Day 3

KNOW

**For more resources to train yourself as a parent, challenge your older children (upper elementary through teens), or to simply go deeper, check out the Bonus>Extra Resources Tab in the app**.
  • 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 1 John 4:7-21 out loud together.
    • Challenge your children who are old enough to read to follow along in their own physical Bibles.
    • Theological Term of the Day: ATONEMENT — means to make a wrong right

GROW

  • Family Discussion: What does 1 John 4:1-21 teach us about God? Share out loud together*.
    • *Take time to emphasize just a few of these points if you have a distracted audience!*
    • Love is from God
    • God is love
    • God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him
    • God loved us & sent His Son to be the propitiation (a sacrifice that bears God’s wrath & turns it to favor) for our sins
    • God has given us of His Spirit
    • God the Father has send His Son to be the Savior of the world
    • God abides in whoever abides in love
    • God first loved us
  •  Family Discussion: How is it good news that Jesus, God the Son is our propitiation?

GO

  • Take turns praying as a family.  While it may seem kinda gross to think about blood literally having to be shed for our sins, this should show us just how SERIOUS our sins are before God! Romans 6:23a tells us what our sins deserve.  Thank God for His great plan and love toward us in Jesus as His blood was shed for YOUR sin to ATONE (make our wrongs right) for your 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, but that Jesus paid the price for our sin by dying and rising again!  Take time to pray for each person by name.
  • Have one family member or all re-state today’s Gospel statement: Paying the price for sin, Jesus died & rose again!
  • BONUS OPTION TO CLOSE: Listen & sing along with either “Communion” or “Jesus Paid It All” by our praise team: