Transcript What`s Inside a Rock

What’s Inside a Rock?
Did you know that the earth is
a giant ball of rock? Once a
year it whirls an orbit around
the sun. Our moon, too, is a
great ball of rock.
Rocks are made up of mixtures
of minerals. They are solid,
with particles held firmly
together. It takes millions of
years for most rocks to form.
Geologists divide them into 3 types based on
the way the rock forms:
Igneous rocks form when the molten lava from
earth’s centre cools and hardens. The cooling
sometimes happens beneath the earth’s
surface, and the process is long and slow. The
cooling may also take place on earth’s surface
through volcanoes or cracks in the earth.
Most sedimentary rocks form in water. When
rivers flow into lakes and seas, they carry with
them a variety of sediments: mud, silt, and
pebbles. The particles eventually settle to the
bottom. Over millions of years, layers of those
sediments build up and cement together to
form rock.
Metamorphic rock is made up of igneous and
sedimentary rocks that have been forced
together by great heat and pressure to form a
new kind of rock.
Whatever their origin, rocks go through a
hardening process and come together in solid
form.
The process of making friends can be compared
to the process of rock formation. Think about
it. It takes time and effort to develop
friendships. Once formed, however,
friendships are solid, like rock.
A friend is someone who.....
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You can trust with a secret
Is loyal and generous
Is funny
Won`t laugh at you
Never lets you down
Cheers you up
Cares for you
You can play with
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Won`t go behind your back
Never forgets you
Always sticks with you
Respects you
Likes to be with you
Helps you
Is honest
You can talk to
Shares your interests
Won`t hurt you
Thinks of you first
• What is the greatest thing we can do for one
another?
• “To Love,” Jesus says. “Love one another as I have
love you.”
• How do these words of Jesus make you feel?
• Read for yourself Jesus’ words about love and
friendship in 1John 4. 7-8, 11 and in John
15.12,15.
• What is Jesus telling us?
• What do the words....love is from God, mean?
• God’s Love and Ours
• 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
• John 15:12-15
• New International Version (NIV)
• 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s
friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no
longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his
master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything
that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
• What is Jesus telling us?
• What do the words....love is from God, mean?