Show&Tell grew from a desire to aid Bible centred youth and children's workers. We realised that loads of youth and children's workers produce excellent material for youth groups, Sunday schools, CU's, assemblies etc. which are only used once or twice. So, we thought it would be good to provide a way for those resources to be shared with other workers. That's what Show&Tell is all about.
We want youth and children's worker to provide us with the stuff they've written. The resources don't need to be perfect, polished resources. The idea of Show&Tell is not to give people resources they can download five minutes before a meeting and simply read out. It is intended that people will download resources and use them to stimulate ideas as a part of their own planning.
We've used the words 'Bible centred' quite a bit through the site, with good reason. Show&Tell believe that the only way youth and children's work can be truly useful is for it to be based on the Bible. This doesn't mean that every resources is a 30 minute sermon but it does mean that we want every resource to be faithful to God's word.
With that in mind, we can't promise to include every resource that is submitted. We will check every resource to make sure it's faithful to God's word and holds to what we believe (see below). We're not trying to judge. None of the resources are going to be perfect but please make sure they're not heretical!
What we believe...
- There is one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- God is sovereign in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgement.
- The Bible, as originally given, is the inspired and infallible Word of God. It is the supreme authority in all matters of belief and behaviour.
- Since the fall, the whole of humankind is sinful and guilty, so that everyone is subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
- The Lord Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son, is fully God; he was born of a virgin; his humanity is real and sinless; he died on the cross, was raised bodily from death and is now reigning over heaven and earth.
- Sinful human beings are redeemed from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only through the sacrificial death once and for all time of their representative and substitute, Jesus Christ, the only mediator between them and God.
- Those who believe in Christ are pardoned all their sins and accepted in God's sight only because of the righteousness of Christ credited to them; this justification is God's act of undeserved mercy, received solely by trust in him and not by their own efforts.
- The Holy Spirit alone makes the work of Christ effective to individual sinners, enabling them to turn to God from their sin and to trust in Jesus Christ.
- The Holy Spirit lives in all those he has regenerated. He makes them increasingly Christlike in character and behaviour and gives them power for their witness in the world.
- The one holy universal church is the Body of Christ, to which all true believers belong.
- The Lord Jesus Christ will return in person, to judge everyone, to execute God's just condemnation on those who have not repented and to receive the redeemed to eternal glory.