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Fall 2018 Leader Tips: Unit 3, Session 1—God’s Mercy to a Deceiver

| Josh Hayes

In the videos below, Brian Dembowczyk and Aaron Armstrong (Adults), Andy McLean (Students), and Jeremy Carroll (Kids) coach leaders on teaching Fall 2018, Unit 3, Session 1—God’s Mercy to a Deceiver. Tips and videos for previous lessons are available on the The Gospel Project Blog. You can also check out the Additional Resources page for podcast recommendations and blog posts related to this week’s subject matter. To view a comprehensive list of the studies for this three-year cycle of The Gospel Project, see our All Ages Chronological Study Plan (which includes Scripture references for each weekly session). Every week, we provide interactive teaching helps and additional ideas / activities for The Gospel Project for Adults sessions. Click TGP Fall 2018 Unit 3, Session 1 to access the Session 1 interactive teaching suggestions. https://vimeo.com/279048720

About Josh Hayes

Josh Hayes is Content and Production Editor for The Gospel Project for Adults. He earned a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary and a M.Div. in Christian Ministry from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to working in print media for more than a decade, Josh is an adjunct professor at Union University and Westminster Theological Seminary. Residing in the Nashville area with his wife and children, he has also been an active teacher in his local church for several years.

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  1. Jill Johnson says

    I LOVE TGP. Love it! But there’s a big wrinkle for us with this unit! We have 3 services, using shared space/classrooms for Kids Ministry (gr 1-5). Our Large Group lessons share one.single.space over those 3 services. We dec it out for the theme of each unit. So here’s my wrinkle, or rather WRINKLE. We are prepped to decorate for a barnyard theme per the older/younger guides – and to my huge dismay I just discovered that the worship theme is plumbing company / toilets. UGH! Seriously guys?! I’m not sure what to do other than invest time into reworking the script relative to that part of the worship guide dialogue to match a barnyard theme. (insert a thousand crying face emoji’s here.)
    For churches like ours, who must use a shared large group space and do our utmost to honor the theme, can you PLEASE consolidate that between younger/older/worship guides?

  2. Jill says

    Feeling contrite after my knee-jerk response. My apologies to all who may be reading it.
    I very much appreciate the good thought & guidance God gives the curriculum writers. I know the end result I see, comes after much prayer, creative thinking, and likely long days. I was remiss to forget that when responding to a small inconvenience. It’s not a WRINKLE. It’s not even a wrinkle. It’s barely a 6-pt font wrinkle.
    We’ll make the theme co-exist: our plumbers and ponderers over yearbooks will just live among farmers & farmland.
    Thank you and please be of good cheer in spite of TGP kids min fellow laborers crabbing at you. (I’m sorry!)

    • Brian Dembowczyk says

      Hi, Jill. That was an oversight—the theme is supposed to align between all kids resources in a unit. So we apologize for making it difficult for that unit. Two possible suggestions: (1) Decorate part of your shared space for each theme or (2) Add in a line of script in the plumbing scenario that they are at a farm for a plumbing repair job. We know that isn’t ideal, but perhaps that will help out.