This blogpost features some learning resources to complement the Come Follow Me reading for June 5-11, 2023. Click here for an index and links to my CFM blogposts for other weeks.
PRINTABLE ACTIVITY PAGE: This sheet is meant to be printed double-sided. They are perfect for handing out with the sacrament programs each week, or as a discussion starter for your church classes or family lessons. The activities are generally geared for kids 8+, but the coloring pages are for all ages. My teens/husband always want their own when there's a word search (like this week)!
TEACHING IDEA: Shave Me Some of that Love: God's Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDl4zTstn6s
This video has a fun, hands-on way to teach about God's love! Maybe start off with having the kids count the number of times they see the word "LOVE" on a page in the reading, then read John 15:10 and talk about abiding in His love (quote in the quote section below). Read through the comments of the video for how to adapt the shaving cream activity to a classroom setting. I like the idea of giving each child a cup (make sure it's a good size for filling several of) and refer back to abiding in His love and talk about how much love God has as you fill each cup. Emphasize that He loves us all and in John 15:12 He asks us to love one another as He loves us.
QUOTE:
To abide in God’s love in this sense means to submit fully to His will. It means to accept His correction when needed, “for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.” It means to love and serve one another as Jesus has loved and served us. It means to learn “to abide the law of a celestial kingdom” so that we can “abide a celestial glory.” For Him to be able to make of us what we can become, our Heavenly Father pleads with us to yield “to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and [put] off the natural man and [become] a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and [become] as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.” D. Todd Christofferson, "Abide In My Love," October 2016
Being righteous is not dependent on each of us having every blessing in our lives at this time. We may not be married or blessed with children or have other desired blessings now. But the Lord has promised that the righteous who are faithful “may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness.” Unity is also a broad, comprehensive term but most certainly exemplifies the first and second great commandments to love God and love our fellowmen. It denotes a Zion people whose hearts and minds are “knit together in unity.”" Quentin L. Cook, "Hearts Knit Together in Righteousness and Unity," October 2020
VIDEO: God Loves His Children: Now You Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ExYfqXBx0
God's Love (Song) by Shawna Edwards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rZcN8dQpE
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