Week 1018 · about 45 minutes
Luke 15
Luke 15 · Memory verse Luke 15:10
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Luke 15), the matching word search and answer key (Luke 15 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a seed
Hold a seed. Read Luke 15 in about four minutes, stopping at Luke 15:10: “Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Luke 15?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Luke 15 is a real chapter from the New Testament. It starts, “Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!” Luke 15 opens with these words: “Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.” The line to keep is Luke 15:10: “Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”” Carry the word “tell” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Luke 15:10: “Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Luke 15? Then try this: Read “Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Luke 15. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Luke 15:10. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Luke 15 and write Luke 15:10 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Luke 15:10
“Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.””
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Luke 15. Help us remember Luke 15:10 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.