Day 5 :: Stuck
A
big part of being a BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) Children’s Leader is the
preparation homework we are required to do.
It involves writing up the story we will tell, preparing questions to
ask, selecting hymns, and developing introduction sentences that tie the hymns
to the day’s lesson.
I frequently get
stuck writing the story. Sometimes it is
because there are so many things I want to include and I am not sure how to say
them without making the story too long for a fourteen-month-old. Other times, it is because the concepts are
complex and we need to keep the vocabulary simple. And sometimes it is because there really
doesn’t seem to be much of a story.
BSF
really takes the children through the Bible in a way much deeper than what
Sunday School at church does. For
example, at church, we covered Moses’s birth, God calling Moses, the plagues,
Passover, and the parting of the Red Sea all in one week. In contrast, in BSF, we took six weeks to
cover that material in BSF, piece by piece.
This week the story was about God telling Moses about the Promised Land,
so there was really no narrative. That gets
difficult when I am trying to write up a story that someone less than two will
understand. The up-side is that the process of trying to sort out what to say
and how to say it to kids forces me to think about the Bible in new ways in
order to get unstuck.
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