This morning at Kids Church, we had a look at what it means to be hot or cold for Jesus, and what it means to be luke-warm. The scripture we looked at was in Revelation 3:15-16.
"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
The kids thought it was pretty strange that God would spit us out of His mouth! But kids LOVE the gross stuff, so we made a huge mess getting to our point.
We used this scripture to illustrate that you must be one thing or another, because if you are both things, you are less likely to fulfil your purpose.
We used this scripture to illustrate that you must be one thing or another, because if you are both things, you are less likely to fulfil your purpose.
So, we got hands on, using the cornflour demonstration, we spoke about how tricky it was for the cornflour to be both a liquid and a solid. We first tried to play a ball game with the cornflour and decided that it was unsuccessful as a solid because it turned to liquid as soon as we let go of the ball. So we then thought we would use it to paint, but unfortunately it didn't work well at that either because it was too solid.
This was important for the kids to see and feel how useless it is to be two opposites. We can be christians at church and then be really mean and unkind at school. We can say we are followers of Jesus, but act opposite. And when we are like this, it makes God feel sick. It disagrees with Him. It upsets him.
Think of the grossest thing possible. Think of something that would make you want to throw up. Maybe it is someone drinking from the toilet. Pretty gross. Well that's how God feels when we say we are one thing, but act another way. Or when we act like great christians when worshipping him but are pretty blaise about God in our everyday lives.
We also used the blender to further make the point. Some things are nicer when they are just one thing. Lemonade is nice as lemonade. Nutella is nice as nutella. Marshmallows are nice as marshmallows and carrots are yum as carrots. But when we mix these things up in the blender, they are not so nice and may even want to make us throw up/puke/hurl. That's what us being only a Sunday christian is like to God. Bleh!
God doesn't want us to just be Sunday Christians, He wants us to be everyday Christians or not Christians at all!
