Day 2

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 Romans 5:12 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 Romans 5:12 teach us? Share out loud together*.
    • Sin came into the world through one man (Adam).
    • Death came into the world because of sin.
    • We all experience death because we are all sinners.
  •  Family Discussion: What are you afraid of the most?  Share these fears out loud together, then point out that the reason for almost every fear is that we don’t we to feel weak and die!
    • God didn’t create death…death is simply absence or ending of LIFE (which God DID create!).
    • So death ends the kind of LIFE we have as sinners and because of our sin…that’s a pretty big problem isn’t it?
    • In the Gospel, we have to realize the reality of the BAD NEWS (we are sinners and deserve separation and death away from God) before we can really appreciate and know why we need the GOOD NEWS (that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners, 1 Tim. 1:15).

GO

  • Take turns praying as a family.  Go read Romans 5:17-18 for a the hope that we have even in light of the BAD NEWS of sin & death that is our reality.  Take time to confess your sins to God (maybe for the first time?!?) and thank Him for the free gift of Jesus offered to us.
  • 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, but our sins separate us from Him!  Take time to pray for each person by name.
  • Have one family member or all re-state today’s Gospel statement: Our sins separate us from God.
  • BONUS OPTION TO CLOSE: Listen & sing along with either “Romans 3:23” by David Crain or “Come Ye Sinners” by the Worship Initiative.