Making disciples
Children's sermon
Object:
a globe or a world map
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (v. 19)
Good morning, boys and girls. Did you know the earth had a little tummy? (let them answer) It does because I looked up how far it was to go around the earth at the middle and it is 24,901.55 miles. (show the globe or map) But if you go from the North Pole to the South Pole it is 24,859.8 miles. This means that the earth is 41.75 miles further around than it is tall.
Do you like big numbers? (let them answer) There are 194 countries in the world. There are people in all of these countries. We live in the United States of America. That is the name of our country. We are one of 23 different countries that make up the North American continent.
There is a lot to learn about our earth even though we know a lot about it already. We know the tallest mountain on the earth. We know the lowest place on the earth. We know the hottest and the coldest places on earth. But I want to talk about the 194 countries we sometimes call nations.
Jesus said that we should make disciples of all the people that live in the 194 countries. To make a disciple is one of the things that we are supposed to do. Jesus told his disciples to tell people like us that this was our job.
How many of you can count to 100? (let them answer) Very good! Do you think you could count to 1,000 or maybe 5,000? (let them answer) It would take a long time. There are about 6,602,224,175 people living in the world. That is a lot of people. There are 2,100,000,000 Christians in the world. That is good if you think that 2,000 years ago there were only about 100 people that called themselves disciples of Jesus. That means that if there are 3 people in the world 1 of the 3 people is a Christian. It also means that 2 people are not Christians. We have a really big job to make disciples in all of the 194 nations.
How do we make other disciples? We love them, forgive them, baptize them, read the Bible to them, share with them, and all of the other things that Jesus taught us to do.
When you have a chance I would like for you to look at a map and pick out a country. Maybe it is in South America or Africa or North America and find out how many people in that country are Christians. See how many are not Christians and ask Jesus how you may teach others to follow Jesus. This is something we should all do and I guess the best time to start is today. Be a disciple of Jesus and help someone else learn about Jesus each day of your life. Amen.
Good morning, boys and girls. Did you know the earth had a little tummy? (let them answer) It does because I looked up how far it was to go around the earth at the middle and it is 24,901.55 miles. (show the globe or map) But if you go from the North Pole to the South Pole it is 24,859.8 miles. This means that the earth is 41.75 miles further around than it is tall.
Do you like big numbers? (let them answer) There are 194 countries in the world. There are people in all of these countries. We live in the United States of America. That is the name of our country. We are one of 23 different countries that make up the North American continent.
There is a lot to learn about our earth even though we know a lot about it already. We know the tallest mountain on the earth. We know the lowest place on the earth. We know the hottest and the coldest places on earth. But I want to talk about the 194 countries we sometimes call nations.
Jesus said that we should make disciples of all the people that live in the 194 countries. To make a disciple is one of the things that we are supposed to do. Jesus told his disciples to tell people like us that this was our job.
How many of you can count to 100? (let them answer) Very good! Do you think you could count to 1,000 or maybe 5,000? (let them answer) It would take a long time. There are about 6,602,224,175 people living in the world. That is a lot of people. There are 2,100,000,000 Christians in the world. That is good if you think that 2,000 years ago there were only about 100 people that called themselves disciples of Jesus. That means that if there are 3 people in the world 1 of the 3 people is a Christian. It also means that 2 people are not Christians. We have a really big job to make disciples in all of the 194 nations.
How do we make other disciples? We love them, forgive them, baptize them, read the Bible to them, share with them, and all of the other things that Jesus taught us to do.
When you have a chance I would like for you to look at a map and pick out a country. Maybe it is in South America or Africa or North America and find out how many people in that country are Christians. See how many are not Christians and ask Jesus how you may teach others to follow Jesus. This is something we should all do and I guess the best time to start is today. Be a disciple of Jesus and help someone else learn about Jesus each day of your life. Amen.
