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January 29, 2006
ADULTS
Topic: Practicing Justice and Mercy
Key Verse: 1 Timothy 5:1-2
Print: 1 Timothy 5:1-8, 17-24
-Communities are called upon to provide systems of care
for their members.
-The community of faith must devise ways and means of
just resolution of problems and issues.
-Preferential treatment of some over others can cause
conflict in the community.
-Christians are to deport themselves in ways that
demonstrate justice and mercy.
YOUTH
Topic: God's Family
Key Verse: 1 Timothy 5:8
Print: 1 Timothy 5:1-8,17-24
-God is concerned about how we treat persons in need.
-We are accountable to God relative to how we treat one
another.
-Paul advised Timothy on how to treat older and younger
church members.
-Those who do not provide for family members are worse
than unbelievers.
CHILDREN
Topic: Good Leaders Respect Others
Key Verse: Luke 19:10
Print: Luke 19:1-10, 1 Timothy 5:25
-Jesus did not call the qualified, but qualified the
ones He called.
-Jesus ministered to the lost and calls His disciples
today to do likewise.
-Jesus expanded His kingdom of love by restoring the
esteem and confidence of sinners.
-Christians should live godly lives be cause good and
bad deeds will eventually be revealed.
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this lesson, students should:
1. Affirm the biblical principle of mutual respect for
one another in the body of Christ.
2. Know the importance of leaders, and resolve to treat
members of the body of Christ with dignity.
3. Insist upon the purity in relationships that enhances
the ministry of the local church.
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