Title: Jesus in the Spotlight
Author: Kay Arthur
Publisher: Harvest House
Date: 1999
ISBN: 0-7369-0119-1
Length: 128 pages
Illustrations: drawings by Steve Bjorkman
Quote: “When a director plans amovie, he first creates what is known as a storyboard.”
Kay and Jack Arthur teach “inductive” Bible studies, a more intellectual approach than the usual devotional reading method. In some of Kay Arthur’s inductive Bible study books for kids, she has them looking up words in Greek dictionaries. This book studies only the English translation of the Gospel According to St John, but it gives Sunday School or Vacation Bible School students plenty to look up and write down, and lots of suggestions for more active ways to ingrain the material studied into their minds.
As I’ve said about some other books by this author, despite the kiddie cartoons and storyline, the study is intensive enough (and the material studied is profound enough) to make a fairly challenging first study guide for adults.
Know your students. For some middle school students, an intellectual challenge is just what they need to relieve the urge to fidget, bicker, and give smart-alecky answers. Others may resort to more bad behavior because the fourth Gospel is well over their heads. (I was an advanced reader, but long after I’d read the other three Gospels, John’s first chapter put me off.) Any book in this series is worth bringing to a group of students between grades four and nine; that doesn’t mean that even this relatively easy one will work for every group.
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