People
Barnabas in Acts 4
BAR-nuh-bus
This person shows up in Acts 4:36: “Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real person in a real place.
Acts 4:36
“Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,”
What kids can learn
When you hear barnabas in Acts, remember the sentence around it. God put this person in the story on purpose.
Read Acts 4:36 again tomorrow and ask what the person is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Acts 4:36
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
whobytheapostleswasalsocalled(whichis,beinginterpreted,SonofEncouragement),aLevite,amanofbyrace,