Emphasis Preaching Journal

From the mouth of babes: Little Kimmy, aged five, was trying to deal with the death of her grandfather. She had been told that Opa had died and was with Jesus now in heaven. Then Kimmy heard the reading in church about the living bread, and whoever eats of Jesus the living bread would live forever. She was confused and asked her grandmother, “Oma, why didn’t Opa eat Jesus, ’cause then he wouldn’t have died.” Grandma then gently explained that eating the living bread meant believing in Jesus, and that because Opa had believed he was now living in heaven with Jesus. That satisfied Kimmy ...