UNIT III—PROFILES IN FAITH

Unit III, Profiles in Faith, 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 10, we see how Ruth trusted that God would provide for her and her mother-in-law in a male-dominated society. In Lesson 11, David trusts that God will enable him to slay the giant Goliath, even though he was a boy and not a warrior. Lesson 12 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 13, Elizabeth and Mary trust that God is sending the Christ Child to bring salvation to Israel. In Lesson 14, 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.