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Children's Sermons for Epiphany 5 | Ordinary Time 5
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Saved to Serve | Mark 1:29-39
First Thoughts: This scripture passage is a great lead-in to a conversation about need and gratitude. How do we respond when someone sees our need and responds to it? Are we embarrassed or angry? Do we refuse to receive help? Or do we open our hearts to accept the gift and with those same open hearts offer our gifts back? If we find ourselves struggling either to give or receive support, this story holds a challenge for us.
Props You Will Need: none
Teaching As A Team:
Leader 1: Hey, (name) what are your plans this afternoon?
Leader 2: (looking a bit embarrassed) I'm going to a thank-you dinner.
Leader 1: Oh, that's nice. Who are you thanking?
Leader 2: I'm not thanking anyone. They're thanking me.
Leader 1: Wow. What did you do?
Leader 2: It's no big deal. Yesterday I was at the grocery store and when I turned down the candy aisle I saw a little girl crying. She was lost from her mother.
Leader 1: Oh, I bet she was scared.
Leader 2: Yeah, she was. But I told her that things would be all right. I would take care of her. I took her to the store manager. She made an announcement on the store's speaker system, and I stayed with the little girl until her mother came to get her. It was really no big deal.
Leader 1: Yes it was! That little girl could have been hurt if she had been left on her own. I imagine she and her mother were very grateful. No wonder they wanted to invite you to dinner!
Leader 2: But I'm kinda embarrassed about it. I didn't help her because I wanted the attention!
Leader 1: No, but that's the way gratitude works. When someone does something you really appreciate, you want to do something nice in return. Like our story today. Jesus was staying at his friend Peter's house while Peter's mother-in-law was very sick. Back then they didn't have the medicine we have today, so being sick was a very scary thing.
Leader 2: Just like the lost girl was scared....
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