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LESSON NOTE ON JSS3 CHRISTAIN RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE FOR SECOND TERM

Lesson Note on Christian Religious Studies (CRS) JSS3 Second Term

SCHEME OF WORK

Week One: The Spread of the Gospel outside Palestine

Week Two: The Christian Missionary Journey

Week Three: The journey from Antioch to Derbe

Week Four: Controversy in the early church

Week Five: Controversy in the Corinth Church

Week Six: The Jerusalem Council

Week Seven: Conflict in the society

Week Eight: Further spread of the church

Week Nine: Paul’s imprisonment at Philippi

Week Ten: Revision

Week Eleven: Examination

 

Lesson Note on Christian Religious Studies (CRS) JSS3 Second term 

Below are the 2022 complete JSS3 Second Term Christian Religious StudiesLesson Note 

 

Week One: The Spread of the Gospel outside Palestine

INTRODUCTION:

Before Jesus left disciples, his commissioned them and instructed them to spread the

gospel. He specifically told them to “Go and make disciples of all nation, baptizing them in

the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to observe

all things that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20). Since then, the disciples have

been spreading the word of God in and outside Jerusalem to the even the deepest part of

the world. To learn more, click here.

 

Week Two: The Christian Missionary Journey

INTRODUCTION:

By the direction of the Holy Spirit, Paul and Barnabas were sent to preach to the Gentiles at

Paphos, the capital of Cyprus. And while at Paphos, they met a Jewish sorcerer

[magician] called Bar-jesus also known as Elymas. The sorcerer attached himself to the

governor, a very intelligent man calld Sergius Paulus. Meanwhile, Sergius Paulus had invited

Paul and Barnabas to come and preach to him. And while preached to the governor, the

magician tried to discourage the governor from listening to the sermon. To learn more, click here.

 

Week Three: The journey from Antioch to Derbe

INTRODUCTION:

For his first missionary journey, Paul visited Derbe, a town in Turkey. There, he preached and

got many disciples one of whom was Gaius who later accompanied Paul to his missionary

journey to Greece. Do note that Paul’s journey to Derbe happened after he was stoned in

Iconium. To learn more, click here.

 

Week Four: Controversy in the early church

INTRODUCTION:

Every human community faces controversies ever so often. It is just an inevitable

phenomenon; conflict. And so it proved to be in the early church when the main source of

controversy was the discrimination of Jewish Christians against the Gentiles.

The Jews thought that those who were not circumcised were not permitted to be Christians.

As the Bible recorded, some of the Jewish Christians who held this opinion came from Judea

to Antioch preaching to the people that unless they were circumcised according to the

custom taught by Moses, they could not be saved. To learn more, click here.

 

Week Five: Controversy in the Corinth Church

INTRODUCTION:

Paul rebukes the Corinthians because there are divisions and quarrels in the church. This is

the result of a religious snobbery associated by cliques that produced pride and conflict.

Religious snobs want to be a part of a small group who think of themselves as the spiritual

elite. They are proud and smug because of their associations, especially with their leader,

and they look down upon those who are not in their group. The elitism evident in Corinth was

based upon two things: (1) who they followed – who their leader was; and, (2) the message

and method of their leader. To learn more, click here.

 

Week Six: The Jerusalem Council

INTRODUCTION:

In the earliest days of the Christian church, the church was comprised predominately of

Jews. In Acts chapter 8 the gospel spread to the Samaritans (who were ethnically mixed

Jews-Gentiles), and many Samaritans received Jesus Christ as Savior. In Acts chapter 10, the

apostle Peter was the first to take the gospel specifically to the Gentiles, and many received

Christ as Savior. In Acts chapters 13—14, Paul and Barnabas had a very fruitful ministry among

the Gentiles.

All of these Gentiles turning to faith in Christ caused concern among the Jewish believers,

first expressed in Acts 11:1–18, and the issues that caused concern were ultimately decided

upon at the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15). The issues centred on two questions: Do Gentiles

first have to become Jews before they can become Christians? Do Gentiles have to observe

the Mosaic Law after they become Christians? To learn more, click here.

 

Week Seven: Conflict in the society

INTRODUCTION:

Conflict is a disagreement resulting from actual or perceived differences or incompatibilities.

Every conflict is accompanied by misunderstanding which often which usually escalates the

conflict. Therefore, inasmuch as we all should do our best to avoid conflict, it should be

known that as long as we live on earth, conflict is part of our existence and as such,

inevitable. To learn more, click here.

 

Week Eight: Further spread of the church

INTRODUCTION:

Philippi was a Roman colony and Paul went there for his second missionary journey. While

there, he went out one day to look for a place of worship, and once he found one, he

began preaching to some women who were gathered. One of them was a woman from

Thyatira named Lydia. She was a worshiper of God, and so God had opened her heart to

respond to Paul’s message. She and her household were then baptized. After the baptism

she invited Paul to come stay with them for some time. To learn more, click here.

Week Nine: Paul’s imprisonment at Philippi

INTRODUCTION:

In Philippi a slave girl is being used by her owners as a seer or fortune teller. The young

woman is possessed by a demon who quite accurately identifies Paul and Silas as “slaves of

the Most High God” who have come to reveal “a way of salvation.” She follows them, crying

out “These men are servants of the Highest God, who proclaim to you the way of

salvation”. After a few days of this, Paul is fed up, rebukes the spirit, and casts it out of her in

the name of Jesus. As a result, she also lost the ability to foretell the future which created no

little anger on the part of her owners. To learn more, click here.

 

Week Ten: Revision

This week, we would be doing a revision of all that we learned during the term.

Week Eleven: Examination

Afterward, we would write an examination, which would test our knowledge of what has

been taught so far.

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