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Jesus is our teacher
Jesus picked 10 disciples
Jesus likes children
Jesus died and stayed dead
Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ
Jesus is God’s Son
Jesus is our Saviour
Today I want to talk to you about confession. Already in the service we have confessed our sin and also confessed our faith. In the confession earlier in the service we said sorry to God for our sin and the pastor on behalf of God forgave us. And in the creed we confessed God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is the type of confession Jesus’ disciple Peter made in the gospel reading.
Jesus asked his disciples a very important question; “Who do you say that I am?” The disciples said some say a prophet others a teacher. Lots of people in the world say today that Jesus is just a prophet or a great teacher, but he’s much more than that.
I have some cards here that ask you who Jesus is? What I want you to do is answer true or false as I read them out:
Jesus was born in a hospital.....
Let’s look at those last three questions; Jesus is the Messiah, God’s Son, the Saviour. For the first Christians it was very dangerous for them to confess, to talk about their faith. They had to bow down and worship the Roman emperor, who was a king who had to be treated as god. So what they did apparently if they wanted to signal to another person that they were Christian was draw an arc in the dirt or on the road like this:
Then if a Christian saw it they would respond by drawing an arc on the other side of it like this:
(Encourage the children to draw a fish on the butcher’s paper/post-it note too)
(If you can attach the butcher’s paper/post-it note
to a wall in the sanctuary/church for everyone to see)
Let’s pray, Thank you
God for people who have faithfully confessed Jesus, people like the early
Christians. Help us also to confess Jesus and point people to him. Amen.
(If there are any fish depicted in your church’s furnishings or altar, lectern or pulpit paraments, Pastor’s stoles or banners ask the kids to go back to their seats and count how many fish they can see in the church)