Parables on Who and How We Should Love

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Jesus came to Earth to teach us how to live in a way that pleased God. This is a story Jesus told his followers to help them to understand how we should show love to others. 

Key Concepts:
1. God wants us to show to love to everyone. 
2. Jesus taught us to love our enemies. 
3. When we serve others, we please God. 

Memory Verse

Matthew 13:34-35
​34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. 35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:
“I will open my mouth in parables,
    I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”

Songs

New Testament Books
J-E-S-U-S
Big Big House
You're My Brother
​If You Love Jesus
Love is Something If Give It Away Song

Story

Begin Class with Songs, Games, Table Activity, or Sharing Time

Open Class in Prayer

Introducing the Story Ideas
1. Help children think of ways to help someone in need. This could be a class project. Perhaps collecting food or items for the poor.
​2.  Let one child volunteer be the injured person and show the class how to do simple first aid (plasters, cleaning and bandaging wounds, etc.)

Read Luke 10:25-37 or tell them the story of the Good Samaritan. 

Visual Aids

The Good Samaritan by Saddleback Kids

God's Story: The Samaritan 

The Good Samaritan Printable Images

Review Questions

1. What is the greatest commandment? To love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength, and with all your mind.
2. After loving God, what is the second greatest commandment? To love your neighbour as yourself.
3. Why is the Samaritan man in Jesus’ parable called the “Good Samaritan”? He stopped and helped the man who had been robbed and hurt.
4. According to Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan, who is your neighbour? Anyone who needs help.
5. What would it cost you to live like this good Samaritan?
6. Who is your neighbor? Name specific people and how you are going to act like Jesus would to them.
7. What kinds of people in need does the Church tend to overlook?

God is...

Connect the story back to God and his character. Explain how this story fits into God's overall story. ​

Activities

Good Samaritan Bandage Craft Kit

Good Samaritan Sign

I Can Be A Good Samaritan Craft