Christian character class
Teachers
Lesson Summary
The class opened with a brief community announcement before the teacher revisited the theme of Christian character, focusing on commitment. Using Romans 12:1‑2 as a foundation, the group discussed how presenting oneself as a living sacrifice is the logical, reasonable response to God’s grace. The teacher then introduced Jeremiah 31:31‑33, explaining the New Covenant God promised the Israelites during the Babylonian exile and illustrating that God’s commitment to His people precedes any human devotion. After establishing God’s steadfast commitment, the session turned to New Testament assurances of that love, citing John 3:16, Romans 5, and 1 John 4:9‑10, 19. The class highlighted how God’s prior love should motivate believers to love Him first, eliminating fear and worry. The practical application emerged through a discussion of Joshua 24, where the Israelites were given only two choices—serve the Lord or follow other gods—paralleling Jesus’ teaching that no one can serve two masters. The group concluded with prayer requests for personal hardships, victims of a church shooting, and for the ongoing health challenges of a congregant, reaffirming their commitment to trust wholly in God above all other allegiances.
Key Scriptures
Look, the days are coming, this is the Lord's declaration, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant, which they broke, even though I was their master, the Lord's declaration. Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, the Lord's declaration: I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people. No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brothers, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, the Lord's declaration. For I will forgive their iniquity and never again will I remember their sin.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.