God’s Love: Lesson 1

Dear Parents,

This week begins our series God’s Love. The first lesson was entitled “God is Love.” In this lesson, we focused on helping students understand that God’s unfailing love is an essential aspect of His character, and how this understanding changes how they relate to God.

We looked at the following Scripture passages:

• Psalm 86:5
• 1 John 4:7-8
• Psalm 33:5
• Psalm 143:8

These verses remind us that God is not only loving, He IS love. Love is essential to His nature and our love is based on this.

Next Steps . . .

During the next week as you have time to talk with your child, consider asking the following questions:

·      One of the verses you talked about says that God is love. How do you think that is different from Him being loving?

·      When you think about God’s love being abounding (vast and great) and unfailing, how does that make you feel? Is it hard to trust and believe that this is even possible? (This could be an excellent opportunity for you to share a time you struggled to believe God’s love would either fail or not be enough for that situation. How did you deal with it? How did you see God’s faithfulness in this?)

·      As you’ve thought about God saying we are to love one another, have you thought of any practical ways to do this?

Thank you for all you do. I am thankful for the role you play in your child’s spiritual development. If you have any questions about anything, please don’t hesitate to call me.