None of us can have a pure heart just by being a nice or a good person. This is our human nature, our inclination toward sinning. Our hearts are naturally drawn away from the things of God. Every kids church ministry deserves the very best resources for teaching God’s Word, even when they don’t have the financial resources.Įvery week, thousands of churches use our Bible lessons, craft ideas, printable resources, and coloring pages to teach kids the Christian faith.If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. We believe that children and parents benefit from a strong Christian education program in the church. Our website has teaching material for children of all aged – starting with the church nursery (age 0-1 years old), toddlers (age 2-3 years old), preschool (age 4-5 years old), young elementary (age 6-8 years old), older elementary (age 9-10 years old), and preteen youth ministry groups (age 11-12 years old). It is HIS divine will that young people come to faith in Jesus Christ and find salvation through the Gospel and the work of the Holy Spirit to bring them to faith. We believe that God is the loving Father of all kids. helps you tell kids about Jesus by providing age-appropriate Bible study material and Sunday School curriculum – all 100% free online. You can also find this lesson for Kindle or in print in my book, Jesus Teaches on the Mountain. Help us to get rid of everything in our hearts that doesn’t please You. Jesus, we pray that You’ll help us to have pure hearts. Remind students that God wants our heart to be pure, filled only with love for God and other people. The first one who does gets to choose the next item. This time, name your category and have students race to bring you something that matches your description. Remind students that we want our hearts to be pure, so we need to replace our negative emotions with love. Once they know the answer, give them a smiley face showing love to replace their negative emotion. They then have to ask each yes or no questions to figure out which emotion they have. Tape one of the negative emotion smiley faces on each of the kids’ foreheads without letting them see what it was. The negative emotions could include sad, worried, afraid, angry, guilty, or embarrassed. Game: Purify Our Heartĭraw or print out smiley faces with different negative emotions on them. We will go to Heaven and see God if we keep our hearts pure and full of love for God and other people. What does Jesus say will happen if we have pure hearts and have only love in our hearts? If we have those feelings in our heart, we should ask God to fill up our heart with love again so that we can get rid of those bad feelings. Sometimes, we might have hate in our heart. Sometimes, our heart might not be pure, though. He wants us to love Him and to love other people and to not have anything else in our hearts except love. What do you think God wants that one thing in our heart to be? (Love.) Our hearts are pure if there’s only one thing in our hearts. The water is pure if there’s only one thing in the water. To be pure in heart means that there is only one thing in our heart. What do you think it means for us to be pure in heart? “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” The clean water is pure because there’s nothing else in the water. The dirty water isn’t pure because there’s dirt mixed in with the water. It can’t have anything else mixed in with it. What do you think that word “pure” means?įor something to be pure, it has to be clean, and it has to be made up of one thing. Which bottle do you think has the water that is purer? One is clean the other has a bunch of dirt in it.īring the two bottles out and ask, If I were going to give you a drink, which bottle would you want to drink from?… Why?… What would be so bad about drinking from the dirty one? Prepare two bottles or glasses of water beforehand. Have the next student pick their item, but tell them that their item has to match one of the criteria. When a student guesses your item, explain why you choose it (based on one of the criteria above). In this game of Eye Spy, you’ll only choose items that are only one color, only one shape, or made out of only one material. Needed: Bibles, a glass or bottle of dirty water, a glass or bottle of clean water, pieces of paper with different emotions represented on them, tape Intro Game: Finding Purity Use this children’s Sunday School lesson on the sixth Beatitude to teach kids to have only love in their hearts.
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