Week 7Discovery Guide

John 20:1-18

Sir Neil’s Journal of Feats and BravenessCollies Are Great Explorers Too

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The customs officer had never seen an alpaca before and wouldn’t let us leave the airport. They thought Pam was a large dog. I told them she was my exploring colleague, but they thought I said exploring collie. You know, like the dog. It took some time to get things straightened out. Pam felt insulted.

Our destination was the Rainbow Rock of Middle Romania—a large stone that creates

a rare spectacle that happens only in the month of June. When the large stone, made of iridescent quartz, is hit by the sun just right, it sends out a shimmering rainbow of colors—a fantastic sight rarely seen on ac-count of its mountainous location.

But Pam wasn’t thinking about the Rain-bow Rock. “Herr-ruh?” she bellowed.

“No, Pam,” I answered. “You look nothing

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4. What’s This Say about God?5. What’s This Say about Us?

What’s

1. Remember Verse2. What’s That Word?

3. Peaks and Pitfalls

4. Hear It

5. Tell ItTT

7. What’s Happeningin the Passage?

8. What’s This Sayabout God?

9. Record Your Discovery!

6.Embrace

It

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __: A Roman form of punishment. To tie or nail a person to a wooden beam or cross to die. Jesus died this way as part of God’s plan to defeat sin. Read about it in John 19:17-30.

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __: When something dead is brought back to life. Jesus was alive again after three days!

__ __ __ __ __ __ __: To know some-thing is true to the point that it affects your life. To know and trust God with your life. To make Him your Savior, King, and Friend.

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John 20:1-18

Follow this map and the 5 What’s as you explore the passage.

Watch out for alpacas that look like collies. Follow God! Go Discover!

– So Much Drama– Scene Snap

Isaiah 9:6 (NLT)

John 3:16-17 (NIV)

Psalm 95:3-5 (NIV)

Philippians 2:6-7 (NIrV)

Psalm 145:8-9 (NLT)

Romans 15:13 (NLT)

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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever

believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send

his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the

world through him.

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4. What’s This Say about God?5. What’s This Say about Us?

What’s

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A. It was still dark Sunday morning and Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw the stone had been moved. She went running to Peter and John and said, “They took the Lord from the tomb!”

B. Peter and John raced to the tomb. John got there first, but when Peter arrived he went right into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there and the head wrapping folded and set apart.

C. John went in, saw the linen, and believed. (They still did not un-derstand from Scripture that Jesus would rise from the dead.)

D. The disciples went back to where they were staying, but Mary stayed at the tomb. As she wept she looked in the tomb and saw two angels in white seated where Jesus’s body had been. They asked her, “Why are you crying?”

E. “They have taken my Lord’s body!” Then she turned around and Jesus was standing there, but she did not recognize Him.

F. He asked her, “Why are you cry-ing? Who are you looking for?” She thought He was the gardener and said, “If you have taken the body, tell me where so I can bring Him back to the tomb.”

G. Jesus said to her, “Mary.” When He said her name she realized it was Jesus and cried out, “Teach-er!”

H. Jesus said, “Do not cling to me. I am not going to the Father yet. But go and tell my disciples that I will be going to my Father.”

Mary went to the disciples with the good news: “I have seen the Lord!”

Eureka! Bible Passage:Eureka! Bible Passage: John 20:1-18

Keep Exploring!

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like a collie. Your nose is much bigger.” Pam glared at me. Hmm, that part about the nose didn’t come out right. Pam felt insulted. Again.

Suddenly, I caught a familiar smell with my own giant sniffer. I’d smelled it before on my treks across the Speeding Savannah. There! A pack of racing red rhinos headed our way. They’re a small breed of rhinos built for speed with racing stripes and air intake horns. Of course, they were running directly at us.

Pam bit off two branches, handed one to me, and held the other one up in front of her. “You can’t expect those rhinos to mistake us for a couple of bushes,” I told her. It’s true. I look nothing like foliage. A chiseled mountain perhaps, but not shrubbery.

The rhinos stopped and squinted at Pam. They sniffed. Then they started licking her. They were so happy! Turns out racing red rhi-nos like collies. Pam felt insulted.

Sir Neil’s Journal of Feats and Braveness

Keep your exploring skills brighter than the Rainbow Rock of Middle Romania. See what you discover as you dive into God’s Word and explore God’s love at home.

Pam buried 6 words from the Remember Verse in the Bible picture. Can you find them?

Sir Neil used a word from the Eureka! Bible Passage in his journal. Can you find that too?

Pam’s

Record Your Discovery!

Draw something to help you remember what you’ve discovered in the passage.

Writing stuff helps you remember stuff. Write the Remember

Verse through the maze to the end.