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 3, God Saves His People, which focuses on how God is the One who wins the victory for His people. He is always victorious in all His plans. He directs, fights for, and delivers His people.

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

Something to know

The contrast between light and darkness is a dramatic one that can allude to a variety of themes and motifs for stories, movies, and life itself. Good and evil, justice and judgment, life and death. Spend additional time exploring the details of the pillar of cloud and fire that was darkness for the Egyptians but light for God’s people (Ex. 14:20) by reading the commentary for point 2 on page 37, as well as the extra commentary and illustrations on page 42-43 of your leader guide. Be advised that although there are many allusions and symbolic imagery in these passages, remind your group that they are also reading real-life history, a history of God and His people. And through God’s deliverance, we understand He planned the ultimate deliverance through Christ, and continues to deliver us from temptation and sin today.

Something to read

For something to read, we’ve included a link to this devotional in the Additional Resources called The Exodus from Egypt. One of the writer’s points is that “God is pleased to do things that we might not expect in order to advance His purposes.” This is a great point that many in your group would resonate with that you could use as an additional discussion question.

Something to do

Consider playing a game like Minute to Win It, such as selecting two players to put cotton balls into a bowl with only a spoon determining who can do it faster. (Other available games are searchable online.) Make the point that we are taking the longer, harder way to do something, but we are doing it for fun or our own glory. But God sometimes takes the longer, harder path but because He is all-knowing, He does so with good purposes and for His glory. When we look at our life or the life of our church, we can see Him orchestrating events in ways we might not understand, but it is all for His kingdom purposes for He is always faithful to us.