(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will discuss how God’s creative power displays His great love.
(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Provide a dry erase board and a dry erase marker.
Draw three columns on the board. Label the first column “Friends,” the second column “Family,” and the third column “Strangers.” Ask: What are ways that you show love to friends, family, and strangers? As students share their answers, write them in the corresponding columns.
After two to three minutes, enlist volunteers to look up the following verses and read them aloud: Genesis 1:27, Jeremiah 1:5, Job 33:4, Isaiah 64:8, and Ephesians 2:10. Ask: What do these 5 verses have in common? (Each verse deals with the power of God displayed through creation—specifically, His creation of each of us.)
Emphasize that God’s power through creation is an expression of His love. Say: Jeremiah 31:3 says, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” God gave us life because He loved us. And God loved us before He gave us life.