Wineskin parable
One team is It and tries to tag the members of the other team. Game: Power Up Freeze Tagĭivide the students into two teams. I want you to think for a second to yourself and ask Jesus if there’s anything in your life He wants you to change… Ask Him if you’re doing anything bad that He wants you to stop doing… Ask Him if there’s anything good that He wants you to start doing. Prayer Exercise: Change My HeartĮveryone, close your eyes. If we want to learn everything Jesus wants to teach us, we have to be ready to change our lives. (Pull out the second large glass of water and pour it into the large empty glass.)
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Then, we will be able to learn all the great things Jesus wants to teach us. It means we have to believe in Jesus and give Him our lives. That means we have to stop doing the wrong things we do and start doing the right things. Jesus said we can’t learn everything He wants to teach us unless we change. What happened? Why did the water spill out? (Pour the large glass of water into the small cup and let it overflow.)
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(Now pull out one of the large glasses filled with water.)Īnd we’re going to pretend that this is all the great stuff Jesus wants to teach you. Pull out the small glass and say something like…) (Place tarps or towels around your demonstration area. Jesus also said that you can’t pour new wine into old wineskins. If we want to follow Jesus’ teaching, we have to become new ourselves. We can’t put Jesus’ new teaching on our old selves because it won’t work. He was saying that if we want to follow His teaching, we can’t be like that old piece of clothing.
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Instead, when you get a big enough hole in your shirt, you just need to get a new shirt.īut Jesus wasn’t really talking about clothes.
WINESKIN PARABLE PATCH
So, as Jesus said, you can’ t put a new patch on an old piece of clothing. The patch will shrink and pull away from the shirt, kind of like you were trying to pull the rope away from the ends in our game, so you’ll still have a hole, and maybe even a worse hole than you started with. But what happens if you get a hole in your shirt, and you sew a patch, that hasn’t already shrunk, onto the shirt?
WINESKIN PARABLE FREE
? 52-Week Sunday School Curriculum LOVE of God ? Free Lesson Valentine ? Biblical Love Coloring Pages Be an Influencer? Free LessonĬan you imagine what Jesus was talking about here? How many of you have ever had one of your shirts shrink in the dryer?ĭoes your shirt shrink again the next time it goes in the dryer? (No.)Īfter your shirt shrinks once, it won’t shrink again. (Illustrate the first part of the teaching with a piece of clothing with holes in it.) No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” If they do, the skins will burst the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. The goal of the team on either end is to keep the rope taught so that there’s no slack in the middle.Īfter the first round, switch which team is on the ends and which is in the middle and play again. The goal of the team in the middle is to pull the ends of the rope to the middle. The second team holds the middle of the rope. The first team divides their members in half, taking each side of the rope.
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Needed: Bibles, a rope, an old garment with a hole in it, three large glasses, one small glass, tarps or towels Intro Game: Pulled Apartĭivide students into two teams for a modified tug of war. Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids that we need to change if we want to follow Jesus’ teaching.