Thursday, February 17, 2011

Apostasy and Restoration Sharing time

Sharing Time- Jesus Christ Restored the Gospel through Joseph Smith
April 2013 week 1
 

 
 

When Jesus Christ was on the earth, He established His church. I am going to need your help to build the church with these blocks.  (I used clear Container Store boxes with removable lids) We need to find out what Jesus Christ’s church looked like and what instructions He gave to make it God’s church. So let’s add to the building, so far we only have two doors which we will find out later what’s inside! Rach (sorry I don't have your full name!) created these fabulous label boxes!!! Thanks so much! Here is her document: http://www.flcrosbys.blogspot.com/2013/04/apostasy-and-restoration-sharing-time.html




 

There are different building blocks around the room that we need to find. Right now we are finding the black letters side of the boxes. Later we will get to the red letters and inside the boxes too.(if you choose to incorporate a singing time with objects in the boxes)
 
  • We are looking for the building block that has "PROPHETS" in black letters and a picture of a prophet of long ago. Prophets were sent on the earth long ago to help warn people that Jesus Christ would be coming to earth and this building block has King Benjamin on a tower teaching people to watch for the Savior to come. matching picture on block- http://store.lds.org/images/estore/products/eng/811_62298000_p_348.jpg


  • When Jesus came to the earth, he appointed twelve people to be APOSTLES to be his special helpers. To help teach about His Jesus Christ and his purpose, to tell people that the church of God was on the earth and help do good for people. Can someone find a building block that has Jesus Christ with his hands on an apostle’s head ordaining him to be a special helper. The word "Apostles "(Look for an A at the beginning) in black is also on the building block. Let’s put the Apostle block on to remember that there were apostles long ago. matching picture on block- Primary packet picture 2-66 or https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/manual/36617/36617_all_001_03-ordaining.jpg

  • When Jesus came to this earth he brought the power of the PRIESTHOOD to help heal people of sickness, sin or doing things wrong, and other challenges. Jesus was able to make people that couldn’t see, see again and those that couldn’t walk, get up and walk. He also gave this power to his Apostles (point to previous block). Can someone find the building block where Jesus is healing or making someone feel better and has the word "Priesthood" in Black letters (look for the P at the beginning). Let’s add that to the church of God. matching picture on block- GAK 213 or http://www.lds.org/images/Manuals/tchg-pix.nfo:o:150.jpg


  • Jesus Christ brought special saving ORDINANCES or things that we need to do in order to make it back to heaven to Heavenly Father. One of these ordinances is baptism. Can someone find the building block that shows that even Jesus Christ was baptized to show that everyone needed to do this and be saved. The black letters say "Ordinances".(look for the O at the beginning) matching picture on block- http://www.mormonwiki.com/wiki/images/3/30/John-Baptist-Baptism-Jesus-Mormon.jpg

  • The people of old were given REVELATION by the prophets. Things that were going to happen to and to be ready for them. Can someone find the block with Noah warning the people that there was going to be a flood and to repent and be saved. matching picture- GAK 102 or  http://www.lds.org/images/Manuals/tchg-pix.nfo:o:2c0.jpg

  • A long time ago people living before and after Jesus came to earth wrote down their stories and Christ’s teachings. We know that as the Bible. America wrote their stories and miracles down too on plates of brass so that after they died others could remember them.  Mormon later abridged them onto gold plates. These are SCRIPTURE. (Have a child put the Scripture block at the top) matching picture on block-GAK 325 or https://www.lds.org/images/Manuals/tchg-pix.nfo:o:1b6.jpg

       As the prophets wrote, more and more people started not listening to the words. They were becoming very wicked and started killing Prophets, Apostles and even Jesus Christ.  And eventually, God got angry and said “No More!!” (Kick over all of the blocks and let them fall on the floor, this was quite effective when I did it) and Heavenly Father took Revelation from the earth, Priesthood power, didn’t sent any more Prophets, Apostles, hid the plates. This time is called the APOSTASY. And for a long time, there was no church like we have on the earth today.        
      People tried to build the church back up again, they used their own ideas about Scripture, Prophets, Revelation, but without the correct parts, it just didn’t look the same! (Try and incorrectly build the church as talking.)                                     

      Until a special boy was sent to help bring back or restore the true church that was gone.(Open the doors of the church to show Joseph Smith first vision picture from Primary picture packet 1-4 or http://store.lds.org/images/estore/products/eng/192_62470000_p_348.jpg.)

      Joseph Smith when he was 14 years old was trying to figure out which one of these built up churches was right. He saw Heavenly Father and Jesus and they told him that he was going to bring back or restore the true church. Now let’s build the church back up like Jesus Christ did through Joseph Smith. (If time, let the kids find them boxes, if not just have them build the church. The boxes are now facing the opposite side with red letters and corresponding pictures in the same order that the "ancient" blocks were stacked.)     
  
 
 

I am grateful for this church and that is has been restored on the earth today In the name of Jesus Christ amen.

*Singing Time idea- The boxes of the restored church is established. Have the children look inside the boxes for the item that represents that restored part and sing a song that goes with it.


20 comments:

  1. Hello again!

    Thank you so much for all of your fabulous object lessons and ideas to help teach the doctrine! I just wanted to leave a link to some files I created to go along with your lesson plans. There is a Word document of the lesson and sixteen 4x6 in images to be used on the boxes. Hopefully, they will someone other than myself!

    https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4Ucf7JqAzKjdm9FUC1CaGJubkE&usp=sharing

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  2. Thanks soo much! I love it when people create printables on the computer that I could never produce!!!!! Awesome job and the link is added to the lesson:)

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  3. The link listed comes up as an error for me, does it for anyone else?

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    1. I will try to talk with google. It was working perfectly when I first "shared" it through Google Drive. Now, unless I am signed in, I can't even see it.

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    2. Apparently this problem with Google Docs and sharing has been going on for quite some time, and they still haven't resolved it. So, I went ahead and just created an entry on my personal blog with all of the images. You will have to save each individual image, but the same would have been required with the Google Drive. Six one way, half a dozen the other. Anyway, here is the link. http://www.flcrosbys.blogspot.com/2013/04/apostasy-and-restoration-sharing-time.html

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  4. The link is not working for me either.....

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    1. I am sorry for the inconvenience. The Google Drive has been suffering from this issue for quite some time apparently. So, I have made a post on my family's blog with the images. The link address is above.

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  5. Or you could send the document to sugardoodle, if it is still having problems. Sorry I am not helpful and guess its not helping telling everyone how fabulous they are either:)

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  6. Thank you so much for this! It is perfect for our Week 1 in July Sharing time! I appreciate it so much!

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  7. Do you have a printable for the doors? or a link?

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  8. Open the doors of the church to show Joseph Smith first vision picture from Primary picture packet 1-4 or http://store.lds.org/images/estore/products/eng/192_62470000_p_348.jpg.)
    I do not have a printable for the door, just drew a rectangle. There was someone(Rachel) that created printables a while back http://www.flcrosbys.blogspot.com/2013/04/apostasy-and-restoration-sharing-time.html

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  9. Thanks to you & Rachel for sharing your ideas - it will sure help me this Sunday in sharing time!

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  10. Hi, Darcee! I loved the fact you used pictures! I've shared your ideas in Portuguese in my Brazillian blog. You can see it here: http://primariasudonline.blogspot.com.br/2014/07/tempo-de-compartilhar-e-tempo-de-cantar.html I'm sure it will help lots of Brazillian sisters as it did to me. Hugs from Brazil!

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  11. woot woot. This was awesome. I have large mega blocks that we are building with. Then I am saving this for my own personal family home evening lesson collection. Thank you!

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  12. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for everyone. I appreciate all your hard work! :)

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  13. Perfect lesson for this month's sharing time lesson on Restoration! Thanks so much for posting.

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  14. Thank you so much for sharing, especially to Rach for sharing her file!!!

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  15. Thank you so much for this! It's great for Sharing Time this month.

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