1. Welcome to 12:13! Need to talk with your friend? Before or after class is OK, but not during. Need to use the bathroom? Ask one of the parent volunteers. Need to borrow a pen? Loan the parent volunteers a shoe and they will loan you a pen! Did you bring something for soldiers? Put notes in offering; items beside wall. Today’s “Starting Point” Set-up Crew 6th Grade Boys

2. SOLDIERS’ ANGELS DAY! Seize The Opportunity To Serve Your World!

3. CARE PACKAGES: At the end of class we will be assembling care packages for our three soldiers 6th Grade: Burton Martin 7th Grade: Maria Prater 8th Grade: Jeffrey Crouch

5. The Greatest Story Ever Told How To Read And Understand OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVES (I Samuel, Part 2)

6. Quick Review of Last Week ___ types of biblical literature _______________: The science and art of biblical interpretation. General Special _________: Process of using hermeneutics to reach a correct understanding of a text.

7. What Does It Mean To Me? Letter to the Naphtunkians “I let the cat out of the bag and told my friend about Ben’s birthday party.” Tunky 1: Cats as messengers Tunky 2: Liberating cat as a symbol of overcoming fear Tunky 3: Cat as birthday gift for Ben What did it mean to you?

8. Interpretation’s Golden Rule Skillfully use the rules of hermeneutics to understand what the text meant to the original author.

9. Mad Gab Mania! Sample: Ask Rude Arrive Her Ape Arrows Uncle As His Any Lack Tricked Ball Hank Hit Ape Any Fur Youth Halts

10. King Saul: A Great Start Handsome Humble Heroic Filled with the Spirit “The Spirit of God rushed upon him…” (10:10, 11:6)

11. A Proud Heart Burns the sacrifice Builds himself a monument Bends God’s Word to suit his needs “To obey is better than sacrifice” (15:22)  Steps For My Path: God, in what ways am I disobeying you? Begs Samuel to honor him with the people

12. Rejected By God Lost kingdom “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day…” (15:28) Lost Spirit “Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.” (16:14)

13. A King Ruled By Pride Stung by a song “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David has slain his ten thousands.” (18:7) Murder he wrote Pin him to the wall Kill him in bed Slaughter the priests Hide and seek “And Saul sought him every day…” (23:14)

14. The Bitter End Surrounded by Philistines “His heart trembled greatly…” (28:5) Abandoned by God “God has turned away from me and answers me no more…” (28:15) The last battle “Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor- bearer, and all his men, on the same day together” (31:6)

15. A Tragic Lesson “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18)

16. podium Table for water/OJ Table for coffee table Tall,black table Tall chair (from breakroom if necessary) 12 chairs Starting Point 4/20/08 and forward 12 chairs