You Are a Nation
- What nations do you know of?
- How many people usually live in a nation?
- Do you know that you are a nation?
- How many friends do you have?
- Do you know that your friends also have friends?
- Do you know that there are also people around you who learn from you without letting you know about it?
- Draw a picture of a tree of people learning from you, directly and indirectly, using only two people at a time.
- Based on the tree you have drawn, how many people do you really need to change an entire nation?
- When you teach one person, how many people are you really teaching?
- What is the reason for your answer?
- When you hear gossip, and you share the gossip with another person, how many people are you really sharing the gossip with?
- What is the reason for your answer?
- When you show kindness to one person, how many people are you really showing kindness to?
- What is the reason for your answer?
- When you make one person angry, how many people are you really making angry?
- What is the reason for your answer?
- How should you conduct yourself before others, now that you know that you are a nation?
- What is the reason for your answer?
- What can you say to another nation when you meet them, that will benefit the people of that nation?
- What can you teach another nation when you meet them, that will benefit the people of that nation?
- Why did God say that Abraham would be the father of many nations even though he had no children? Genesis 17:5
5 Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, because I am making you the ancestor of many nations.
- Is God concerned with merely having many children, or is God concerned with what you pass down to your children? Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
- How did God intend to bless all the nations of the world through Abrahama's offspring? Genesis 22:17-18
17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
- Why did God make Abraham grow incredibly old before giving him the offspring through whom the nations of the world would be blessed?
- How many children were in the womb of Rebecca? Genesis 25:20-23
20 Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel (an Aramean from Mesopotamia) and sister of Laban. 21 Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant. 22 She was going to have twins, and before they were born, they struggled against each other in her womb. She said, “Why should something like this happen to me?” So she went to ask the Lord for an answer.
23 The Lord said to her,
“Two nations are within you;
You will give birth to two rival peoples.
One will be stronger than the other;
The older will serve the younger.” - How much salt do you need to make a soup taste good?
- Are you enough to change your nation?
- Draw the flag of your nation.
- Would anybody like to visit your nation?
- Activity: Demonstrate how the nations of the world came to practice greetings.