VBS 2008 Overview: LifeWay's VBS - Outrigger Island

Use this Parenting Seminar Outline to prepare for your parenting workshop!

Wave 1

Truth: God Is Real
Background Passage: Exodus 3:1-22; 13:17 - 14:31
Lesson Passages: Exodus 3:1-14; 13:17-22; 14:10-31
Lesson Truth: We can know God is the only true God because He acts to reveal His existence as well as to reveal His nature, His character, and His power.
Lesson Aim: To lead adults to identify evidence that helps them believe there is only one true God and to discover what this truth demands of them
Memory Verse: "I am the first and I am the last. There is no God but Me" (Isa. 44:6b).

Wave 2

Truth: Jesus Is God's Son
Background Passage: Luke 2:1-20,25-35,41-52
Lesson Passages: Luke 2:1-20,25-35,41-52
Lesson Truth: We can know Jesus is God's Son and God sent Him asis promise] Hhi the Messiah and our Savior.
Lesson Aim: To lead adults to affirm Jesus is God's Son and to decide how they can celebrate His identity
Memory Verse: "Simeon took Him up in his arms, praised God, and said: ‘For my eyes have seen Your salvation. You have prepared it in the presence of all peoples.' " (Luke 2:28,30-31).

Wave 3

Truth: Jesus Is the Only Way
Background Passage: Mark 15:21 - 16:7; John 14:6
Lesson Passages: Mark 15:21 - 16:7; John 14:6
Lesson Truth: We can know Jesus suffered, died, and was resurrected as part of God's plan to provide us forgiveness for our sins.
Lesson Aim: To lead adults to declare Jesus is the only Way to salvation and to confess Him as Savior or, if Christians, to identify people to whom they will talk about confessing Him as Savior too
Memory Verse: "Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me' " (John 14:6).

Wave 4

Truth: The Bible Is God's Word
Background Passage: Jeremiah 36:1-32; 2 Timothy 3:16
Lesson Passages: Jeremiah 36:1-32; 2 Timothy 3:16 (33 vv.)
Lesson Truth: We can know only the Bible is the written Word of God because He inspired those who wrote it and He has preserved it for us.
Lesson Aim: To lead adults to confirm only the Bible is God's written Word and to describe how they will respond to its truth
Memory Verse: "All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness" (2 Tim. 3:16).

Wave 5

Truth: Our Actions Show What We Believe
Background Passage: Luke 10:25-37
Lesson Passages: Luke 10:25-37 (13 vv.)
Lesson Truth: Regardless of whether our actions are positive or negative, we show what we believe by what we do.
Lesson Aim: To lead adults to agree their actions show what they believe and to commit to act in ways that demonstrate their Christian beliefs
Memory Verse: "He answered, ‘ Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself' " (Luke 10:27).