Decisions, decisions
Children's sermon
Object:
a ticket (facsimile) to an amusement park
Good morning! Let me show you this. (Show the ticket.) This
is a ticket to ______________ Park. Now I want you to imagine for
a moment that you were given a choice between going to this park
or attending church next Sunday. Now of course I know you would
like to do both, but let's just say you can only do one or the
other, not both. Which would you do? (Let them answer. Most will
want to go to the park.) Well, I can certainly understand why you
might do that. That park is a lot more fun than church, but which
do you think God wants you to do? (Let them answer.)
Saint Paul wrote that he had the same kind of problems with
decisions. He knew what God wanted him to do, but he often did
the opposite. We all have that problem. We usually know what the
right thing is, but for a lot of reasons we do the wrong thing.
Saint Paul, after he wrote about this problem, gave thanks to God
for Jesus Christ because he knew that if he turned to Jesus, he
would get the strength to do the right thing. Do you think maybe
that you and I should do the same thing when we face a hard
decision between right and wrong? Should we ask Jesus to help us
do the right thing? (Let them answer.) Yes, indeed. We really
should. Let's ask Jesus to help us right now.
Dear Jesus: Please help us to be strong when we have to make a
decision between right and wrong. Show us the right decision and
lead us to do the right thing. Amen.
is a ticket to ______________ Park. Now I want you to imagine for
a moment that you were given a choice between going to this park
or attending church next Sunday. Now of course I know you would
like to do both, but let's just say you can only do one or the
other, not both. Which would you do? (Let them answer. Most will
want to go to the park.) Well, I can certainly understand why you
might do that. That park is a lot more fun than church, but which
do you think God wants you to do? (Let them answer.)
Saint Paul wrote that he had the same kind of problems with
decisions. He knew what God wanted him to do, but he often did
the opposite. We all have that problem. We usually know what the
right thing is, but for a lot of reasons we do the wrong thing.
Saint Paul, after he wrote about this problem, gave thanks to God
for Jesus Christ because he knew that if he turned to Jesus, he
would get the strength to do the right thing. Do you think maybe
that you and I should do the same thing when we face a hard
decision between right and wrong? Should we ask Jesus to help us
do the right thing? (Let them answer.) Yes, indeed. We really
should. Let's ask Jesus to help us right now.
Dear Jesus: Please help us to be strong when we have to make a
decision between right and wrong. Show us the right decision and
lead us to do the right thing. Amen.
