How can I go about explaining the Parable of the wineskins to a group of children ages 6-10?
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Teaching Parable of Wineskins?
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I will be reading the scripture from Matthew 9:14-17, Mark 2:18-22, and Luke 5:33-38. This is what I've come up with so far in teaching the parable of the wineskins to the Children. If anyone has any ideas to add please let me know. Also if you think I'm on the wrong track teaching this to the Children, I welcome your input. Please pray for me as I deliver this to the Children....
The Pharisees were religious people that thought they were better than anyone else. They made up all kinds of laws and put on a big show for people to see their form of worship so they would look good to everyone else. But God knew their heart and knew that they were just putting on a show and not sincerely worshiping him.
When Jesus came He taught about a new Christianity, and what Jesus was teaching didn't mix with the old ways the Pharisees were doing.
When a patch is put on a tear, it is a new piece of cloth sewn on an old piece of cloth. When it got wet it would shrink and make the tear in the old clothing bigger. See the new and the old just didn't go together.
When the new wine was put into the old wineskins it would ferment and expand. The old wineskins would be dried and cracked and when the new wine would start working it would be explosive and would tear the new wine skins and spill all over the ground.
It's like taking a bath. If you sit in the bath too long your skin starts to wrinkle. That's kind of how the wine worked. It changed after sitting a while.
Then when you get out of the bath if there were two laundry baskets, one with dirty laundry and the other with clean laundry, which would you put on your clean body? You don't want to put dirty clothes on your clean body.
Or, it's kind of like a paper bag that gets soaked and then dries a little bit. When you try to put stuff in it what happens? The bag tears and the stuff breaks through and falls out.
The Jews were trying to mix old Jewish traditions with the new Christianity that Jesus was bringing and it just didn't work. Old and new just don't work together. They are opposites.
When you become a Christian, Jesus places the Holy Spirit in you. That makes you a new person. Then you quit your old ways of doing things. You change your ways to be more like Jesus. Sometimes that means changing the friends you hang out with; changing the T.V. shows you watch; changing the not so nice words you use; changing the way you disobey your parents and teachers; changing the way you treat people.
The Pharisees were religious people that thought they were better than anyone else. They made up all kinds of laws and put on a big show for people to see their form of worship so they would look good to everyone else. But God knew their heart and knew that they were just putting on a show and not sincerely worshiping him.
When Jesus came He taught about a new Christianity, and what Jesus was teaching didn't mix with the old ways the Pharisees were doing.
When a patch is put on a tear, it is a new piece of cloth sewn on an old piece of cloth. When it got wet it would shrink and make the tear in the old clothing bigger. See the new and the old just didn't go together.
When the new wine was put into the old wineskins it would ferment and expand. The old wineskins would be dried and cracked and when the new wine would start working it would be explosive and would tear the new wine skins and spill all over the ground.
It's like taking a bath. If you sit in the bath too long your skin starts to wrinkle. That's kind of how the wine worked. It changed after sitting a while.
Then when you get out of the bath if there were two laundry baskets, one with dirty laundry and the other with clean laundry, which would you put on your clean body? You don't want to put dirty clothes on your clean body.
Or, it's kind of like a paper bag that gets soaked and then dries a little bit. When you try to put stuff in it what happens? The bag tears and the stuff breaks through and falls out.
The Jews were trying to mix old Jewish traditions with the new Christianity that Jesus was bringing and it just didn't work. Old and new just don't work together. They are opposites.
When you become a Christian, Jesus places the Holy Spirit in you. That makes you a new person. Then you quit your old ways of doing things. You change your ways to be more like Jesus. Sometimes that means changing the friends you hang out with; changing the T.V. shows you watch; changing the not so nice words you use; changing the way you disobey your parents and teachers; changing the way you treat people.
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