Year 3/4: What do Christians mean when they say in the Lord's Prayer "Your Kingdom come" and how do Christians work to bring God's Kingdom on Earth? Autumn term

What do Christians mean when they say in the Lord’s Prayer ‘Your Kingdom come’ and how do Christians work to bring God’s Kingdom on Earth?

Our big question in Cheetahs lasted us a whole term to enquire in to.

We began by thinking about people who are important to us, who we would speak to if we were lonely, sad, happy, excited, angry or nervous etc, we also thought about why we would speak to them.

Christians believe that God is like a good, loving, caring, kind parent and that Jesus is like a good, loving, caring, kind friend.

We watched the following video about prayer and how the letters P.R.A.Y can help us to pray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ZrdlXOk_QdQ

The Lord's prayer is a special prayer that Jesus taught His disciples to help them pray.  In groups we looked at different sections of the prayer and talked about what it shows and means.  We also talked about what we think the most important part of the prayer is.

There are different types of prayer in the Lord's Prayer and these are:

• Thanksgiving (thanks)
• Adoration
• Asking (asking God to help us or someone else)
• Confession (asking for forgiveness)

We thought about ourselves and the things that we are grateful for, find wonderful or amazing, someone that needs help and something that we feel bad about/wished we had done better.  We then used these to help us write 4 different prayers.

Using an information booklet, we found out lots of different things about prayer somethings we found out are what artefacts are used during prayer and where people pray.  We designed our own places of worship and considered the scriptures:

Matthew 6 v6,  “When you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen” and Luke 5 v16,  “Would go away to lonely places, where He prayed”.

Other religions pray, we used the internet to find out which ones do and who they pray to.  We made notes in our jotters about what we found out.

Christians bring God's kingdom to earth, we discussed how we thought they did this and why they did it.  Somebody said that Christians want to bring the love God gives us and share it with others.

The Good Samaritan story shows God's kingdom on earth, the children worked in small groups to show how this story is relevant now.  The children thought of and acted out some good scenarios.

To finish our enquiry we looked at what we had learnt and found out about our big question.  We considered the scripture from Matthew 7 v1-2 and discussed what judging others mean and whether it is a good think to do or not.

"Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others.”