April 6, 2025: Christ’s Once-for-All Sacrifice (Hebrews 9:23-28)

To begin the session:

Distribute copies of the “Types, Shadows, and Reality” exercise from the activity pages, which you can download here. Encourage participants to work together to determine answers to the true/false quiz. State that you will not collect the completed quizzes. After participants finish, poll the class members on how they answered each question. Write on the board the results of your polling as participants voice their choices. Note the lack of unanimity as you announce that there are no answers that can be stated to be correct beyond a reasonable doubt, given the limited information available from a shadow.

After the activity, say, “It is important to distinguish ‘the real thing’ from ‘representations of the real thing.’ As we do, we learn that the representations aren’t necessarily counterfeit but are predictive or foreshadowing. In today’s lesson, stay alert for the symbols and shadows to consider the greater truths they represent.”