While, I may have taught the kids in my Sunday School about Jesus heals a paralytic ages ago, I just recently taught this to my kids.
I’ve always thought this story was cool, I mean what a story of friendship to carry your friend across town, and then up to the roof and dig a hole in the roof.
So, I decided to let the kids have a go at carrying their friend. I thought about letting them carry each other……. But knew that wouldn’t end well. Then I thought we could let them carry Mac upstairs.
That’s what Mac thought of that idea. He jumped out of the blanket quite fast.
Finally, they ended up carrying up their stuffed animals, not as hard, but still a challenge to get 3 kids to walk together.
And, when they got to the top, guess what they wanted to do?
Yep. So, we tied a rope around the blanket, and the boys carefully took turns lowering their poor injured shark and bear over the edge. Princess’ dog was very quickly snatched away.
Considering Batman’s method of healing was to hit the “bag” with his wand as hard as he could and yell, “You are HEALED!” I don’t really blame her.
So, question for ya’ll. I’m thinking about designing a family Bible study with questions divided out by age categories and some extra fun activities thrown in. What do ya’ll look for in a Bible study, both for yourself and for your kids? I’m not trying to design a major inductive study, but something that could be done together.
Great way to bring the Bible alive!
For me (or should I say for M) it's important to have those basic, obvious questions. Of course, a personal application is important, too.
Good thing they switched to STUFFED animals before they got to the top 😉
I bet they'll never forget this Bible story now!
We always enjoy reading this story too. I never thought of acting it out. Too cute.
Pretty sure they will always remember this story! great idea!
Maybe one of the themes you could bring out in questions is “how does this story point to the need for Jesus?” Even all the OT stories lead to Jesus and our need for Him.
I LOVE acting- I LOVE the Bible- I LOVE silliness- in turn, I LOVE this activity!
(Oh, TOTALLY design the family Bible Study! I am sure it will be EXCELLENT!)
This reminded me of my visit to Lourdes in France. It's like Disneyland for Catholics, even the main church looks like a Disney castle. It looks like your Bible lesson took a turn to physics of pulleys 🙂
This is very similar to how I always taught this story, except minus the stairs and rope. Love the way you incorporated those items though.
LOL — Maryanne's comment cracked me up!
Looks like they had lots of fun!!!!