Be Patient

This past Sunday in Kids Church (1st-6th grades), we continued our "Beefesians" series. We are going through the Book of Ephesians, and learning that God wants us to Belong, Believe, Be Patient, Behave, and Be Strong.

This is a video series, brought to us by Kidmo. We try to use video lessons a few times throughout the year to keep things fresh and to give us time to plan creative elements for our live stuff.

This week, the kids learned that God wants us to Be Patient . We learned that because God made us all different, sometimes people will bug us.  We talked about how we can show love by being patient with those who annoy us.

In our small groups, we discussed the following questions:

• What really bugs you?  We talked about the things that other people do that make us nuts.
• When other people bug us, why should we be patient with them?  We discussed why loving someone makes a difference in how we treat them.  We talked about ways we can respond to annoyances with love.
• How will you act differently this week?  We talked about what we could do to react differently to people who bother us this week.  We committed to pausing to pray for people that bother us before we react to them.

Our verse for this week is Ephesians 4:2 - "Be humble and gentle.  Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love."