Welcome to Wright Ideas with Susan!
Today is part two of my Lazarus series with Bible Storytelling.
And I'm going to show you how you can use 5 questions to help you organize a 20-30 minute
Bible lesson.
So let's get started!
First I like to start my lesson with a bit of context.
I like to talk about the REAL TIME in history that it took place, the REAL PLACE that it
took place as well as the REAL PEOPLE who were there.
So I start my lesson that way.
And then what I would do, I would just go about telling the story that I crafted.
You can see that on part 1 if you want to have a look at that.
So I would tell the story through once and then I would say to the kids, "hey kids,
now I'm going to tell you the story a second time but this time I want you to think about
all the things that you learn about Jesus from this story.
So then, I would tell the story through again.
And then we would list up all the things that they learned about Jesus from the story.
And then I'd say, "Hey, one more time I'm going to tell you the story but this
time I want you to think about everything we can learn about the people, all the other
people in the story, what can we learn about them?"
And then I would tell the story through a third time.
And then we would list up all the things that they learned about the people from the story.
So I've gone through the story three times now.
And I just go straight into the next question.
Which is, "What is something that you like about the story?"
And it is such an easy one.
And if you have small group all the kids can answer.
What I like to do is I like to bring along little a microphone … and let them pass
around the microphone and tell one thing they liked about the story or I can get one someone
to be like a talk show host , if it's a big group and get different ones to talk about
the thing they liked the most using the feather duster or you can use, even if you don't
bring anything, you can use a texta or something like that as a little microphone for a bit
of fun and it gets them engaged as well.
Now before I go into questions 4 and 5, I like to do either a bit of SNAP CHAT DRAMA,
which you can see on my drama list, you can see examples there.
Or you can actually just get up and act it out.
Again, I would just tell the story and I would get the characters and get the kids up to
play the characters, act it out.
Now who doesn't love being wrapped up by toilet paper.
This is a great story to get them up and acting it out.
But if you're not keen on doing the drama thing, you can simply just show a video clip.
Now I've put together a playlist with lots of youtube clips that I found on the story
of Lazarus.
So you could just play one of those clips that suitable to the age that you are teaching.
And this helps again to focus their attention.
It gives a different voice to the story, but they are still learning about the Biblical story
So after we have done a drama or watched a clip then I go into questions 4 and 5.
And question 4 is this, "Is there something in this story that someone may not like?"
And then you list up their answers.
Now sometimes, I omit Question 4, it depends on the timing and how the lesson is going
and their attention span.
So sometimes I don't always use that question.
But it's a good one to have.
And then I go into question 5, which is the application question.
And I ask them, "Is there something about this story that you've learned that means
something to you… that teaches you something?"
And this is where you see the real learning happening.
Now, there are a few tips I'd like to mention here.
A lot of people will say, "It's just too hard to memorize a story".
And you know what?
I don't memorize the story.
It's because of learning this crafting process that I've somehow learned it so well that
it comes out in one form or another.
It never comes out the same way each time I tell it.
But I know it so well because of really diving into it and crafting the story.
But there is another way you can do this without having to craft a story.
You can just put the Scripture up on the board and you can highlight the bits of the story
that you want to read and do guided reading with the kids, then ask the question, then
read it through again, then ask the next question and so on.
Or another way you can do it is you can just use a children's Bible – The Beginners
Bible has a really short version of this story and great to use with young kids.
So you can just read it from the storybook, ask the question, read it again… that sort
of thing.
Or this one I really like.
I like the Big Picture Storybook Bible version of the Lazarus story.
It is really well done.
And I'm working on a clip on that one as well.
So check that one out if you can.
So there's other ways you can do Bible storytelling and use these 5 questions just using those
sorts of things to help you out.
I love this method, with the 5 questions and doing the story several times.
Because it allows God's Word to do the speaking.
God's Word speaks better than I ever will.
And you can see how the Holy Spirit begins to teach them for themselves.
These questions just spur them to think for themselves and grab from the Word of God for
themselves.
And works it really well.
But I do highly recommend getting to a Bible Storytelling Workshop.
I will put some links in the description below and you just google 'Bible storytelling'
and there are groups all over the world.
So check it out and I think you'll really love learning this skill.
If you found this video helpful, can you give it a thumbs up and let me know?
And once again, thanks so much for watching and may God bless you as encourage kids and
teach in such a way that they can learn from God's Word for themselves.
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