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True or False?
Read the following statements and ask the kids to say if they believe the fact is true or if it is false.
The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich (up to 9 ft tall).
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
A cheetah can reach a top speed approaching 70 mph.
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
All five statements are true. It doesn’t really matter if we believe these statements for them to be true. The Bible is God’s Word whether people believe it or not. We want to believe and obey God’s Word as the absolute truth it is!
God-Breathed
Ask: What is the best selling book of all time? (The Bible)
Share some Bible facts.
The word Bible comes from the Greek word Biblia, which literally means "books."
The Bible actually contains 66 books in two parts:
The Old Testament has 39 books and The New Testament has 27.
God directed over 40 different men from many different occupations (kings, fishermen, doctor, poets, scholar, etc) to write the Bible.
It was written over a 1500 year span (from 1400 B.C to A.D. 100).
The Bible contains about 773,692 words! It would take you approximately 70 hours to read the whole Bible out loud.
Read 2 Timothy 3:16 (All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.)
Even though different men wrote down the words of the Bible, this verse says that it is “God-breathed”–that’s what inspiration means. The Bible is 100% God’s words to man so we can know God and what He wants for us.
Bible Book Superlatives
Let the kids find all the Bibles in the house and bring them to the table.
Show the kids how to look in the front of the Bible to find the index, which tells the page number of the beginning of each book. Show them how each book is divided into chapters and then verses.
Let them look up (let the older kids help the younger ones):
The longest chapter (Psalm 119)
The shortest chapter (Psalm 117)
The shortest verse (John 11:35)
The longest verse (Esther 8:9)
The verse containing all the letters of the alphabet except “J” (Ezra 7:21)
The verse that has the longest word in the Bible– “Mahershalalhashbaz” (Isaiah 18:1)
One of the best verses in the Bible (John 3:16)
This might be a good time to start learning the books of the Bible. It’s probably easier to start with the New Testament first.
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