Subject: Gospel of Luke	Level: church members
Topic: Luke 15 Three kind of people	Date: January 30, 2019
Major Strategy: Cooperative learning, Expert Jigsaw	Class Duration: 15 minutes

Materials:

1 Whole Jigsaw peace of paper

2 sets Jigsaw cut-out papers – for 8 people (4 items in one set)

Instructional Objectives:

By the end of the class, students will be able to

1. Distinguish the three kinds of lost people, according Luk.15.
2. Describe main characteristics of each kind of lost people.
3. Identify different kinds of people from Luk.15 in real life story (mini case)
4. Encourage and help each other in processing information

Introduction:

These are photo of our children. They are completely different. Even they do their bad things they did them by different ways.

In our church family we also have different kinds of people. Today we will be able to distinguish them.

Presentation:

Teacher Activity	Student Activity
1. Review of Gospel of Luke, Ch. 15	Students name 3 parables from Luk.15
2. Divide the whole class (8 person) into two group (4 + 4)	Join their respective groups quietly and slowly.
3. Give out the jigsaw cut-out papers stapled together by set to each group.	Distribute four cut-out papers in a set among themselves.
4. Instruct students to read silently the cutout piece given to everyone and define main characteristic of the lost person from your parable.	Read silently, try to determine the characteristics
5. Direct students to go to their respective expert groups.	Assemble in a group (where everybody has a common item at hand) at a designated area.
6. Go around the groups to encourage open sharing.	Discuss the common topic among members of expert groups, which includes sharing of other valuable insights.
7. Inform students to go back to their home group for further sharing of what they have gained from expert groups.	Share their original and gained ideas with their home group members.
8. Prompt the whole class to end their discussions after some time
9. Ask review questions pertaining to the topic to the whole class.	Listen to the questions give answers according to what they have learned.

Review Questions:

1. Open questions (teacher name the parable; student describe characteristics of the lost person)

2. Multiple choice questions (teacher describe the characteristics; student identify the type of the lost person)

3. Mini case: teacher describe modern life situations; students identify different kinds of people from Luk.15

Assignments:

1. Think about your life and try to identify yourself with one of learnt kind of lost people.

2. Create one mini case (80-100 words) from real modern life about any kind of lost people.

3. Compare the parable of the Lost Sheep by Luke with the same parable by Mathew (Math.18). Find the difference.

Reflections:

1. I am glad to try by myself how expert Jigsaw works. It is good way to learn the lesson quickly and actively with everyone participation.
2. The important part is the last one when teacher ask review questions pertaining to the topic to the whole class. I think so because in that time students can build up whole picture, fill the gaps if they didn’t catch up something during sharing. Unfortunately, I needed to cut my last part because limit of time.
3. I have learnt today, that I need keep time for every member personally, not for group. Other way, groups will finish not at the same time. It is small but important thing on which I didn’t pay attention.

Jigsaw material

Parables of the lost Sheep

So he told them this parable: ⁴ “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? 

The sheep that has strayed from the fold is the most helpless of all creatures. It must be sought for by the shepherd, for it cannot find its way back. So with the soul that has wandered away from God; he is as helpless as the lost sheep, and unless divine love had come to his rescue he could never find his way to God.

The lost sheep knows that it is lost. It has left the shepherd and the flock, and it cannot recover itself. It represents those who realize that they are separated from God and who are in a cloud of perplexity, in humiliation, and sorely tempted. 

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The Parable of the Lost Coin

The lost coin represents those who are lost in trespasses and sins, but who have no sense of their condition. They are estranged from God, but they know it not. Their souls are in peril, but they are unconscious and unconcerned.

In this parable Christ teaches that even those who are indifferent to the claims of God are the objects of His pitying love. They are to be sought for that they may be brought back to God.

The piece of silver was lost in the house. It was close at hand, yet it could be recovered only by diligent search. This parable has a lesson to families. In the household there is often great carelessness concerning the souls of its members. Among their number may be one who is estranged from God; but how little anxiety is felt lest in the family relationship there be lost one of God’s entrusted gifts.

The coin, though lying among dust and rubbish, is a piece of silver still. So every soul, however degraded by sin, is in God’s sight accounted precious. As the coin bears the image and superscription of the reigning power, so man at his creation bore the image and superscription of God; and though now marred and dim through the influence of sin, the traces of this inscription remain upon every soul. God desires to recover that soul and to retrace upon it His own image in righteousness and holiness.

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The Parable of the Prodigal son, part 1

In the parable of the prodigal son is presented the Lord’s dealing with those who have once known the Father’s love, but who have allowed the tempter to lead them captive at his will.

“A certain man had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country.”

This younger son had become weary of the restraint of his father’s house. He thought that his liberty was restricted. His father’s love and care for him were misinterpreted, and he determined to follow the dictates of his own inclination… He is bent on present enjoyment, and cares not for the future.

Although surrounded with the blessings of His love, there is nothing that the sinner, bent on self-indulgence and sinful pleasure, desires so much as separation from God. Like the ungrateful son, he claims the good things of God as his by right.

The love of God still yearns over the one who has chosen to separate from Him, and He sets in operation influences to bring him back to the Father’s house. The prodigal son in his wretchedness “came to himself… The son determines to confess his guilt. He will go to his father, saying, “I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.”

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The Parable of the Prodigal son, part 2

When the prodigal came home, the elder son was angry, and would not go in. He will not go in to welcome his lost brother. The favor shown the prodigal he regards as an insult to himself. His brother has jealousy and hardheartedness.

By the elder son were represented the unrepenting Jews of Christ’s day, and also the Pharisees in every age, who look with contempt upon those whom they regard as publicans and sinners. Because they themselves have not gone to great excesses in vice, they are filled with self-righteousness.

They claimed to be sons in God’s house, but they had the spirit of the hireling. They were working, not from love, but from hope of reward. In their eyes, God was an exacting taskmaster. Self-righteousness leads men to misrepresent God.

This kind of people is always stubborn, self-willed, complaining, and accusing. They may claim to be children of God, but they are acting out the spirit of Satan. Deny your relationship to younger brother, and you show that you are but a hireling in the household, not a child in the family of God.