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Rickfcm Veteran user lower Michigan 382 Posts |
I am not going to get into a conversation on your feelings on this topic. I have to teach a Sunday school class on the subject, any ideas out there?
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Doug Follett Loyal user 202 Posts |
Maybe something like a blendo where many different languages all blend into one thing. For example, Barry Mitchell's King of King's Blendo Bag. Put in something representing different languages, maybe as simple as cardboard laminated cut-outs with different letters, symbols, something representing the languages. All of these are placed into the blendo bag, and then at the end, it turns into Jesus Christ.
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Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
Something torn and restored might work well as the languages and cultures were torn apart at the Tower of Babel and brought back together at Pentecost when the flames came down and the disciples spoke in the languages of every nation under heaven and each foreigner heard them speaking his own native language.
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Dan Bernier Inner circle Canada 2298 Posts |
Do you have to use magic?
What is it you are going to teach about tongues? This will help in being able to be more concise about what trick might work with what you are teaching.
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Rickfcm Veteran user lower Michigan 382 Posts |
This is just an intro to tongues to the elementary children. Don't want to frighten them but give a simple explanation. Going to start with a short video of several people saying hello in many different languages. Then not sure yet. Have 6 weeks to put together.
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JohnWells Inner circle The Southern Wild 1791 Posts |
Alan and Dan: yes. I think a trick is unnecessary, but if you do one, capturing the theological significance of babel reversed, torn/cut and restored, is ideal. Remember also that it was not just speaking a foreign language, but the local accent. They heard the apostles speaking the same language they heard in their motherr's kitchen; it was a heart language. I remember hearing a southern accent in the wilds of pennsylvania after two years away from home. I nearly cried. I did hug the man. It's more powerful than auto-translation, it's the essence of the covenant, strangers becoming family.
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Ed_Millis Inner circle Yuma, AZ 2292 Posts |
I'm thinking of the sign board that flips over for three different sayings (Mark Wilson's Complete Course??). Just thinking - have zero practical experience with something like this.
Maybe write three or four different praise words on one side, the foreign translation on the second side, and leave the third side blank. (Maybe use "Hallelujah" as the translation of "Praise God"?) Have kids come up and hold the signs, English out, so they see a blank back. Then you turn them over to show them blank, because it wasn't the people - they didn't have it in them. The helpers see the English word upside down. Then you hand the signs back and have the helpers repeat the word or phrase that was on their sign. Ask the rest of the kids if that's what the sign says; they'll say no because you've turned it to the foreign translation. Ed |
ClintonMagus Inner circle Southwestern Southeast 3997 Posts |
What church is this for? Knowing this will give us some idea of how in-depth it needs to be.
Is the lesson actually on "tongues" or "languages"?
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Rickfcm Veteran user lower Michigan 382 Posts |
What I ended up doing was saying hello to them in several different languages. They only got the last two. Then I talked about the Holy Spirit has a language of His own and because they were only between the ages of 5 and 9, went on about how not to be afraid when they hear it and when they get it. What helped was that at the children's camp two weeks before several were baptized in the Holy Spirit. So my main teaching point was to get them comfortable with the idea of tongues. This was part of a large teaching of all the gifts of the Spirit and I finally decided on this one gift not to use an illusion. Thanks for all the input.
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Crimlock New user 62 Posts |
I think it was a good way to teach
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