Day 1

KNOW

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  • Begin your family devo time with a prayer asking God to focus everyone’s attention on Him together.  Feel free to have one of your kids pray!
  • Say this week’s Gospel statement out loud together (in the picture above!)…feel free to have your family say it along with you, or repeat short phrases. Our goal is to memorize this phrase by the end of the week!
  • BIBLE TIME: Read John 3:14-18 out loud together.
    • Challenge your children who are old enough to read to follow along in their own physical Bibles.

GROW

  • Family Discussion: What does John 3:14-18 teach us? Share out loud together*.
    • *Take time to emphasize just a few of these points if you have a distracted audience!*
    • Eternal life is given to whoever believes in the Son of Man being lifted up (on the cross!) (14-15)
    • God so loved the world (literally IN THIS MANNER, or THUSLY): He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life (16)
    • God did not send Jesus (His Son) to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through Him (17)
    • Believing in/Believing Jesus removes condemnation that we are ALL ALREADY under as sinners who haven’t yet believed in Jesus
  •  Family Discussion: For your own personal life, which of these truths do you love the most?
    • Which of these truths makes you think about others in your life who don’t trust Jesus yet?

GO

  • Take turns praying as a family.  Praise God for loving us in the way that He did: sending Jesus, the Son, to be lifted up on the cross for our sins so that we could have eternal life!
  • THIS WEEK‘S CHALLENGE: Have each family member share out loud about one person who needs to hear that God is holy and created us to be with Him, our sins separate us from Him, no good work takes away the stain of sin, that Jesus paid for our sins by dying and rising again, and that EVERYONE who trusts Jesus alone with their entire life (cf. Proverbs 3:5-6!) enjoys eternal life.
  • Have one family member or all re-state today’s Gospel statement: Everyone who trusts in Jesus alone has eternal life.
  • BONUS OPTION TO CLOSE: Listen & sing along with either “Crown Him with Many Crowns” by Shane & Shane or “Your Great Name” by Jeff Johnson: