His Kids: Faith-Based Training for Childcare Professionals

Unit 1: Let Them Come

Questions 1-25

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1. In Mark 10:13-16, why were the parents bringing their children to Jesus?
	a) They needed a baby-sitter.
	b) That He might touch and bless them.
	c) That He might feed them.

2. Why did the disciples try to keep the children away from Jesus?
	a) So they wouldn’t bother Jesus while He was teaching.
	b) So He wouldn’t waste His time with them.
	c) So He would have more time to teach the adults who had come to hear Him.
	d) All of the above

3. What reason did Jesus give for wanting to receive children?
	a) The kingdom of God belongs to people who are like little children.
	b) He wanted to baptize them.
	c) He wanted to scold them for bothering Him.
	d) He hoped their parents would give Him money.

4. How can you identify adults who do not like to be around children?
	a) They ignore children who try to speak to them.
	b) They push children away who want to be held or hugged.
	c) They can never find time to play a simple game with a child.
	d) All of the above

5. Should adults who don't like children work at a child care center?
	Yes No

6. Children can usually sense when the adult taking care of them does not like children.
	True False

7.	What two words does Jesus have for a person whose marriage is falling apart, who is on the verge of bankruptcy, who has been told more medical tests are needed?

8.	Fear is our God-given detector, an inner alarm system,
	which warns us something is wrong and we should prepare to respond.

9. Exaggerated fear tends to:
	a) drain energy.
	b) enlarge or magnify the danger or threat.
	c) cloud judgment.
	d) limit the ability to think clearly.
	e) paralyze us, making decision-making nearly impossible.
	f) all of the above

10.	There are 66 books in the Bible, and 52 of the books have verses that tell us to “fear not.” There are actually 365 “fear not” verses in the Bible – one for each day of the year. Choose a verse from the Bible about fear that comforts you when you are worried or afraid.
	Type the Bible reference in the blank.

11. Adults tend to trust in:
	a) themselves.
	b) their own strength.
	c) their own intelligence.
	d) their own abilities.
	e) all of the above

12.	Read Matt. 6:25-32. List three reasons given in this passage as to why God says we should not worry about money, but instead just trust Him.
	a) Look at the of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. (vs. 26-27)
	b) Consider the of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (vs. 28-29)
	c) Therefore take no thought, saying, “What shall we eat?” or, “What shall we drink?” or, “How shall we be clothed?” (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly knows that ye have need of all these things. (vs. 31-32)

13.	Who is in control? Who is our source?

14. Many people put on a mask to hide who they really are.
a)	Have people who put on a mask ever fooled you? Yes No
b)	Can they fool God? Yes No

15.	Jesus repeatedly exposed the problem of duplicity and

16.	Children are usually wearing a mask, just like the adults around them.
	True
	False

17. God is looking for people:
	a) with the honesty to live for Him.
	b) who are willing to be different when serving Him.
	c) who will love Him, love His people and love His Kids.
	d) all of the above

18. Name the two people who were a godly example to Timothy as a child.
	a)
	b)

19.	God is looking for people who have the honesty of a

20.	We can learn to be real and honest from the children in our care, and we should always be careful to model honesty for them as well.
	True
	False

21. Read Luke 7:37-50. What was the woman doing that led the Pharisee to complain about her to Jesus?
	a) She was getting water from the well.
	b) She was tugging on the hem of Jesus’ garment.
	c) She was washing Jesus’ feet with her tears.
	d) All of the above

22. Why was the Pharisee upset about this?
a)		The Pharisee found the woman to be a distraction and a nuisance.
b)		The Pharisee thought that if Jesus were really a prophet, He would have known that a sinner was touching Him.
c)		The Pharisee was ashamed, because he had not offered to wash Jesus’ feet nor anoint His head with oil - as was the custom of hospitality in those days.
d)		All of the above

23. Did the disapproval of others stop the woman from doing this service for the Lord?
	Yes No

24.	Money, prestige, rudeness, pouting, and temper tantrums can give a child power.
	True False

25.	Children should be allowed to use the power they can get from a temper tantrum.
	True False

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