Beatitudes Sunday School Lesson for Kids –
Blessed are the Pure in Heart
Use this
children’s Sunday School lesson on the sixth Beatitude to teach kids to have
only love in their hearts.
Needed: Bibles, a glass
or bottle of dirty water, a glass or bottle of clean water, pieces of paper
with different emotions represented on them, tape
Intro Game: Finding Purity
In this game of Eye Spy, you’ll only choose items that are only one color, only one shape, or made out of only one material.
You’ll choose the first item. When a student guesses your item, explain
why you choose it (based on one of the criteria above). Have the next student
pick their item, but tell them that their item has to match one of the
criteria.
Lesson
Prepare two bottles or glasses of water beforehand. One is clean; the other has a bunch of dirt in it.
Bring the two bottles out and ask, If I were going to give you a drink,
which bottle would you want to drink from?... Why?... What would be so bad
about drinking from the dirty one?
Which bottle do you think has the water that is purer?
What do you think that word “pure” means?
For something to be pure, it has to be clean, and it has to be made up of one thing. It can’t have anything else
mixed in with it. The dirty water isn’t pure because there’s dirt mixed in with
the water. The clean water is pure because there’s nothing else in the water.
It’s water only.
(Read Matthew 5:8.)
What do you think it means for us to be pure in heart?
To be pure in heart means that there is only one thing in our heart.
The water is pure if there’s only one thing in the water. Our hearts are pure
if there’s only one thing in our hearts.
What do you think God wants that one thing in our heart to be? (Love.)
God wants our hearts to be full of love. He wants us to love Him and to
love other people and to not have
anything else in our hearts except love.
Sometimes, our heart might not be pure, though. Sometimes, we might
have hate in our heart. Or anger. Or we might want to do bad things. If we have
those feelings in our heart, we should ask God to fill up our heart with love
again so that we can get rid of those bad feelings.
What does Jesus say will happen if we have pure hearts and have only
love in our hearts?
We will see God. We will go to Heaven and see God if we keep our hearts
pure and full of love for God and other people.
Game: Purify Our Heart
Draw or print out smiley faces with different negative emotions on them. The negative emotions could include sad, worried, afraid, angry, guilty, or embarrassed.
Tape one of the negative emotion smiley faces on each of the kids’
foreheads without letting them see what it was. They then have to ask each yes
or no questions to figure out which emotion they have. Once they know the
answer, give them a smiley face showing love to replace their negative emotion.
Remind students that we want our hearts to be pure, so we need to
replace our negative emotions with love.
Game: Finding Purity part 2
This time, name your category and have students race to bring you something that matches your description. The first one who does gets to choose the next item.
Remind students that God wants our heart to be pure, filled only with
love for God and other people.
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