So being in a transitional church building right now, we had not been doing Sunday School, but Pastor decided to do a kinda whole group setting of all the kids going out for about 30 minutes before the preaching and last week was the first week.
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We were doing a lesson on Bible reading and I came up with an object lesson that I wanted to share with you all. Soooooooooooo this is the lesson...
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I said I had gotten a letter from my boyfriend, which because it's ME, the kids went WILD...lol...and then at that moment Pastor walked in to tell the kids something before we really got started and this made the kids even MORE wild...PASTOR!!! Mary got a looooove letter from her boyfriend!!!! (I love the fact that my pastor doesn't even question if this is real or not...he just tells the kids what he wanted to say, then says, be good and FIND OUT who Mary's boyfriends is!!! Which just amped the kids up EVEN MORE to find out WHO the love letter is from!!!
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Sooooooooooooo Im just egging the kids on...I'm like Oh it even smells like him...they're like, OPEN IT!!! READ IT to us!!! I'm liiiiiiiiike ACTUQLLY you know what...I don't need to read what's inside, it's a love letter from him and thats enough...just having it is all I really need!!! They're like, NOOOOOO you have to know what he says to you!!! I'm like naw, I just don't feel like it!
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I'm like, I feel like teaching you all the lesson we have today for class instead! After a few boos and aw come on Sister Mary, read his letter!!! I get started on the lesson about reading the Bible, the older kids are given scriptures to read etc...we sing the song Read your Bible and pray everyday and you will grow, grow, grow!
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Then I'm like, hey you guys, I've been thinking about it and maybe I SHOULD open the letter from my boyfriend and ACTUALLY read it!!! The kids are like, YES!!! Read it! Read it! Read it! etc...
Sooooooo I begin to read...
To my dearest Mar Bear,
You are the most beautiful person in the whole world. Etc...Your also the best cook in the world, you even cook better than my mom! Etc...
Love your boyfriend
P.s. Will you marry me?!
That's the highlights of it and the kids were roaring with hysterics and oooohs etc...
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Then I told the kids that my not reading the letter and just being happy with having a letter from my boyfriend, but never opening it and reading it, is the same thing as us just being happy to have a Bible. Just satisfied to carry it around with us but never actually opening it and reading what God has to say to us. We can't just smell the leather on our Bible and look at the pretty design to get what God has for us.
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*If you do this lesson, The older kids seemed to really get it, the younger kids, like the five-year olds...didn't fully comprehend the connection between the two things! They seemed kinda stuck on you should read your Bible ANNNNND Sister Mary haaaaaaas a boyfriend, OOOOOOOO! LOL
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So I would stick to 7 and up if your classes are more divided. Otherwise you may have the little kids running around asking people what the name of Sister Mary's boyfriend is AND my nephew DID basically make a proposal for me! "you need a good wife so you should just marry my aunt Mary! She'd be a really good wife!" (I only know about this because apparently MJ intervened...kinda makes you wonder what is said that you NEVER ACTUALLY HEAR!!!;0)
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Also, if your not single you could say you got a love letter from your spouse or a friend or other family member or THE PRESIDENT...buuuuuuut it probably won't be as funny .... buuuut still the same point!!! If you all do it feel free to tell me how it goes maryfranceswriting@gmail.com
