Leader Guide
SuperVerse
- Bibles or the Superbook Bible App
- Eight sheets of paper
- Chalkboard and chalk, or whiteboard and marker.
Write the SuperVerse on the board for the children to see.
Write one word of the verse and the scripture reference—each on a separate sheet of paper. The words should be large enough for the class to read.
Scramble the sheets and place in a pile.
Our SuperVerse is found in the third book of the Old Testament, which is called Leviticus. Let’s read the verse, Leviticus 19:18b, aloud together.
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Does this mean you only have to love neighbors who live on your street?
No, Jesus loved and died for all people, so we should love them all, too!
The Bible clearly tells us that we must love God and others. Read 1 John 4:19–21:
We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
What does the word “brother” mean in this passage? Other people; our fellow human beings.
Choose eight children to stand side by side in the front of the room. Give one sheet of the mixed up SuperVerse to each child. Starting on the far left, from the class’s perspective, have the eight children create a “wave” by holding up and reading aloud their words—which will be out of order—and lowering their papers when done.
Did that sound right to you? No!
Ask the rest of the class to guess which reader should be first, second, third, etc. Rearrange the eight children in that order and have them read their phrases again, creating another “wave” with their papers. Ask the rest of the class if the verse is now correct. If not, have the class rearrange the readers again until they can say the words of the verse in the proper order. Finally, have the entire class follow the “wave” to say the verse together two or three times, going faster each time.