Taking care of you
Children's sermon
Object:
a comb, a pair of scissors
But when he heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a
physician, but those who are sick." (Matthew 9:12)
Good morning, boys and girls. I want to ask you a question. When your hair gets long and shaggy, where do you go? (let them answer) That's right, you go to the barbershop or the beauty parlor. Every so often you visit the barbershop to get rid of your shaggy hair or you have your mom or dad cut your hair so that it looks good. The older we get, the more important it seems to become. Hair is something we have to take care of every day with a brush or a comb.
The person who cuts your hair uses a pair of scissors and a comb (hold up the comb and scissors) to make sure that your hair is about the same length on each side of your head and just the right length in the front and the back. If you let it grow too long, people talk about it. If it is not combed every day people talk about it. Hair is important to take care of if we want to look good.
If you don't have any hair the barber is not a place that you have to visit. Do you know anyone that doesn't have hair? (let them answer) Some men don't have much hair or very little. They don't have to go to the barbershop very often or they don't have to go at all. Babies sometimes have very little hair, also.
Jesus was a very good person and everyone knew it. Jesus was the best example of a person that anyone ever knew. That's because he did not sin against God or any of the people that he lived with or just met. But one day there was a fuss about Jesus. There were some people that wanted Jesus to make a mistake and so they watched everything he did. Once Jesus went to the home of a person who did not have a very good reputation. The other people who were there also were not well liked and they were known as sinners. Good people don't hang around with sinners very often and especially people that teach about God. At least this is what the people who were trying to catch Jesus making a mistake thought. They told everyone that Jesus was speaking and eating with sinners.
It didn't take long for Jesus to hear about this and how the "right kind of people" were saying bad things about him. Jesus went to the complainers and told them that he had come to help people out of their sin and not leave them in sin. If you have shaggy hair, the barber is there to get rid of the shaggy hair. Jesus came to care for sinners and help them see how to be like people of God and get away from the evil things that they do.
After the picky people learned this, they were a little more careful about what they said and they learned something new about Jesus. Jesus loves all of us, even people who are bad. He loves them and makes them good people. Amen.
Good morning, boys and girls. I want to ask you a question. When your hair gets long and shaggy, where do you go? (let them answer) That's right, you go to the barbershop or the beauty parlor. Every so often you visit the barbershop to get rid of your shaggy hair or you have your mom or dad cut your hair so that it looks good. The older we get, the more important it seems to become. Hair is something we have to take care of every day with a brush or a comb.
The person who cuts your hair uses a pair of scissors and a comb (hold up the comb and scissors) to make sure that your hair is about the same length on each side of your head and just the right length in the front and the back. If you let it grow too long, people talk about it. If it is not combed every day people talk about it. Hair is important to take care of if we want to look good.
If you don't have any hair the barber is not a place that you have to visit. Do you know anyone that doesn't have hair? (let them answer) Some men don't have much hair or very little. They don't have to go to the barbershop very often or they don't have to go at all. Babies sometimes have very little hair, also.
Jesus was a very good person and everyone knew it. Jesus was the best example of a person that anyone ever knew. That's because he did not sin against God or any of the people that he lived with or just met. But one day there was a fuss about Jesus. There were some people that wanted Jesus to make a mistake and so they watched everything he did. Once Jesus went to the home of a person who did not have a very good reputation. The other people who were there also were not well liked and they were known as sinners. Good people don't hang around with sinners very often and especially people that teach about God. At least this is what the people who were trying to catch Jesus making a mistake thought. They told everyone that Jesus was speaking and eating with sinners.
It didn't take long for Jesus to hear about this and how the "right kind of people" were saying bad things about him. Jesus went to the complainers and told them that he had come to help people out of their sin and not leave them in sin. If you have shaggy hair, the barber is there to get rid of the shaggy hair. Jesus came to care for sinners and help them see how to be like people of God and get away from the evil things that they do.
After the picky people learned this, they were a little more careful about what they said and they learned something new about Jesus. Jesus loves all of us, even people who are bad. He loves them and makes them good people. Amen.
