Born Again~

My husband Chris and I taught the Sunday school class this week.  We have been studying the story of Nicodemus from the bible.  We played the new song by Carrie Underwood because our lessons objective was to help the class understand that to live the gospel we must be "Born Again" and continue to follow Jesus Christ.  We are not the only Sunday School Teachers out here, we have about Seven teachers I believe, we alternate weeks, as members called to teach we take turns. It is our responsibility as teachers to get across the lesson objective and cover the material that we feel is inspired for members in our class to understand.  Lessons contain a wealth of information in each lesson.  So I set about studying the lesson material and praying what to teach.  It is a good way to learn and  the class is encouraged to study as well, so that we can each be "edified together"- Corinthians 14:26

It is amazing how things come to you as you pray for the class to be able to know and understand what Christ would have the class know. To know and understand what point to which "Jesus" would have us speak.  

My husband, Chris, came across an awesome song by Carrie Underwood, our son Christopher had told him that he had looked up the lyrics and that it was a very clear interpretation about truth of baptism which can apply all Christians We felt it appropriate to play the song in class, I felt that it would help convey the spirit of faith taken by all Christians to go to any minister and be baptized of the water. It takes so much faith for new members of Jesus Christs Church on the Earth to choose to take the hand of a Missionary Elder, called of proper authority come from God, and to go down into the waters of baptism, believing that as they do so with a true and honest, and humble heart that a change will begin in their lives. My daughter Jessica, teaching people in Mexico has been such a help to us and we pray people will listen to her message follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be Baptized new members of his true church on the earth.

Here is the Carrie Underwood Message... we only played the song, and had the class listen for the message that they understood of truth in it.

We also,in  our personal studying referenced the Hawaiian Pidgin Bible.  It is a King James translation of the bible that helps the people of Hawaii, speaking the " Hawaiian Pidgin English" language to come to a clearer understanding of the  Bible.  Because it is such a simple, straight forward language our family has had fun looking to it for both interpretations and "humor" in Jesus's words. The story of Nicodemus is very interesting in the Hawaiian Pidjen Bible. We referenced only a few lines in class.

Here is the story if you would like to see the humor. http://www.pidginbible.org/Concindex.html

As teachers we are encouraged to follow lesson material in the Manuel, but we also are told to follow the spirit in choosing what we say and what we feel the spirit dictates. In sunday school we decided to use only a a line of that bible to our lesson taught from the Manuel.

"You a teacher come from the jews and you still don't know this stuff...