Recruiting for Jesus
Children's sermon
Object:
travel, sale, and product pamphlets and brochures, plus your own church brochure
Good morning, boys and girls. I brought with me today some brochures. Here is a good one: it tells me about taking my family to Disney World. Look at all of the wonderful things you can do there. There are all kinds of rides and wonderful places to stay with swimming pools and a chance to meet Mickey and his friends. The brochure urges me to come and have a good time. Anyone want to go? (let them answer)
I have some other brochures that are also trying to recruit me. This one would like me to send some money to help their organization find a cure for heart disease. They are very thankful for anything we send. That seems like a good cause.
Here is another brochure from the YMCA. They want me to join. They want to teach me how to exercise better, and lose some weight while having a lot of fun. I can swim, play basketball, go to camp, and do many different things. They are recruiting me.
I also have a brochure about our church. We send it to people who visit us on Sunday or who are new in the neighborhood. We invite them to come back to worship and attend Sunday school. Our church is trying to recruit people. I carry some in my coat pocket and when I meet someone who asks me where I work, I give them one.
Jesus was also a recruiter. Do you remember how he recruited the disciples? (let them answer) He went to places where men fished, collected taxes, and farmed, and he asked those who heard him to follow him. Twelve of them did. Several times during his ministry he sent the twelve out to share his teachings and to heal, and they came back very excited. The Bible tells us of another time when he sent out seventy believers to preach and heal.
Jesus was getting ready to return to his Father in heaven and he asked his disciples to meet him at a mountain in Galilee. They all gathered there and then they walked up the mountain with him. There he gathered them very closely and said this to them: "Go out and recruit as many people as you can for the kingdom of God. Teach them, heal them, but most of all baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Make them followers of mine."
Jesus was about to return to the heavens but he did not want to leave without asking all believers to be part of the recruiting team. Today, we are Christians and part of the team. We also are recruiters for Jesus.
I have some other brochures that are also trying to recruit me. This one would like me to send some money to help their organization find a cure for heart disease. They are very thankful for anything we send. That seems like a good cause.
Here is another brochure from the YMCA. They want me to join. They want to teach me how to exercise better, and lose some weight while having a lot of fun. I can swim, play basketball, go to camp, and do many different things. They are recruiting me.
I also have a brochure about our church. We send it to people who visit us on Sunday or who are new in the neighborhood. We invite them to come back to worship and attend Sunday school. Our church is trying to recruit people. I carry some in my coat pocket and when I meet someone who asks me where I work, I give them one.
Jesus was also a recruiter. Do you remember how he recruited the disciples? (let them answer) He went to places where men fished, collected taxes, and farmed, and he asked those who heard him to follow him. Twelve of them did. Several times during his ministry he sent the twelve out to share his teachings and to heal, and they came back very excited. The Bible tells us of another time when he sent out seventy believers to preach and heal.
Jesus was getting ready to return to his Father in heaven and he asked his disciples to meet him at a mountain in Galilee. They all gathered there and then they walked up the mountain with him. There he gathered them very closely and said this to them: "Go out and recruit as many people as you can for the kingdom of God. Teach them, heal them, but most of all baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Make them followers of mine."
Jesus was about to return to the heavens but he did not want to leave without asking all believers to be part of the recruiting team. Today, we are Christians and part of the team. We also are recruiters for Jesus.
