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A Personal God
Could you be friends with someone who was..Good looking/ attractive, but doesn’t spare you a second glance?Clever, but not bothered about talking to youPowerful, but did nothing to help you?Sensitive, but doesn’t care if you are hurt?
God is perfect. All-powerful, all-knowing, all-good. He doesn’t need anything to make Him happy. And yet He chooses to be a Personal God to us, and to have a relationship with us, and lavish His love and care on us, a speck in creation. Slide2
A Personal God
To describe what is meant by a Personal GodTo contrast the personal and impersonal aspects of GodTo explain the importance of having a personal GodSlide3
Which of these descriptions are personal
, and which are impersonal?MotherlyFatherly
CompassionateForgiving
Generous
Communicating
Loving
Just and fair
All powerful
Pure spirit
Holy, all perfect
All knowing
Unimaginable
Everywhere present
Eternal
(ever living)
Unchanging
Write out the 2 column headings, and write out the words under the correct column.
What
is the difference betwee
n the personal and the impersonal aspects of God
?
Why would it be important to people to have a personal God?
**Which aspects of God are most important to you? Why?
Jealous of His people
Hating evilSlide4
2. Cares
for us4. wants to be our God3. not
necessarily friendly1. is all holy and perfect
Find 2 ways of describing...an
impersonal God
...and add up the numbers of your 2 answers...Slide5
How is God impersonal in the passage?
Choose 2 and explain.God is shown to be an impersonal when He says… because…2. How is God personal in this story? Choose 2 and explain.God is shown to be a personal God when He says…. because** Why is it important for us that God is a personal God? What different would it make if God did not have any “personal” qualities?
In the story of the Burning Bush, Moses meets a God who is BOTH personal and impersonal. Read the story and find out how.
.
Exodus
3:1-15Slide6
Write out the definition of Revelation.
What does God reveal about Himself to Moses in the Burning Bush? Explain what you think this means.**Do you think revelation is a reliable way of finding out what God is like? Why?Revelation =God himself tells us what He is like
Watch the clip.
What does Moses learn about God that he didn’t know before, during this conversation?
“I AM WHO AM”Slide7
Write a prayer to God, Include lines that refer to God as both
personal and impersonal. Slide8
It is
the Bible that reveals to us that God is a personal God who is in relationship with us, and who does things to help us. We could not have known this otherwise. Sikhs , Muslims and other religions do not believe in the Christian God – because they have their own different “holy books” with different stories, and therefore a different picture of what a personal God is like.