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Have you ever felt overwhelmed at helping your family follow Jesus and explore the Bible? This lesson is designed to act as an advance organizer for discipleship. An advance organizer is basically a framework that lays a foundation for growth. First, it makes sure students know the basics. Then, it helps them make meaningful connections to new concepts as they see where those concepts fit on that framework.
Whether you continue with OneStory’s resources or use resources from other ministries, we hope this two-part lesson will help your students see the big picture of what the Bible is teaching and how they can enter into this story.
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*This lesson guides students through the StoryMap in the back window of our Bible Binder
with resources from BibleProject
Have you ever felt overwhelmed at helping your family follow Jesus? It’s not just that we are all navigating life in an increasingly complex world. It’s also that we have access to so many great resources on so many topics! We wonder how on earth we can cover the bases, much less help our kids make sense of it all.
This lesson is designed to act as an advance organizer for discipleship. An advance organizer is basically a framework that lays a foundation for growth. First, it makes sure students know the basics. Then, it helps them make meaningful connections to new concepts as they see where those concepts fit on that framework.
We call our advance organizer the StoryMap. The StoryMap is simply a continued visualization of the Bible’s own advance organizer: Genesis 1-11. As the introduction to the Bible, Genesis 1-11 lays out a storied pattern of how God and Humanity relate to one another. As a story, it has a plot, a crisis, and a goal. However, it also lays out a pattern. The story Genesis 1-5 repeats itself in Genesis 6-11. This pattern then echoes throughout the entire Bible.
Mapping the pattern helps us:
Whether you continue with OneStory’s resources or use resources from other ministries, we hope this two-part lesson will help your students see the big picture of what the Bible is teaching and how they can enter into this story.
The Bible tells a huge story about how God is partnering with people for His will to be done “on earth as it is in heaven.” It’s invitation to follow Jesus beckons us to frame our lives in a story of adventure, with life in God’s presence as the treasure at its center.
But adventures are journeys that take us through a wide variety of situations and terrains. In fact, the word adventure comes from Latin words which mean “to arrive” or “about to happen.” Yes, the Bible — and its invitation to follow Jesus — is taking us somewhere. However, the Bible also shows us that the route to that destination follows a repeated pattern.
What is the pattern that happens in every part of this adventure?
One Echoing Story is a single foundational lesson broken up into 2 parts:
Depending on the age, attention span, and setting of your students, it can be taught in the following ways:
This lesson is designed to be read aloud. It is possible to present this lesson as a one-hour workshop for mature students. However, the younger the student and the more relaxed the setting, the more they will benefit from a slower pace.
Expect to spend approximately 20-25 minutes on each part of the lesson. Times will vary according to speaking speed and student dynamics.
After completing this lesson, we recommend moving on to the Giver of Rest curriculum.