What's the difference?

Our Art Poster entitled “Encourager Praises” was a big hit in the class yesterday. We’ll leave it up and add to it this Sunday as well. Below is a picture our completed poster (4'x5' bulletin board covered and decorated).

This week’s lesson “Loved by God” from Romans 8:28-39 aims to help us realize the difference in trusting God and not trusting God in life’s circumstances. I’d start with the pictured PowerPoint slide and read an excerpt from the article Early Care Providers Struggle to ReOpen.

The proprietor said, “I don’t think I can take this.” There is no mention of God in the article and when asked “If you could have any one thing you needed right now, what would it be?” He said, “A building.”

Give a little more background to the story and then ask the class if they were suddenly thrust into that situation, what is the one thing they would ask for? Draw out where trust is placed—in God, in others, in themselves, in things, etc. Use this to introduce the lesson.

Just getting started, if I imagine the end goal of the lesson it would be a “T chart” (scroll down to see other organizers such as a “comparison matrix”) where the issue is “with or without God”. What's the difference?