An overview for Sunday School teachers and Bible study leaders, of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Numbers 13:17-31, with the title “The Land, for Sunday, September 21, 2025. Includes a sample introduction to the lesson, text highlights and outline, illustrations you can use, discussion questions for your group, and spiritual life applications. A video version of this overview is available at:
INTRODUCTION:
Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician who lived in the 1800s. He was greatly concerned about the high rate of infection and resulting death in hospitals. He believed he knew the cause: the doctors themselves, who would often go from room to room — or even from autopsies in the morgue — without washing their hands. He speculated that if doctors would cleanse themselves it would cut down in the rate of infection. His colleagues did not believe him — they didn’t believe that THEY were the problem! He was widely ridiculed and was eventually put in a mental asylum, where he died at 47. But although Semmelweis was in the minority, he was absolutely right, as we now know, and today he is referred to as “the father of hand hygiene.” This is a good reminder to us, that the majority is not always right.
??? DISCUSSION QUESTION???
“Can you share a time from history or your own experience when the majority/popular opinion was wrong?”
In today’s lesson we’ll see that the majority is not always right — especially when they are acting in fear instead of faith in God’s word. This passage challenges us to be people of faith, who listen to God, and follow Him, even when He calls us to a difficult assignment.
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