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 4, Session 4, God Shows His Faithfulness, which focuses on how God is faithful to keep His word, demonstrated most of all in the fulfillment of His promise to provide Christ Jesus.

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

Something to know

We spent a little bit of time last week talking about God’s faithfulness in how He saves His people with the Exodus story. We continue to spend more time on His faithfulness this week because it is essential to our own faithfulness to God. As we are in the Christmas season, spend extra time exploring the details of the Christmas story by reading the commentary for point 2 on page 49. It’s easy to read through the Christmas story without taking time to study the significance of the details. Every character, every event is purposeful in seeing how God orchestrated time and history to bring Jesus to be a Savior for all. With the day of Epiphany coming, celebrating the arrival of the wise men, help your group read the full Christmas story with open eyes to the wonder of God’s faithfulness in history and in our lives.

Something to watch

For something to watch, we’ve included a link to this sermon by Raudel Hernandez in the Additional Resources on Repentance. Raudel preaches on how hidden sin will kill the soul; whereas confessed sin will heal the soul, looking through the text of Psalm 51. Though God is always faithful to forgive, He wants us to repent, to turn, from our ways of sin and return into fellowship with Him.

Something to do

Consider playing the video “How is God Faithful?” one of the 99 Essential Doctrines. It’s only one minute and 43 seconds so there is plenty of time to show it during your group time. It reveals, in simple terms, what ‘faithful’ means and how God has been faithful to His people throughout generations and how He continues to be so in our lives.