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What can you remember?
Where would you place the following…
God
Father
Son
Spirit
The creator of all things
The power and presence of God
God in the flesh
What can you remember?
The creator of all things
The power and presence of GodGod in the flesh
The Incarnation
Learning Objective: To understand the concept of the incarnation.
To understand the term
incarnation.
To explain why God became
human.
This lesson we will be focusing on the God in the flesh aspect of the trinity.
To explore how God became
human.
Nativity!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_lLpFYdKj8
What is the Nativity all
about?
Incarnation
Keyword: Incarnation
God in human flesh/form.
The Nativity story is all about God becoming
human and taking on a human body.
This is God the Son.
The Incarnation
Learning Objective: To understand the concept of the incarnation.
To understand the term
incarnation.
Are you able to explain the term
incarnation?
Challenge!!!
You have five minutes as a table group to create the Nativity using play-doh.
WHO WHERE
WHAT
The Nativity Story
Did you have any of the following?
Did you have anything else in your scene?
Spot the Difference
There are a number of different accounts in the Bible on the birth of Jesus (God incarnate).
Can you spot any similarities and differences between the two stories?
VS.
Highlight the similarities in one colour and the differences in another.
Fact Vs Fiction
Now compare the Bible accounts to our traditional view of a nativity
scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-4y5mK_o9E
Does it matter?
Whatever story you read about the nativity, for Christians the most important thing is the
message behind it.
What can we learn about Jesus through the nativity story?
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The Incarnation
Learning Objective: To understand the concept of the incarnation.
To understand the term
incarnation.
To explore how God became
human.
Why did God become incarnate?
What can you remember from Years 7 and 8?
Does this jog your memory?
Why did God become incarnate?
SIN
JE USGod Humans
Jesus came to earth to offer
humans a chance to get back to
God.
The Fall
Humans needed to find a way back to God after the Fall.
The story of Adam (which means man) and Eve (which means mother ) in the garden of Eden (representing the world when it was perfect, before humans messed it up) is a story which is in a sense about all of us –
how despite knowing right from wrong - we still choose to do the wrong thing by being
selfish and greedy.
That causes a problem!
Sin
Everyone is sinful, therefore everyone “falls “ like Adam.
It seemed impossible to be perfect.
In those days, they thought it meant that you would be sent to the place of “wailing and gnashing of teeth” or Gehenna, a place like
the rubbish tip outside Jerusalem that burned day and night.
It seemed impossible to escape punishment after death.
Until Jesus!
Christians believe that God was incarnated. He was God become flesh.
Some people say Jesus is like a window through
which you can see God.
He was like God because however much he was tempted to do the wrong thing and
disobey god, in the end he did what he believed
was right. He was obedient.
Until Jesus!
Christians believed that Jesus was perfect. Not because he never did anything wrong -
but because in the end he did the right thing, he was obedient. He made the
ultimate sacrifice – he gave his life to save humans from
sin.
Congratulations!!!
Jesus
Write a card to Mary and Joseph to congratulate them on the
birth of their baby boy.
Include the following words in your card:
Incarnation/Incarnate
3 Gifts
Wedge of Sin
Final Thoughts
If you were God, would you have sent your Son to
earth?