Looking for meaning- Lesson 3- Experiencing God.

DNA – C/W God and Meaning Date

•Explain the term freewill

• State some reasons for not believing in God=1.2.3.4.

•List two words to describe God in NATURE=1.2.

Experiencing God

Learning intentions:

• To be able to identify and explain the key ways people say they can experience God

Success criteria:

• To have identified the key features of each type of religious experience.

Think pair share

•If you wanted to know something is true what

could you do?

C/W God and Meaning Date

• For some religious people, believing in God isn’t just about faith.

• They believe that there are ways to know God exists and to experienceGod in some way.

Task...

• What are the 3 best, most interesting, most spectacular things you have ever seen?

1.

2.

3.

Write down 5 words you think of when you

see these pictures.

Awe: Some people believe that the sense of wonder at the world or when you

see some spectacular or inspiring natural event is a experience of God.

Why might they think this?

Revelation

•Write down 3 of your favourite facts, but make sure not to let the rest of your table see!

Revelation:If some thing is a revelation then you have learnt something entirely new

that you weren’t aware of before. For religious people they there are time when God reveals something about

himself to them.

Dave’s storyWhat happens to Dave?

How does he describe his situation? and what happened to him?

The personal approach...

Clip

1. What is happening in this clip?

2. What kind of way of experiencing God might this be?

Prayer:Prayer can be a very personal

way of experiencing God, alone or as part of a group

Miracles

Read/listen through the newspaper article on page 77.

1. Explain why the driver thinks it is a miracle.

2. What do you think, does this actually count as an experience of God? Give reasons for your answer.

Task

• In your books or on paper create a revision poster for the different ways in which people think they can experience God.

• The heading you will need are:

Awe Revelation Prayer Miracles

What to include:For each one your will need:•A brief summary of what it is

•Some examples to help your explain •A picture to help you remember what it is.

Question:

• Explain how a religious believer might experience God?

4 marks

Point Point

Evidence Evidence

Explanation Explanation

Plenary: Pop Quiz!

Someone who does not believes in God=

Reasons for believing in God=1.2.3.4.

Two ways you can experience God=1.2.