Junior Section Bible Competition
The Junior Section Bible Quiz will be held on Friday 28th March 2014 at Priory Methodist Church, Bedford, starting at 7.30 pm.
The format of the quiz will be similar to 2013.
Each company can enter any number of teams consisting of three junior boys, no more than one of whom may be a third year.The highest score achieved by any team from a company will count towards the Battalion Bible Quiz Trophy
All questions will be set using the Good News translation.
It is a team quiz and all the teams will have the same questions and be required to appoint a scribe who can record their agreed answer.
The quiz will consist of 5 rounds of 6 questions, with a possible 2 marks available for each question.
The quiz will include a general Bible knowledge round, a spelling round, and a number of rounds based on the following passages:
Bible Reading
One boy from each company will read the set passage out loud, without a microphone, as if reading in church.
The boy can be from any team entered by the company.
They must read from a copy of the Good News Bible; use of a printed sheet is not permitted.
The reader should introduce their reading, for example, "This reading is Matthew chapter 4, verses 21 to 24." The introduction should be done from memory.
A maximum of 10 marks are available. The judges will be listening for the following things:
Set passages for reading:
Mime
One team (of 3 boys) from each company will perform a mime based the set passage. The team can be made up of any 3 boys from the company, and could include boys who did not take part in the quiz.
The mime should last no longer than 2 minutes
No spoken words, sound effects or props are permitted.
A maximum of 10 marks are available. The judges will be looking for the following things:
There will be a 2 point penalty for a team that uses any sort of aide-memoire to help them perform the mime.
Set passage for mime:
The points scored by a company will be calculated by adding the highest score achieved by any of their teams in the quiz, the score for the reading and the score for the mime.
Would all companies please confirm their attendance and the number of teams they are entering OR OTHERWISE to Andrew Burchell by Wednesday 26th March.
The quiz this year has been set by our new Battalion Chaplain, Mike Lewis. It would be great to welcome him with a good turnout.
John 6: 16-20 Jesus Walks on the Water
When evening came, Jesus' disciples went down to the lake, got into a boat, and went back across the lake toward Capernaum. Night came on, and Jesus still had not come to them. By then a strong wind was blowing and stirring up the water. The disciples had rowed about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the water, coming near the boat, and they were terrified. “Don't be afraid,” Jesus told them, “it is I!” Then they willingly took him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached land at the place they were heading for.
Luke 5: 2-11 Jesus calls the first disciples
He saw two boats pulled up on the beach; the fishermen had left them and were washing the nets. Jesus got into one of the boats—it belonged to Simon—and asked him to push off a little from the shore. Jesus sat in the boat and taught the crowd.
When he finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Push the boat out further to the deep water, and you and your partners let down your nets for a catch.”
“Master,” Simon answered, “we worked hard all night long and caught nothing. But if you say so, I will let down the nets.” They let them down and caught such a large number of fish that the nets were about to break. So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats so full of fish that the boats were about to sink. When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he fell on his knees before Jesus and said, “Go away from me, Lord! I am a sinful man!”
He and the others with him were all amazed at the large number of fish they had caught. The same was true of Simon's partners, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. Jesus said to Simon, “Don't be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”
They pulled the boats up on the beach, left everything, and followed Jesus.
Luke 8: 22-25 Jesus calms the storm
As they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. Suddenly a strong wind blew down on the lake, and the boat began to fill with water, so that they were all in great danger. The disciples went to Jesus and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master! We are about to die!”
Jesus got up and gave an order to the wind and to the stormy water; they quieted down, and there was a great calm. Then he said to the disciples, “Where is your faith?”
But they were amazed and afraid, and said to one another, “Who is this man? He gives orders to the winds and waves, and they obey him!”
Matthew 4: 21-24 Jesus Teaches, Preaches, and Heals
He went on and saw two other brothers, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in their boat with their father Zebedee, getting their nets ready. Jesus called them, and at once they left the boat and their father, and went with him.
Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, preaching the Good News about the Kingdom, and healing people who had all kinds of disease and sickness. The news about him spread through the whole country of Syria, so that people brought to him all those who were sick, suffering from all kinds of diseases and disorders: people with demons, and epileptics, and paralytics—and Jesus healed them all.
Matthew 14: 22-33 Jesus Walks on the Water
Then Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side of the lake, while he sent the people away. After sending the people away, he went up a hill by himself to pray. When evening came, Jesus was there alone; and by this time the boat was far out in the lake, tossed about by the waves, because the wind was blowing against it.
Between three and six o'clock in the morning Jesus came to the disciples, walking on the water. When they saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. “It's a ghost!” they said, and screamed with fear.
Jesus spoke to them at once. “Courage!” he said. “It is I. Don't be afraid!”
Then Peter spoke up. “Lord, if it is really you, order me to come out on the water to you.”
“Come!” answered Jesus. So Peter got out of the boat and started walking on the water to Jesus. But when he noticed the strong wind, he was afraid and started to sink down in the water. “Save me, Lord!” he cried.
At once Jesus reached out and grabbed hold of him and said, “What little faith you have! Why did you doubt?”
They both got into the boat, and the wind died down. Then the disciples in the boat worshiped Jesus. “Truly you are the Son of God!” they exclaimed.