4th & 5th Grade - March 2, 2014

March 2, 2014
Dear Families,
Today is our last Sunday to be studying the Gospel of John. Next Sunday, March 9^th, Carl Laney will be presenting a Power Point on The Life of Christ taken from all four Gospels, and we will have a celebration and drawing for another ice cream certificate.

Our goal from the beginning has been to give our students an understanding of Who Jesus Is, and what it means to Believe.

We have seen Jesus as, fully God and fully man, the Word, the Light of the world, the Bread of life, our Good Shepherd, the resurrection and the life, the Way the Truth and the Life, our substitute, our Savior and King.

We have defined Belief as trusting, relying on, putting our confidence in, and having faith in. It was a growing conviction and a growing faith for the disciples and it is the same for each one of us.
Our prayer is that each of us, students, teachers, and parents would continue to grown in our knowledge and love for Jesus and that we would share the truth of who He is and what He has done with others. In John Chapter 1 we learned that God sent Jesus into the world to bring light and life to mankind and in our last lesson today, the resurrected Jesus is sending the disciples into the world to carry the same message.

This week ask your students what the Truth is that Jesus wants us to know and what is the Truth Jesus want us to tell others. The following are some of the verses we memorized. They may help is answering those questions.

John 20:31 these things have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.
John 1:4 In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John 5:24 whoever hears my word and believe him who sent me has eternal life.
John 6: 33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
John 10:10 A thief comes to steal and kill and destroy; I came to give life, life in all its fullness.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they many know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Thank you for your support and partnership as we studied the Gospel of John,
Nancy and Severn