Trinity Kids Resource Pack

Sunday May 10th, Ephesians 2:6-10

Passage Pointers (helping you consider how you might read the Bible together as a family)

The kids talk today engages with Ephesians 2:6-7, as a way of engaging with the broader passage being covered in Paul's sermon (Ephesians 1:15-2:10). In Ephesians 2, the passage has a very neat structure: v1-3 outlines how we were dead in sin, v4-7 focusses on what God did to bring us to life by grace in Christ, and v8-10 reminds us that God’s grace means we aren’t saved by doing works, but we are saved to do the works which God has prepared in advance for us to do.

As a family, you might like to read through Ephesians 2:1-10 as a whole.

God Talk (Helping you chat through the passage and its implications)

Some questions as you work through the passage together:

• What’s the best gift you ever received? What made it so good?

• In v1, Paul says that we were dead in sins. What can dead people do?

• Why did God make us alive with Jesus? Why did he want to make us alive?

• What good works do you think God wants us to do now that we’re alive?

Thinking back to the talk:

• How do you feel that you are safe and sound next to Jesus, even when you can’t see him?

A possible stretch question for older children:

• Jesus is always with us, even though we can’t see him. How does Jesus’ being with you change:

• Who you sit with at school?

• How you treat your family at home?

Activity/Craft

• Play a game of musical chairs (you could use one of the songs suggested below). You could use this game to remind each other (after playing) that we always have a seat next to Jesus now because he has been raised from the dead.

• If you have a box (cardboard, shoe, etc) around, why not write on it and draw on it the gifts God has given you (according to Ephesians 2)? Wrap it up like a present and put it aside for a few days. Open it together as a family on Wednesday night at dinner.

• Write a thank you letter to God for the gift he has given you (Ephesians 2:8-10) - the gift saving us, making us alive with Jesus, and giving us seats next to Jesus, where we’re safe and sound.

• As we keep working on our memory verse, use the colouring in version of 1 Peter 1:3 (below) to help memorise it.

Suggested Songs • “He Is Risen” Colin Buchanan Boss of the Cross

• “He Lives” Colin Buchanan Boss of the Cross

• “Jesus Came to Earth” Bob Kauflin, Dave Campbell, Solomon Campbell Awesome God, Sovereign Grace Music

• “Doxology/Oh, Shout for Joy” Keith & Kristyn Getty, Getty Kids Hymnal - In

Christ Alone

In God’s great mercy he has given us new

birth into a living hope through the

resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

1 Peter 1:3