Leader Guide

SuperVerse

Let’s read the SuperVerse together from the board: There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 

The SuperVerse is part of a letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to the Gentile believers in a region called Galatia. That’s why the name of this book of the Bible is Galatians. It was wonderful news to the Galatian people that they were the same in God’s eyes as the Jewish believers because they belonged to Christ. The same promises that God gave Abraham and his heirs now belonged to them too! (Galatians 3:29).    

The verse names six kinds of people. What are they? Jew and Gentile; slave and free; male and female. 

There are no exceptions, no small print.  All believers in Christ are alike, no matter what race, nationality, rank, status, or gender. All are saved in the same way through Jesus and share the same privileges as God’s children.  

Divide the children into six separate groups. The size of the groups does not matter. 

Assign one word to each group: Jew, Gentile, slave, free, male, female. Have each group face the board and stand several feet away from the other groups. Slowly read the verse aloud by yourself, and have each group say the word assigned to them at the proper time. Then read, “For you are all…” and have the groups come together in one big group and say, “One in Christ Jesus.” Have the groups separate again and repeat the activity.           

What do you think the activity represented? The different groups of people were separate until Christ brought them all together and made them one.  

Conclusion: God shows no favoritism. He sent Jesus to offer salvation to all people!