Sunday School on Joshua Activity

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Sunday School on Joshua Activity

Into the Lesson

As students arrive, offer each a choice: either apencil or a penny. After all have made choices,say, "I'm going to show you both sides of sixcards. Pick one letter of the two from each cardand write it down. When we're finished, we'll seeif anyone has a key word from today's study." Be-fore class prepare six large cards with the follow-ing pairs of letters front and back: A, C (card 1); K,H (card 2); 0, S (card 3); D, 0 (card 4); S, T (card5): E. Y (card 6). Show the cards in the ordergiven. Make certain all students see both sides.After you have revealed all six cards and eachstudent has chosen six letters, ask, "Does anyonesave the six letters that—taken in sequence—spell the key word?" (The word is CHOOSE.) If noone has the word, ask, "Does anyone think he orshe knows what the word is?" After the word hasbeen revealed, comment on the choice each student had at the beginning: one choice was criticalto success while the other was inconsequential.

Into the Word

Read aloud Joshua 8:30-35 to remind yourclass of the appropriate location for the assemblydescribed in today's text from Joshua 24. Empha-size the division of the Israelite people into two'amen choruses." (See the commentary, for verse1.) Divide your class into two sides. (This can bedone without anyone physically moving.) Re-cruit two of your good oral readers to share in areading of today's text in the manner that fol-lows. with pauses for "amen" responses from thehalf of the class assigned to each reader.

Reader One (RI): Now therefore fear the Lordand serve him in sincerity and truth.
Reader Two (R2): Put away the gods whichyour fathers served on the other side of the flood.
and in Egypt.

R1 & R2: Serve ye the Lord.

RI: And if it seem evil unto you to serve theLord, choose you this day whom ye will serve.R2: Whether the gods which your fathersserved that were on the other side of the flood, orthe gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell,RI & R2: but as for me and my house, we willserve the Lord.

RI: And the people answered and said, Godforbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serveother gods.

R2: For the Lord our God, he it is that broughtno up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt,from the house of bondage, and which did thosegreat signs in our sight, and preserved us in allthe way wherein we went, and among all thepeople through whom we passed.
And the Lord drave out from before us allthe people, even the Amorites which dwelt inthe land.

RI & R2: Therefore will we also serve theLord; for he is our God.

R2: And Joshua said unto the people, Ye can-not serve the Lord: for he is a holy God; he is ajealous God; he will not forgive your transgres-sions nor your sins.

RI: If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strangegods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and con-sume you, after that he bath done you good.

RI & 1.12: And the people said unto Joshua,Nay; but we will serve the Lord.

R2: And Joshua said unto the people, Ye arewitnesses against yourselves that ye have chosenyou the Lord, to serve him.

RI&R2: And they said, We are witnesses.
131: Now therefore put away, said he, thestrange gods which are among you, and inclineyour heart unto the Lord God of Israel.

RI & R2: And the people said unto Joshua,The Lord our God will we serve, and his voicewill we obey.

Into Life

Prepare and distribute copies of the followingstatement, on business card stock if possible: "Iwill serve the Lord ... TODAY!" Ask class mem-bers to carry or post the card where they will seeit often. Suggest that they read it aloud at leastonce a day.

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