Follow-up: Advent Week 1

Story: Jesus is Coming! The birth of Christ foretold

Fundamental Truth: God is Good

Making it Real:
When sin entered the world, everything changed. God’s perfect world became imperfect. God’s very good creation, people, became lost in their own sin and separated from God. But God is good, and from the beginning gave us hope that sin would not win. For hundreds, even thousands of years God gave us clues about Jesus. Why didn’t God send Jesus immediately after sin came into the world?
The whole time that God waited to send Jesus, He was preparing His people to receive Him. God was making us ready for the promised Rescuer. God was showing us why it was necessary that Jesus bridge the gap to God. He was showing us how we can never be good enough to get to God alone. He was making us see that there is no other way, no other hope, but Jesus Christ.

Making it Stick:
Make up an easy recipe with your child. Have them choose a few ingredients for the recipe and blend or cook the ingredients together. After you’ve tasted what you made, have your child change 1 or 2 of the ingredients and cook again. Talk about how each ingredient is unique and adds to the taste. Talk about how if you change one thing, the result is different. Talk through how God gave us very specific prophesies that all resulted in Jesus and His saving work.