The Great Shema
Our Greatest Confession & Commandments

Lesson 1 - What is our Greatest Confession?

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  • The LORD is my God. The LORD is one.

    Confession

  • Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.'"

    Memory Verse: Mark 12:29

  • "Hear, O Israel, The LORD is our God, the LORD is one."

    Deuteronomy 6:4

  • These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to you children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

    Deuteronomy 5:6–9

IN THIS LESSON

your child will learn about our most important statement that we must declare in belief. The statement includes an assertion about our relationship with God & his fundamental characteristic.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Download the handouts.

  2. Look up the passage of Scripture.

  3. Read the passage of Scripture.

  4. Pray for understanding from the Holy Spirit.

  5. Explain each word or phrase using the Teaching Handout.

  6. For young children give them the coloring page to color.

  7. For older children give them the markup worksheet.

  8. For imaginative children, give them the blank worksheet.

  9. Instruct them to follow the pattern or draw/write thoughts, images & other ideas that come to their minds in response to the passage of Scripture.

  10. Memorize the passage of Scripture.

  11. Spend a week on this passage of Scripture. Some nights might just be a simple review.

  12. Close in prayer.

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURE

  1. Exodus 3:1–22

  2. Deuteronomy 6:4–9

  3. Matthew 22:34–40

  4. Mark 12:28–34

  5. Luke 10:25–28

COLORING WORD RELATIONSHIPS

HANDOUTS