

Ask Him to help you be a better witness for Him.Christ healing the paralytic at Bethesda, by Palma il Giovane, 1592. Thank Jesus for providing a way of salvation. Select and commit to praying for a lost friend. Consider having your child earn money to purchase their friend a Bible or another activity that helps the child to begin to share Jesus with the lost. Talk about other ways your child can be a good friend and witness to their friends. Continue to come up withĮxamples of ways that we can show versus just telling.Ĭonsider helping your child be a better friend by offering to take one of their unsaved friends to Sunday School or church. Without complaining about something we really want. It is easier to say I am patient than to wait Talk about how it isĮasier to say I love you than to do something (like cleaning one’s room withoutīeing asked) that shows love.

Versus his sins being forgiven not being seen by others. Realize that it was because everyone could see whether the man could walk It would be easier for Jesus to forgive sins than heal the man. The man’s physical problem and his heart. Walking can be helped by doctors, this man was instantaneously healed just Explain that although some people who have trouble Talk about how some things are called miraculous when theyĪre really just rare. Think about how amazing Jesus is to always know our TalkĪbout how even if someone says what they were thinking they might not be Have to guess what other people are thinking, but Jesus always knows. Ask the child to tell you what you are thinking. Explain that we should be goodįriends and tell our friends about Jesus and invite them to church.Įverything. Need Jesus, too, to save them from their sins. Explain that the paralyzed man’s friends didn’t give up butįound another way to take their friend to Jesus. Succeeded in removing the coin because you did not give up and you thought of aĭifferent way. The child’s age, you may choose to come up with a similar puzzle that better Realizing that the coin can be dumped out of the container. Encourage them that they can retrieve the coin,īut that they need to think a different way. When they fail, ask them if theyĬan think if another way to get the coin out without touching the strings. Will try but not be able to remove the coin. (The goal is for the child to not be able to remove theĬoin.) Ask the child to remove the coin without touching the strings. Top with gaps that are wide enough for the child to put their hand in but not Using string or rubber bands, create a mesh on the Create a simple puzzle using a plastic container. Explain that sometimes we have to think about another
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Perhaps they struggled to learn how to tie their The friends could have given up, but they persevered.Ĭhild has wanted to give up. Ask if they think it would be easy to carry a big bed through Ask the child if they have ever been in a big crowd. Talk about how they carried him to the house where Jesus Explain that the friends of the paralyzed man wanted Think about ways that people show their friends Nicest thing they have ever done for their friend and the nicest thing theirįriends have done for them. Talk about how friends are there for each other.
