The Big Questions:
What is goodness?
Goodness does not just mean being good, but doing good and pushing others to do good.
God promises believers goodness - does that mean nothing bad will ever happen?
No, but no matter how bad something may seem, God ultimately intends it for our good.
Challenge: Think of ways as a family that you can do good for people in our community this week, make a plan and follow through! Share your goodness with us this week on the Parents of FV Kids facebook page!
Parent At Home Activity:
A fun way to demonstrate the idea of goodness is by making two types of sugar cookies with your child. Make the dough using your favorite recipe or a store-bought mix. Stir a generous amount of salt into a small, separate portion of dough.
Bake the salty and sweet cookies, and put a sample of each on a plate. Ask your child if both types of cookies look good. Can he tell the difference just by looking at them? By tasting them?
Taste the cookies, explaining how the salty ones look good on the outside but don’t taste good because of what’s on the inside. In the same way, we may try to look good by doing all the right things, but if our hearts are not good, we won’t be pleasing to God. Since only God is truly good, He is the “ingredient” that creates true goodness in our hearts.
As you eat the good sugar cookies, ask your child if he can think of situations where he may act more like a salty cookie — appearing good on the outside, but not pleasing God with his heart. Remind your child that we can ask God to give us His goodness, so that we are pleasing to Him.
Memory Verse:
“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!”
Galatians 5:22-23