tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7276278342039529509.post6130003979344125950..comments2024-03-18T00:53:33.065+11:00Comments on in all honesty: reading the whole Bible to our children (2) guest postJeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01538502318975037711noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7276278342039529509.post-71470789058182006032017-05-09T22:20:03.002+10:002017-05-09T22:20:03.002+10:00Hello! I know this is a comment written a long tim...Hello! I know this is a comment written a long time after this blog post...but my husband and I teach su day school to K-3rd graders and we are using a curriculum called "What's in the Bible" and goes thrpugh the whole story of the Bible for the kids so they understand the whole story of God's "rescue plan". My husband and I fill in a lot of the gaps during a fiscussion time inbetween the teaching videos. We believe similarly to you, that it is important to talk about the whole Bible, even the hard parts because it shows the severity of sin and truly shows how loving God is when we understand how wretched we are from sin. We don't necessarily focus on how terrible we are because of our sin, but how awesomr and amazing God is that he died so we can have eternal life with him! We recently had a parent whoes child definitely misinterpreted a side not we had said. At some point when telling the kids the gospel we had mentioned that after Judas had betrayed Jesus for money he took his own life because he realozed how meaningless life was without Jesus and that the money he had recieved from it was not wirth it in the end. (This was not the focus of the story...obviously, but the child seemed to focus on it.) Ling story short, the parent was pretty upset that we would talk about suicide in sunday school with 1st graders. I was confused because I did not remember talking about suicide (because it was never a focus point, but something that came up in the bible). She thibks it is innapropriate to talk about and wants us to just leave those parts out - Judas taking his life and Saul falling on his sword. I have been praying about it and discussing with my husband if we were and the wrong and should "sensor" our sunday school class to leave out those parts. As Sunday school teachers of a class of about 13 kids, do you (or anyone else) think we should leave that out and let the topic come up with parents? I would be love the clarification. Thank youFitness 9:24https://www.blogger.com/profile/04505273760677663053noreply@blogger.com