The S-factor Bible
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On your marks:
This idea gives you a list of 52 keywords, all beginning with 'S', to take you through the whole Bible. These key words can be used to stimulate a storytelling session with a group or as the framework for a presentation or display of the big story of the Bible.
Get set:
Before you start, it would be good to remind yourself of the stories linked to each of the words. You could perhaps challenge an older group to find the stories in their Bibles. If the group can find pictures from magazines or the web for each word, this could be built up over time into a 'picture Bible' to share with others at church.
Go!
1. For the story of creation from Genesis 1 and 2
- Smile
- Spirit
- Special light
- Sea
- Sky
- Soil
- Sun
- Sharks
- Snails
- Sheep
- Snow leopards
- Sons of God
2. For the story of the Old Testament
- Snake
- Separation
- Sadness
- Sand
- Stones (= altars and Jacob's pillow)
- Siblings (= Joseph and the brothers)
- Slaves
- Staff
- Sinai
- Serpents
- Swords
- Sceptres (=Kings)
- Songs (= Psalms)
- Seers (= prophets)
- Stump (= hope for the 4 exiled Jews - Isaiah 11)
- Scrolls (= prophecies)
- Silence (=between the Testaments)
3. For the story of the New Testament
- Star
- Stable
- Shepherds
- Signs
- Satan
- Shore
- Synagogue
- Seeds
- Ship
- Sermon
- Sayings
- Secrets
- Saviour
- Servant
- Sacrifice
- Surprise (= resurrection)
- Salvation (= the name of Jesus)
- Sharing (= the new community in Acts)
- Scattering (= the spread of the good news)
- Signatures (= the letters)
- Shipwreck
- Seals (= revelation)
- Singing (= joy in heaven)