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"Should I Tell Others About Jesus?”
Big Idea
Tell everyone the good news.
Materials Needed:
1. Blindfold 2. Sandwiches: one peanut butter and jelly, one peanut butter and spaghetti (make sure no bits of spaghetti are sticking past the edges of the bread) 3. Bible
Setup:
None.
Lesson
1. Review the big idea from last meeting's lesson: "Switch meanness with
kindness Ask the question, "How should I deal with mea people?" and
have the children repeat the big idea a few times, doing the motions
below as you say each word.
Switch: pretend to turn a steering wheel 180°
Meanness: punch your palm
Kindness: give yourself a hug
2. Explain the following:
The question we're going to talk about this week is "Should I tell others about Jesus?" (Write this question on a chalk/wipe board.) We'll act out a couple of situations and see if that will give us a clue.
3. Ask for a volunteer to come up front. When he/she does, ask him/her to pick someone that they really trust to come up front and join him/her. Explain the following:
We're first going to look at how important it is for us to let someone know when we have important news for them. In a second, one of you will be blindfolded. I'm then going to put out two sandwiches.
One sandwich will be a regular old peanut butter and jelly. The other, however, will be peanut butter and spaghetti, which I'm sure doesn't taste pretty good.
I'll then let the one who isn't blindfolded take a peek at the two sandwiches and tell the other which sandwich to eat, the one on the right or the one on the left.
Do what you've just described, blindfolding the first child and instructing the other to indicate which sandwich the first should eat.
When finished, remove the blindfold and instruct the two children to return to their seats.
4. Explain the following:
As you can see, it's pretty important to let someone know if we have news that they need to know. If we don't tell them, they might end up eating a peanut butter and spaghetti sandwich!
Imagine if you had even more important information for somebody. Like, maybe they start crossing the street and forget to look both ways. A car is barreling down the road right at them. It'd be pretty important to tell them that they're about to get hit by a car!
5. Explain the following:
Now that we know it's pretty important to tell someone if we have important news for them, let take a look at some news we have to tell people.
Invite a child to come up front and read Mark 16:15-16 from the Bible. "He said to them, "Go into all the world. Preach the good news to everyone. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who does not believe will be punished." Invite your volunteer to sit down, and explain the following:
The Bible tells us we have important news that other people need to know. The news we have is this: Jesus is God's son, he came to earth to die on the cross for our sins, he rose from the dead, and if we believe in him and make him our master, our sins will be forgiven and we'll spend forever with God.
The Bible also tells us to "preach the good news to everyone." We definitely need to tell those around us about Jesus. Just like it's important to tell someone if their sandwich has spaghetti in it, it's even more important to tell people about Jesus and how they can spend forever with God. We need to tell everyone the good news."
9. Explain that the big idea from today's lesson is: "Tell everyone the good news." Ask the question, "Should I tell others about Jesus?" and have the children repeat the big idea a few times, doing the motions below as you say each word.