An overview for Sunday School teachers and Bible study leaders, of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Genesis 45:1-15 for Sunday, May 19, 2024, with the title, “Reconcile.” A video version of this overview is available on YouTube at:
INTRO: ??? Ask your group members to share about a joyous family reunion they had with a long-lost/absent family member or loved one???
(EX: — As children growing up, we prayed every night at the dinner table for “Uncle Rick in Vietnam” — and then one day, some years later — he came home! We were really excited — until he lined us up and told us in his best Marine voice that our room was a mess and we needed to get that place cleaned up!
— As an adult, what sticks out is the return of my sister from the mission field, where she had been involved in a tragic jetliner crash in China in which only about 8 people survived. She had been in the hospital in China for some time, recovering from broken bones and some 3rd degree burns. But some weeks later we met her at the airport in Oklahoma City, where they wheeled her off the plane, and she smiled and waved to us — and we could see it was the same Erin we’d always known and loved. Our kids (her nephews and nieces) were there, and it was a sweet reunion.
You/your group can share your own experiences, and then you could say something like: in this week’s lesson we’ll see how Joseph and his brothers had a “family reunion,” which was surprisingly sweet, especially given all his circumstances!
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