Wide Open, Week 8: VBS Sunday

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Written By Jon Ellegood
Wide Open, Week 8: VBS Sunay
Tracy Vermillion and Casey Streepy
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Discussion Questions

  1. The message described faith in children as either an alarm clock or a sunrise — one sudden, one gradual, both equally real. Looking back at your own faith journey, which of those images fits better, and what or who played the biggest role in it?

  2. The speaker said our role as adults isn't to manufacture faith in children but to cultivate environments where they can explore, wonder, and grow. Who did that for you when you were young — and are you doing that for any child in your life right now?

  3. A Starbucks conversation about VBS kept going long after the volunteer left, and a little girl went home convinced her church thanked God daily for Cheez-Its. What's a story from your own faith community that stuck with you longer than you expected?

  4. The message emphasized that the strength of a child's faith isn't found in memorizing verses but in knowing who God is and what God is like. How would you describe who God is to a child in your life — in plain, simple language, without the church vocabulary?

  5. The VBS kids raised $4,300 for Mission Guatemala — enough to keep seven kids in high school for a year or provide medical care for 215 people. When have you seen generosity in a child that genuinely moved or challenged you as an adult?

  6. The closing prayer wasn't that kids would remember the songs and crafts, but that they would leave knowing they are loved by God, surrounded by people who care, and invited into God's big story. Of those three things — loved, surrounded, invited — which one do you most need to be reminded of yourself right now?

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