Caring

How do you plan to introduce this week’s lesson, “A Caring Community”, which is based on Matthew 18:1-35? How about putting together a self-test as exemplified on this page?

Starting yesterday’s lesson on the topic of nicknames was very useful. Some names mentioned were “Buddy”, “Handsome”, and “Lightning Bug”. The room was full of good will as we talked about various member nicknames. The exercise had all of us thinking about the topic of identity, which fit hand in glove with the lesson.

Perhaps you can do a similar thing this week by opening with a question asking members to relate a story they remember about participating in a church service project while growing up, or even as an adult.

Another approach might be to ask members to complete the sentence: “I feel cared about when…?”