Starter:
What did Jesus look like? Was he tall or short? Was he slender or hefty? Was his hair curly or straight? Did you know we have no description of Jesus’ appearance in the Bible? There’s a reason for that. If Jesus had been described, we could seek to draw pictures of him and worship him through that physical image of him. God has never wanted to be worshiped in that way. The children of Israel sought to worship God through the golden calf and God punished them for it. We must not worship God or Jesus through images.
Weekly Memory Verse:
You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Exodus 20:4
Discussion Questions:
Beginner: What is the second commandment?
Intermediate: Do we know what Jesus looked like? Do we worship Jesus by painting pictures of him and bowing down to those pictures of him?
Advanced: Why do we not have descriptions of Jesus (or descriptions of what God looks like) in the Bible? What is described for us about Jesus? What is the point of those descriptions? What does that tell us about how God wants us to worship him?
Recommended Activity:
Song: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.
See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.