Follow-up: Jesus is a Friend

Story: Jesus trains his disciples

Fundamental Truth: We Can Talk with God

Making it Real:
What can we learn from Jesus and His friends and how He taught His friends?
Jesus chose men to live and work and travel with Him. Those men were with Him always. They saw Him when He was happy and strong and excited, but also when He was sad and tired and upset. Jesus showed them how they can turn to God the Father in times of joy and sadness, confidence and confusion. And because we have it all in the Bible, Jesus showed us those same things. Jesus showed us how to pray. He showed us that we can talk with God. Jesus showed us how to trust God even when things are hard. Jesus showed us how to love God and follow Him no matter what.

Making it Stick:
Using dominoes, blocks, or some other toys that can stack, stack the materials far enough apart so that they aren’t touching but close enough so that when one falls, it will cause a chain reaction so that each hits the next until they all fall. Set up the chain reaction and while you are doing so, explain that Jesus came, taught men and instructed them to teach others. Those men taught others and instructed them to teach others, on and on so that everyone who heard the Good News of Jesus was told to tell others, a command that we have today, too. Let your child knock down the first in the line of dominoes and watch as the rest fall down. Explain that the power of that one domino falling down spread to all the other dominoes and affected them too. That is true of God’s power. The truth of Jesus reaches to one man, and another and another until many, many people have heard and are saved.