I taught Children’s Church this past Sunday.  Several moms take turns teaching our kids and I usually teach every four weeks or so. Our topic lately has been forgiveness and Grace.

Two of the exercises in our lesson plan worked so well at illustrating Christ’s grace that I wanted to share them with everyone.

First we shared verse :

 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9 

We then talked about sin, and how Jesus’ grace wipes our sin clean.

I had each child write a sin that they may struggle with on a coffee filter with a yellow highlighter.  We kept things private and some kids just wrote down a letter to represent what they were thinking instead of words.   I then squirted lemon juice over the words/letters and the writing disappeared immediately.  The color slid right off the filter.

Fun, simple and very clear for the kids to understand.

After this experiment we got in a circle and crossed our arms, then joined hands with other kids who were not right beside us.  Once we were all tangled up I gave out instructions like :   Touch your nose (not letting go of the hands!), jump up and down on one foot, turn in a circle, etc.  These actions were possible, but difficult because of the confusion of all the kids so close and connected.  This shows how sin can complicate our lives and make things difficult.  When confess our sins, our sins are gone and life is not so “tangled up”.

These two very simple lessons made God’s Grace much more clear for all of the kids, and helped me as a mom simplify a message that sometimes we tend to complicate.

What are some ways you teach your kiddos about God’s Grace?

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