Worship-At-Home GUIDE

Dear Parents, Today we learn about Elijah’s experience at Mount Carmel. God showed that He was the one true God. The worshipers of Baal had no choice but to see that God was the all-powerful one. Talk to your children about the ways we can see in our world today that God is powerful. Talk about how when we pursue other “gods” and idols it only leaves us feeling unsatisfied because God is the one true God!

OPENING ACTIVITY Hold Contests Invite kids to participate in several contests. First, compete to see who can stand on one leg the longest. Next, compete to see who can jump the highest. Finally, compete to see who can be the most quiet. Make up additional competitions to lead kids in as time allows. Invite suggestions from them. Say: Did you have fun competing against each other? Today’s Bible story is about a kind of competition. This contest was between people who followed a pretend god named Baal and Elijah, a prophet and servant of the one true God. Who do you think won the contest? We’ll find out in our Bible story.

WORSHIP These songs are what we suggest for today’s lesson. You can use these links or access them from the TCC Kids youtube playlist. As always, do what works best for your family and use whatever songs you’d like to worship together! • “Make it Loud”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmveRjT--rE • “My God is So Big and So Strong”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDCTNhYqEKo • “He's the King”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLGwuS_JX0

BIBLE STORY

Bible Passage: 1 Kings 18-19 Main Point: God showed that He is the one true God. Big Picture Question: How many gods are there? There is one true God. Christ Connection: The people who worshiped the false god Baal worked hard to show they loved Baal, but Baal was silent. The one true God is not like false gods. We do not have to work hard to show God we love Him. Instead, God showed His love for us by sending His Son, Jesus, to be the Savior of the world. PRAYER TIME Spend some time as a family in prayer. Pray for your kids and pray out loud with your kids! Encourage them to pray and share with God what is on their hearts.

Say: God, You are the one true God! All other gods are false gods. You listen to us. You are alive. You answer our prayers. We don’t have to work really hard to earn Your love. You already love us and sent us Jesus to die for our sins so we can spend forever with You. Amen.

1 CRAFT/ACTIVITY Create an Imaginary Pet Work together to draw an imaginary pet on either a large piece of paper or a dry erase board. Select what animal you want to start with, and draw that animal on the paper or board. Then invite kids to imagine what to add to their pet. How many legs should the pet have? What color should he be? Give your imaginary pet a name. Say: This is a pretty great imaginary pet! Do you think he is real? Could he play fetch or eat pet food? Of course not! We just made him up. In today’s Bible story, some people worshiped a god that they made up. The people who worshiped the made-up god, Baal, worked hard to show they loved Baal, but Baal did not send fire to their altar. That’s because he is not real. But God showed that He is the one true God by sending fire to Elijah’s altar. The one true God is not like false gods. We do not have to work hard to show God we love Him. Instead, God showed His love for us by sending His Son, Jesus, to be the Savior of the world

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