8F5

Today we compared Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth with Matthew’s.

You devised a play, a poster and a story-board to represent these things and drew out some similarities and differences between them.

For homework you were asked to write down two examples of things that are one thing, yet many. For example:

• An iPhone is one unit, yet it is a phone, a music player, a camera and a web-browser all-in-one!
• A swiss army knife is a knife, a saw, a nail-file, a tooth-pick and more in one little box!

Can you write down two examples of the same kind of thing?

Some of you produced some great “unexpected rescue” stories. I’ve picked four of my favourites to share with you.

First up is Amber who wrote a nice little tale about being caught by the police:

Then Jordan T wrote me a rap and drew a nice illustration to go with it:

I got a really tense story from Chris:

And David wrote me two stories about dangers in the sea:

Finally, Ryan created this:

Today we heard a story about an unexpected rescue from a squirrel! You wrote your own stories about an unexpected rescue and I’ll scan some in for you to look at soon…

We also heard the story of the Jewish hope for a rescue at the time of Jesus and that Jesus was an unexpected rescuer for them…

Your homework was to read from either Matthew or Luke’s story of Jesus’ birth. Did you know that of the four Gospels (life-stories of Jesus) only two of them mention his birth?

If you were supposed to be reading Matthew’s version you can find it in Matthew 1:18-2:23.

If you were reading Luke’s version you need Luke 1:26-38 and 2:1-20

Make sure you’ve read this before next week. If you didn’t write down which one to read or weren’t at the lesson just pick one or the other…

Today we spent some time telling the story of Jesus’ birth and then each of you responded in whichever way you saw fit. Some of you made hats, some modelled with clay, some wrote something, some played with the figures some more, some asked questions.

Some of the best questions were things like:

• Why did God choose to send Jesus at that particular time in history?
• If God made Jesus then who made God? (And no, it’s not you, Terry)
• How could the wise men follow a star?

David made a lovely clay angel:

This is the start of a section on work on what Christians called the “Incarnation”, which means “becoming flesh”. We’ll be exploring what Christians mean when they say that Jesus came in human flesh and dwelt among us.