Big Idea
God loves the whole world so much that he gave us Jesus.
Memory Verse
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son.” — John 3:16
Object Lesson
Hold up an inflatable globe or world map and toss it gently around the circle. Each time it’s caught, say, “God loves this whole world — and you.”
Craft
World in God’s Hands: Trace each child’s hands on paper and glue a painted blue-and-green paper world resting inside them.
Three ways this craft can look:
Materials
Globe or world map, Blue and green paper, Glue, Crayons, Cardstock
Full passage
Scripture Reading
14As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
John 3:14–21 · World English Bible (public domain). Read this passage in the NIV
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