Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2018
- Devotion 2: Due Jan. 8. Take lessons learned from Devotion 1 as you write this. Re-read the instructions (this lists your Devotion 2 Book Choices). Start this early to make it good!
Journal: Study Packet, Page 5
- Work on “Studying Jeremiah 10:11-16” (page 5)
- - Follow the instructions on top to read the verses & answer the questions below.
- Done early? Work on…
- - Page 4, Study for Friday’s quiz
- - Pages 6-7, “Studying the Bible’s Story of Creation”
- - Page 8-9a, “A Reflection on Biblical Accounts of God as our Maker”
- - Page 13, Answer these questions based on your Student Workbook
- - Page 14, Answer these questions based on the Creation & Evolution poster in the back of the room
- - Page 15, Review the notes on these Great Christian Scientists
Quiz 5a Preparation:
- Your Verses: Jeremiah 10:12, 14-15
- - Idols: An object meant to represent a god
- - Delusion: An insulting, foolish, & incorrect copy of something
- - Perish: To be destroyed
- Your Questions: Based upon class discussion & your personal reflection of these verses, use complete sentences & your own words to specifically answer:
- - 1) What qualities did God use when he made the world? Explain what it meant for Him to use these.
- Power:
- - This emphasizes that God has the strength & ability to actually make the word
- - God was able to create the entire universe with all of its matter and energy/power
- Wisdom & Understanding: (I consider these to be the same for the purpose of this question)
- - God knew how to best use His creative skills
- - God ‘cleverly discerned’ the best choices to make in putting the world & universe together.
- - 2) Explain why these verses say such tough things about us when we try to make substitutions for the real God.
- The verses say that people who worship idols are “stupid and without knowledge” (v14)
- - This means that they lack good sense, wisdom, understanding, & discernment (especially in spiritual things)
- Why do you think it says this? Here are some biblical ideas that answer this question...
- - Our ‘substitutions for God’ are not real!
- - - In the end they will be destroyed.
- - - They have no real life or power in them!
- - - Trusting in these things is foolish…they can’t actually help us!
- - If God actually is the all-powerful Creator of all!
- - - He has revealed Himself & He offers us a relationship
- - - He promises to be with us & help us through life
- - - He actually has the power to make a difference now and in our life to come!
- - - See v16 for the emphasis on how God offers us a relationship.
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