Tips for Teaching This Week’s Session of The Gospel Project for Adults

Every week for Volume 4: From Captivity to the Wilderness, Ken Braddy, Lifeway’s director of Sunday School, will offer guidance to help leaders prepare to lead and teach each session of The Gospel Project for Adults.

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This week’s training notes:

This week, your group will be studying Unit 6, Session 3, An Ungrateful People, which focuses on how God is right to judge rebellion, yet still provides grace and mercy. The Israelites grumble and speak out against God in their impatience and though God brought judgment through poisonous snakes, He also brought healing through a bronze snake.

So this week, here are your three things to know, watch, and do as you prepare for this week’s session:

Something to know

The story of the poisonous snakes and healing bronze snake reminds us of how God continues to rescue people from death through Jesus Christ. Spend additional time exploring the connection between God’s remedy here and His remedy for sin and death through Christ by reading the commentary for point 3 on page 147, as well as the extra commentary and illustration for point 3 on page 151 of your leader guide.

Something to watch

For something to watch, we’ve included a link to a sermon by Bobby Lewis in the Additional Resources called Look and Live. One of his main ideas is that man’s ways bring discouragement and man’s ways bring dissension… But God’s ways bring deliverance. God provided one way for the Israelites to be saved and He provides one way for us to be saved.

Something to do

In our present culture, complaining is a common practice. Seems like there are endless things to grumble about. But in our complaints and grumbling, we forget the blessings and gifts God has given us. Even though we’re past Thanksgiving, try to make a point of finding one thing to be thankful for for the next week. Write them down each day, meditate on them, and write down how that changes your emotions or thoughts for the day. Reveal your answers to your group at your next meeting and challenge your group to do the same. When we’re grateful, especially in God’s gift of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ, we will see the world and our current struggles and complaints in a new way.