This month in First Steps (birth-kindergarten) we are talking about people God made to help us. Just as God made you wonderful parents to help our families, He made people to help all of us. Isn't that awesome? How reassuring to know that God puts people in our lives that are here to help us. And, He puts us in people's lives to help them. In fact, it says in Ephesians 4:32 (NCV) "Be kind and loving to each other." We are to be kind and loving to one another, helping each other when a need is seen.
So, what... in the world... are you... doing? (As a parent, I've said this hundreds of times!) We'll explore this question and related ideas in the next two months of PowerJam (1st-6th grades) to help kids see connections between responsibility (what we'll be talking about in June) and service (what we'll focus on in July).
What about our nature and purpose? God said we are made in His likeness and that we are to "fill the earth and bring it under [our] control" (Genesis 1:28, NIrV). But what does that mean exactly? Is the earth ours, to do with however we please? Or is it God's, even though He's made us accountable for it? Genesis 1 has some answers (which we will examine in week 1), so the question of the day will be: What in the world are you doing to take care of what God made?
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