Wednesday, October 25, 2006

All Hallows Eve Family Service Wednesday

The structure of the sermon is beginning to take form in my mind. I will start out by asking the kids to tell the congregation who they are dressed up as. Then I will talk about why people started wearing masks and costumes (keep away evil spirits, etc). Then I will move into the Lazarus story and talk about what happened to Lazarus. How Jesus felt. How he was sad. HOw we feel when people die and that we miss them.

A short discussion on life and death. Life is a gift from God. That's why Jesus could give life to Lazarus. Life after death another gift from Jesus. How do we know - our Easter story. I may connect it to the eucharist. Tell them that we tell this story every Sunday and ask them to listen closely.

End with we wear costumes today for fun because we don't have to be afraid of evil spirits.

Now, this may change between now and Sunday but I'm making public my thought process.

1 Comments:

At 8:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like the beginning especially explaining why we wear masks. That should be really good. And I like the end. How are you going to creatively weave the Lazarus story so that it relates to halloween. Maybe this is easy to do as I don't know the Lazarus story, so this may be a dumb question. But kids may wonder, "How did we go from Halloween masks to a guy named Lazarus?" A good segway would be important to the kids, and probably the adults, too, for their understanding of the lesson being taught.

Just my thoughts.
Tobin

 

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