Rebound Top and bottom circles
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Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
Do you believe He died for your sins on the cross?
Well if you do, the moment you believed in Jesus Christ, you became part of God’s family.
Let’s put a circle in the upper corner next to the cross to show that all believers are in God’s family. See? You are in that circle, and that means you will live with God in heaven someday. We’ll call that top circle God’s family circle.
We’ll even put a little picture of heaven in that circle to remind us—someday that WILL be our home. We can never get out of the top circle—because we’re in God’s family forever!
But right now, we still live on earth. And God makes a perfectly happy, invisible place for of us to live in. We’ll put a circle below the other one and call it God’s friendship or fellowship circle.
Fellowship
When we’re in the fellowship circle, we can talk to God. It’s like being close to our best friend. We can remember that He takes care of us, and we can remember all the things we learn about God in our Bible lessons and trust Him to take care of us.
Fellowship
Now let’s look at the two circles a little more closely:
There’s only one way into God’s family circle. That way is the cross, where Jesus died for our sins. When we believe in Jesus Christ, we walk through the cross and into the doorway of God’s family (the top circle). The door shuts behind us! We can never get out.
Fellowship
God’s fellowship circle is different. Once we’re in, that doorway stays open and we can come back out. When we choose to disobey God, when we sin, we fall out the door of that circle. We leave the peaceful, safe company of God. We cannot talk to Him or even remember all we know about Him. We feel scared and alone and confused, maybe sad and awful.
Sin
Fellowship
Don’t worry, though. God wants us to come back quickly. Jesus Christ already paid for our sins on the cross, so God says we can come right back in if we just confess our sins. That means we tell Him what we did that was wrong. Then right away, we go back into the fellowship circle.
Sin
Fellowship
Look at 1 John 1:9: See? If we do our part, God does His. If we name our sin to God, He forgives it and makes our souls clean.
Here’s a fun and easy way to think of it:
As soon as we tell Him what we did wrong, we bounce right back into that bottom circle. It’s like a ball that gets thrown against the wall then bounces right back. It rebounds back where we want it to be..
So if you fall out of the bottom circle, tell God what you did. You’ll rebound back into the circle where you can enjoy your friendship with God.
Sin
Fellowship
Let’s try a quick example:
Suppose your parents say, “It’s bedtime! Turn off the TV and video games.” And you say, “NO. I don’t want to.”
Well, you just chose to say no to God and fell out of fellowship.
Outside that circle, you would feel unhappy, maybe frustrated, and you would want to get right back in. So silently you can say these words:Dear Heavenly Father,I sinned.I disobeyed my parents.
Sin
Fellowship
great job!
restart
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Transcript
Rebound Top and bottom circles
start
Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
Do you believe He died for your sins on the cross?
Well if you do, the moment you believed in Jesus Christ, you became part of God’s family. Let’s put a circle in the upper corner next to the cross to show that all believers are in God’s family. See? You are in that circle, and that means you will live with God in heaven someday. We’ll call that top circle God’s family circle.
We’ll even put a little picture of heaven in that circle to remind us—someday that WILL be our home. We can never get out of the top circle—because we’re in God’s family forever!
But right now, we still live on earth. And God makes a perfectly happy, invisible place for of us to live in. We’ll put a circle below the other one and call it God’s friendship or fellowship circle.
Fellowship
When we’re in the fellowship circle, we can talk to God. It’s like being close to our best friend. We can remember that He takes care of us, and we can remember all the things we learn about God in our Bible lessons and trust Him to take care of us.
Fellowship
Now let’s look at the two circles a little more closely: There’s only one way into God’s family circle. That way is the cross, where Jesus died for our sins. When we believe in Jesus Christ, we walk through the cross and into the doorway of God’s family (the top circle). The door shuts behind us! We can never get out.
Fellowship
God’s fellowship circle is different. Once we’re in, that doorway stays open and we can come back out. When we choose to disobey God, when we sin, we fall out the door of that circle. We leave the peaceful, safe company of God. We cannot talk to Him or even remember all we know about Him. We feel scared and alone and confused, maybe sad and awful.
Sin
Fellowship
Don’t worry, though. God wants us to come back quickly. Jesus Christ already paid for our sins on the cross, so God says we can come right back in if we just confess our sins. That means we tell Him what we did that was wrong. Then right away, we go back into the fellowship circle.
Sin
Fellowship
Look at 1 John 1:9: See? If we do our part, God does His. If we name our sin to God, He forgives it and makes our souls clean.
Here’s a fun and easy way to think of it:
As soon as we tell Him what we did wrong, we bounce right back into that bottom circle. It’s like a ball that gets thrown against the wall then bounces right back. It rebounds back where we want it to be..
So if you fall out of the bottom circle, tell God what you did. You’ll rebound back into the circle where you can enjoy your friendship with God.
Sin
Fellowship
Let’s try a quick example: Suppose your parents say, “It’s bedtime! Turn off the TV and video games.” And you say, “NO. I don’t want to.”
Well, you just chose to say no to God and fell out of fellowship. Outside that circle, you would feel unhappy, maybe frustrated, and you would want to get right back in. So silently you can say these words:Dear Heavenly Father,I sinned.I disobeyed my parents.
Sin
Fellowship
great job!
restart