the jesus storybook bible curriculum kit

Because the lessons are presented chronologically, connections can be made between the stories and so enable children – and their teachers too – to build on what they have learnt in previous weeks. The lessons are easy to prepare, are clearly set out, and come with various helpful media aids. Accounting for holidays and other ‘interruptions’, the curriculum takes about a year-and-a-half to work through. However, those aged 2–10 seemed to all benefit from and enjoy it too. We have found the programme to be geared more towards children aged 4–7. ‘Every story in the Bible whispers his name’.

Every part of the JSBB, in other words, is concerned to bear witness to the One who is God’s principal revelation namely, Jesus. One of the real strengths and blessings of the programme is that it is concerned at every point to teach the great Story of the Bible rather than focus attention on presenting a series of seemingly unrelated ancient religious stories that remain largely unconnected to their principle purpose. Each week’s accompanying lesson is based on one of the stories and follows a similar structure – a time to recap previous stories, a relevant activity, the story time (which can be presented by either the teacher, or with the use of the accompanying DVD/CD), unpacking the story (technically called exegesis), reflection on Jesus’s location in the story, prayer, learning the memory verse, and completion of a hand-out. The Jesus Storybook Bible ( JSBB) includes 21 stories from the Old Testament, and 23 from the New Testament.

And at the centre of the Story, there is a baby. It takes the whole Bible to tell this Story.

There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories together tell one Big Story: The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them. Over the past two terms, our church’s Sunday School has been using The Jesus Storybook Bible Curriculum, the focus of which is to teach ‘the Story beneath all the stories in the bible’. Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sam Shammas, The Jesus Storybook Bible Curriculum Kit (Grand Rapids: Zondervan 2012 ) – a review

The jesus storybook bible curriculum kit