Expectations
Children's sermon
A Time To Plant
52 Children's Sermons
How many of you love to go to school? Raise your hands. Suppose you loved to go school. You loved to read and write, do math problems and science experiments. School was your all-time favorite place to be. Let's suppose summer was about to end and it was time to go back to school. You couldn't wait to do all those neat "school" things that you enjoyed doing. But when you got to school you found there would be no reading and writing, no math and no science. Instead you were simply going to sit at your desk all day and listen to music. That would be a letdown. That's not what school was meant to be and it would not be what you had expected.
Suppose you wanted to be on the football team. You liked wearing the uniform and tackling other people. You liked running and throwing and catching the ball. But when you got to football practice, the coach said there would be no uniforms or running or catching or tackling. You were not actually going to play football. Instead you were going to listen to other people tell you about playing football for the whole season! That would be disappointing, wouldn't it? It would not be what you had expected.
Imagine you went to the toy store and only found books. Don't we have the right to expect a toy store to have toys? If it says it's a toy store, shouldn't it be like a toy store?
How about a church? People who have never been to church do not always know what to expect. Most of them expect that if they come to a church, the church people will be nice, friendly, and accepting. They expect that they can come to worship God even if they do not look like everyone else or dress like everyone else. They should be able to expect these things.
You would be disappointed if you went to school and it was not what you expected school to be, or if you went to football practice and there was something else in its place, or if you went to the toy store and there were no toys. People coming to church hoping to find God's loving, kind, and fair people will be terribly disappointed if they get to church and find people who are unkind and cruel.
Let's make sure that people looking to find God and God's people always find exactly what they are looking for at our church. God bless you.
Suppose you wanted to be on the football team. You liked wearing the uniform and tackling other people. You liked running and throwing and catching the ball. But when you got to football practice, the coach said there would be no uniforms or running or catching or tackling. You were not actually going to play football. Instead you were going to listen to other people tell you about playing football for the whole season! That would be disappointing, wouldn't it? It would not be what you had expected.
Imagine you went to the toy store and only found books. Don't we have the right to expect a toy store to have toys? If it says it's a toy store, shouldn't it be like a toy store?
How about a church? People who have never been to church do not always know what to expect. Most of them expect that if they come to a church, the church people will be nice, friendly, and accepting. They expect that they can come to worship God even if they do not look like everyone else or dress like everyone else. They should be able to expect these things.
You would be disappointed if you went to school and it was not what you expected school to be, or if you went to football practice and there was something else in its place, or if you went to the toy store and there were no toys. People coming to church hoping to find God's loving, kind, and fair people will be terribly disappointed if they get to church and find people who are unkind and cruel.
Let's make sure that people looking to find God and God's people always find exactly what they are looking for at our church. God bless you.
