Connected to Jesus
Children's sermon
Object:
a small belt you can fix around the right leg of one child and the left leg
of the other child
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:30)
Good morning, boys and girls. Do you like to do things with someone else? (let them answer) Do you wash the dishes together, help each other clean your room, take the dog for a walk together, or feed your pets together? (let them answer)
I brought with me a little belt that we are going to use to connect two people's legs so they can learn how to be a team. (put the belt around their legs) Now it is very important that you both try to think of the other person when you try to walk around. (let them walk up and down the aisle or across the front of the nave) How are you doing? Do you think you could win a race walking like this? (let them answer) Sometimes you have to think about the other person as much as yourself.
How many of you have seen pictures of horses pulling a stagecoach in the movies? (let them answer) How many times have you seen two oxen pull a plow in the field or something very heavy out of a forest? They all have to learn to work together. When they are doing a job like pulling a stagecoach there are big leather straps that connect them and keep them together. One horse can't run faster than the other. One horse can't turn a different way than the other horse. Those leather straps are very important to making the job of pulling easier.
Jesus is connected to us, also. Jesus does a lot of the hard things for us that we could not do alone. When Jesus connects to us, we are able to think better, take care of each other better, and know a lot of joy that we would not know if we were not connected. So every day when we get up in the morning and say our prayers, we should ask Jesus to connect to us today and go with us wherever we go. When Jesus is connected to us, life is a lot easier and we are more certain to enjoy our lives in a better way. Amen.
Good morning, boys and girls. Do you like to do things with someone else? (let them answer) Do you wash the dishes together, help each other clean your room, take the dog for a walk together, or feed your pets together? (let them answer)
I brought with me a little belt that we are going to use to connect two people's legs so they can learn how to be a team. (put the belt around their legs) Now it is very important that you both try to think of the other person when you try to walk around. (let them walk up and down the aisle or across the front of the nave) How are you doing? Do you think you could win a race walking like this? (let them answer) Sometimes you have to think about the other person as much as yourself.
How many of you have seen pictures of horses pulling a stagecoach in the movies? (let them answer) How many times have you seen two oxen pull a plow in the field or something very heavy out of a forest? They all have to learn to work together. When they are doing a job like pulling a stagecoach there are big leather straps that connect them and keep them together. One horse can't run faster than the other. One horse can't turn a different way than the other horse. Those leather straps are very important to making the job of pulling easier.
Jesus is connected to us, also. Jesus does a lot of the hard things for us that we could not do alone. When Jesus connects to us, we are able to think better, take care of each other better, and know a lot of joy that we would not know if we were not connected. So every day when we get up in the morning and say our prayers, we should ask Jesus to connect to us today and go with us wherever we go. When Jesus is connected to us, life is a lot easier and we are more certain to enjoy our lives in a better way. Amen.
