The Drawing Power Of Christ
Children's sermon
... Let the Children Come
Fifty-two Object Lessons For Children In Worship
Object:
Toy magnet (Note: Be prepared with a magnet and several objects that will be attracted to it. Little metal figures would be very helpful!)
Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever experimented with a magnet? Do you know what a magnet does? (Responses.) Do you understand how a magnet works? Well, without being too technical, a magnet is a piece of metal -- usually iron, steel, cobalt or nickel -- which has been charged with a magnetic field so that it attracts other particles of like metals. I have with me a magnet. Now, if I pass this over the spot where other bits of metal are, what do you think will happen? Let's try it! See, the smaller bits just jump onto the magnet and even larger pieces hold on tight. It is even possible for a magnet to be so strong that it is hard for a bit of metal to escape from its grasp. There are lots of ways in which magnets are used in our everyday world, such as electric motors, but we're not here to talk about that today. What I wanted you to see was the power of attraction, or the ability of the magnet to draw things to itself.
There is a passage in the Bible where Jesus speaks of his death on the cross in that way. He said that when He was lifted up off the earth, He would draw all men to himself. And over the centuries since He died on Calvary's cross, that is what has happened. Men and women, boys and girls, have been drawn to Jesus. We have learned of God's love for us and of the sacrifice that Jesus made to bring us back to God, and to be forgiven of sin. We have wanted to come to him. We are still drawn by Jesus to himself, and that is evident in the fact that we come here to this place to praise and worship him.
I hope our experiments with this toy magnet will serve to remind you of how God draws us to himself through the cross of Jesus.
(Prayer of thanksgiving for the work of Jesus on the cross.)
There is a passage in the Bible where Jesus speaks of his death on the cross in that way. He said that when He was lifted up off the earth, He would draw all men to himself. And over the centuries since He died on Calvary's cross, that is what has happened. Men and women, boys and girls, have been drawn to Jesus. We have learned of God's love for us and of the sacrifice that Jesus made to bring us back to God, and to be forgiven of sin. We have wanted to come to him. We are still drawn by Jesus to himself, and that is evident in the fact that we come here to this place to praise and worship him.
I hope our experiments with this toy magnet will serve to remind you of how God draws us to himself through the cross of Jesus.
(Prayer of thanksgiving for the work of Jesus on the cross.)
