Good or bad?
Children's sermon
Object:
a candle, a box of matches
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than
to suffer for doing evil. (v. 17)
Good morning, boys and girls. What do your father and mother teach you about matches? (let them answer) Don't play with matches! That is something that every mother and father teaches their children.
Playing with matches can be very dangerous, can't it? What happens if you are not very careful with matches? (let them answer) That's right, you can start a fire and burn down your house or burn yourself if you are not really careful.
What else can you do with matches that can be good? (let them answer) You light a candle but you still have to be careful. (light the candle) What does a candle do? (let them answer) A candle gives us light when it is dark. If we lose our electricity because of a storm then a candle can give us enough light to see. We can still burn ourselves lighting candles if we are not careful.
There are a lot of things that are good and bad. They are good if we use them the right way and bad if we use them the wrong way. Medicine is good if we take just the right amount but it can be very bad if we take more than we are supposed to take, or if we take someone else's medicine.
Driving a car can be good if we are a safe driver, but if we are not safe drivers then we can have a wreck and hurt a lot of people.
God tells us that not everything is safe. Sometimes the things that we think are good can still make us hurt. Loving someone very much can hurt if they leave you and move away. Your heart really hurts but you still love them and hope that the hurt goes away. Helping poor people can be a really good thing but when we see how the poor suffer, we hurt inside.
That kind of suffering or hurt is a good pain, even if we feel bad. Just like a match can do good things or bad things. The same match that lights a candle can cause a fire or burn a person.
The next time you take a look at a match I want you to think about good hurting and bad hurting. We should always choose doing good things even if we hurt and never do bad things that also cause hurt. Amen.
Good morning, boys and girls. What do your father and mother teach you about matches? (let them answer) Don't play with matches! That is something that every mother and father teaches their children.
Playing with matches can be very dangerous, can't it? What happens if you are not very careful with matches? (let them answer) That's right, you can start a fire and burn down your house or burn yourself if you are not really careful.
What else can you do with matches that can be good? (let them answer) You light a candle but you still have to be careful. (light the candle) What does a candle do? (let them answer) A candle gives us light when it is dark. If we lose our electricity because of a storm then a candle can give us enough light to see. We can still burn ourselves lighting candles if we are not careful.
There are a lot of things that are good and bad. They are good if we use them the right way and bad if we use them the wrong way. Medicine is good if we take just the right amount but it can be very bad if we take more than we are supposed to take, or if we take someone else's medicine.
Driving a car can be good if we are a safe driver, but if we are not safe drivers then we can have a wreck and hurt a lot of people.
God tells us that not everything is safe. Sometimes the things that we think are good can still make us hurt. Loving someone very much can hurt if they leave you and move away. Your heart really hurts but you still love them and hope that the hurt goes away. Helping poor people can be a really good thing but when we see how the poor suffer, we hurt inside.
That kind of suffering or hurt is a good pain, even if we feel bad. Just like a match can do good things or bad things. The same match that lights a candle can cause a fire or burn a person.
The next time you take a look at a match I want you to think about good hurting and bad hurting. We should always choose doing good things even if we hurt and never do bad things that also cause hurt. Amen.
