01/28/24 BIBLE LESSON AND SPIRITUAL TRUTH

01/28/24 BIBLE LESSON AND SPIRITUAL TRUTH

I had taken my erasable markers to my house but forgot to take them back to The Net House. I started to use my marker board and realized I had no markers. Here is what I did. It really was quite an exercise.

This was a great exercise. It challenged my folks to know locations and significance of Biblical and present day importance. REMEMBER, they answered from a totally blank board. The responses came from the entire congregation and I especially included our very enthusiastic young people. We had a couple of glitches (including my own), but we laughed them off. 

I put my hand to the board and pretended to draw the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. I then asked my folks to tell me what I had "drawn." Of course, there was nothing on the board, but everyone knew what it was. I asked folks to raise there hands, in order to answer.
Answer... Mediterranean Sea.

For each of the following pretended drawings I got accurate answers (though some answers were accurate, they were either more inclusive or less inclusive than what I had intended).

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw the northern coast of a north east Africa.
Answer... Africa and Egypt in particular.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw a river.
Answer... The Nile.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw a political area on the eastern coast of the Med. Sea.
Answers... Palestine, Israel, Canaan. (I was intending Israel).

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw a body of water.
Answer... The Red Sea.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw a political area.
Answers... Turkey, Syria. (I was intending Syria).

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw Turkey and asked what country was to the far north (I actually pointed to the ceiling of the building).
Answer... Russia.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw a body of water.
Answers... Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf. (I intended Persian Gulf).

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw the Arabian Peninsula.
Answer... Saudi Arabia and Yemen 

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw two political areas, with similar names.
Answer... Iran and Iraq.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw the east coast of Africa and pointed to a particular location.
Answer... Somalia.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw two great rivers, emptying into the Persian Gulf.
Answers... Tigris and Euphrates

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw a political area with a famous mountain.
Answer... Mount Ararat.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw a river.
Answer... The Jordan River.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw a body of water.
Answer... The Sea of Galilee.

On the completely blank board I pretended to draw another body of water.
Answer... The Red Sea oooops (to which I readily agreed, but was corrected). It was the Dead Sea I had pretended to draw on this blank marker board. The Dead Sea was the answer.

I asked why the Dead Sea is called the Dead Sea.
Answer... the amount of minerals which accumulate in this body of water has no outlet and therefore inhibits normal water life.

I explained what the phrase, "living water." I pointed out that Living Water flows into us as believers, but if we have no outlet, then we do not produce life; death ensues. We must be sharing the Good News with others. This is our job, our responsibility. The need for Christ as Savior has always been true, but we are possibly coming to the end of the Church Age and the need is urgent.

We need to reach our world, where we are. We need to reach them NOW.