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The Story Behind of Jesus in Space
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Theology and Presentation Notes:
Do we have Jesus "visit" these
planets? Not really. Rather, the Tarsus Crew and the Aliens
re-tell the stories in images the aliens would understand. So
for example, on Ice Moon Alpha, the Snoballians present the
story with Stu's help. They portray all characters, including
Jesus, as Snoballians. On the planet Whammo, the Whambot
re-enact the story of the Last Supper, thus all the disciples
and Jesus look like robots. On the planet Vet, John the Baptist
is underwater and instead of wearing camel's hair and baptising
with water, the kids can have him wear clams and baptise with
octopus ink or bubbles, or sand. They have to figure it out.
Seeing these familiar stories through alien images is not only
fun, it brings focus and creates strong memories.
Baptism and Communion....that's
where denominations tend to split hairs, isn't it? Well
yes, but not really so much, and not really when teaching kids.
In our interactive Baptism story study notes, Captain Paul
narrates the point of view that the water is a SYMBOL, so "how
much water" you use is not that important. What's important, it
what it means. He purposely narrates the fact that different
churches do it different faithful ways. For Communion, we focus
on the symbols of bread and cup, and what Jesus said about them.
We deftly explain that the blood of Jesus is not being served at
Communion, and point out that some churches celebrate it weekly,
while others only occasionally.
Our goal is to explain in
kid-friendly language, and get kids to move on toward what it
means, and how it applies to your life. Plenty of room is left
for the teachers and individual churches to add their own
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