Submitted by Mark Prins on Tue, 09/03/2010 - 7:46pm
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Your challenge: to read a story about Jesus each week during Lent
and chat about it at home and on-line with your Cityside friends
Challenge 1 Challenge 2 Challenge 3 Challenge 4 Challenge 5 Challenge 6 Challenge 7
‘The Friend of little children’
The story of Jesus and the children, from Matthew 18, 19, Mark 10, and Luke 18
p256 The Jesus Storybook Bible
What do you think would be good to remember from this story?
Elsie: God loves you no
Elsie: God loves you no mater if your not important or speshel.
Rose: good idea!
Rose: good idea!
Zoe: you don't have to do
Zoe: you don't have to do something nice to make Jesus
love you.
Emily I learnt that you dont
Emily
I learnt that you dont have to do anything to make Jesus love
you.
Sophie: Jesus helped the
Sophie: Jesus helped the children stop crying.
Nico: I liked the part when
Nico: I liked the part when Jesus said to the children 'come back'
Rose: I think a good thing to
Rose: I think a good thing to remember would be to not push other people away even if they are very unimportant.
Jessica: No matter how
Jessica: No matter how headachy and sick you are... I'd love it if Jesus just came into this room and gave me a kiss and healed me and make me happier, and forgive me for my sins. I'd love it. I'd just love it.
Brian: It doesn't matter
Brian: It doesn't matter whatever time you are there, Jesus will always have time to be with you. And you will always not forget about Jesus.
Maja: No matter how nice,
Maja: No matter how nice, cool, rich, poor, clever, exciting or boring you are, God still loves you. If you remembered this it'd help you to be kind to other people
Alice: My favourite part was
Alice: My favourite part was when the children ran up to Jesus and I didn't like it when the helpers let the children not come to Jesus. I like Jesus as well.
Jed: I have a heart, inside my pyjamas. I didn't like when the helpers kept the children away from Jesus. But my favourite bit was not seeing a scary dinosaur.
Elsie: I'm so glad there
Elsie: I'm so glad there aren't any scary dinosaurs in the story too, Jed!
Fern: I think it's a good
Fern: I think it's a good idea for Jesus to love adults and children, not just adults and not just children.
Luca: it is good to remember,
Luca: it is good to remember, that everybody is the same important in God's kingdom.
Eden: that the children love
Eden: that the children love God and that Jesus loves everyone in the whole world.
David: when jesus said"let
David: when jesus said"let the little children come to me
Michelle B: I like the part
Michelle B: I like the part when people brought their children to Jesus.