What Is the Main Idea?

Scripture: Acts 8:1-40

Learning Objectives:

  • Students will learn God opened the Church to Samaritans after the Jews.
  • Students will learn God does not want us to become Christians so we can get what we want in life.
  • Students will learn God wants the good news about Jesus to be told to everyone in the world.
  • Students will learn how to identify the main idea of a passage.

Guiding Question: How can students learn to find the main idea of a text?

Materials: NIrV Bibles

Procedure: Review the story of Philip and how the Ethiopian Eunuch came to be saved. Discuss how Philip shared his faith with the Eunuch and the importance of baptism in the conversion process. Explain that people called missionaries go around the world to help people and share God with them in hopes of converting them to Chrsitianity. Even if our job is not to go around the world, we can still be missionaries in our school and other places we go with people. We can share God through our words and actions. God desires that all people know about Him and become Christians.

Introduce the activity. Remind students that the Ethiopian Eunuch was trying to understand what he was reading. Introduce the concept of finding the main idea in a paragraph. Using passages from an NIrV Bible, have students identify the main idea in them but looking at key details within the passage.

Additional Questions: How can students learn the main idea of Jesus’ teachings?

Supplemental Activity: Have the students read parables within the gospels and determine the main idea of the parables based on key details within the parable.

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