10:30am – BMC Junior Church – Theme: Roots, Children of God.
John 3.1-17
Speaking to Nicodemus late at night, Jesus says that to see the kingdom of God, one must be born of water and the Spirit, and to receive eternal life one must believe in God’s only Son.
This week’s resources explore: how we experience God as Father, Son and Spirit.
10:30am – BMC Junior Church – Theme: Roots, A house not madewith hands.
In the face of suffering and persecution, Paul encourages the Christians in Corinth never to lose heart and always to praise and trust God. He reminds them that this life is a preparation for the eternal glory of heaven.
This week’s resources explore: what is visible is temporary, what is eternal is invisible.
10:30am – BMC Junior Church – Theme: Roots, A new perspective.
2 Corinthians 5.6-10(11-13)14-17
Paul says that our aim should always be to please the Lord, in this life and the next. Christ died for us, and we should die to the ways of the world for him. In Christ, we are a new creation.
This week’s resources explore: if anyone is in Christ, everything has become new.
10:30am – BMC Junior Church – Theme: Roots, Open wide your hearts.
Paul tells the Corinthians that they are God’s servants and co-workers. Paul’s sufferings as a Christian should bind the church community together, not drive it apart.
This week’s resources explore: being God’s servants and co-workers.
10:30am – BMC Junior Church – Theme: Roots, My grace is sufficient.
Paul writes about being ‘caught up into Paradise’, but declines to boast about it. Instead he focuses on his ‘thorn in the flesh’ because it makes him boast only about his weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in him.
This week’s resources explore: how God uses perceived weaknesses as a source of strength and blessing.