The Parable of the Wedding Feast Sunday School Lesson for Kids - Who's Invited?

The Parable of the Wedding Feast Sunday School Lesson for Kids -

Who’s Invited? 

Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids that God wants us to tell everyone about Him.

Needed: Bibles, drawing paper, crayons or colored pencils

Intro Game: Receiving the Invitation 

Choose one student to be It. Then, have It turn around and choose one of the other students to be the Hostile.

It then tries to tag all the other students, but if they tag the Hostile, they’re out. It wins when they tag everyone except the Hostile.

Lesson

Ask students, How many of you have ever been to a wedding?

Who usually gets invited to a wedding?

Usually, it’s the people who know the bride or the groom that get invited to the wedding. But what if everyone in the whole city got invited? What if everyone in the whole world got invited? That would be a pretty big wedding, wouldn’t it?

 

(Read Matthew 22:1-3.)

So, the king is having a wedding for his son, but no one wants to come to the wedding. Why do you think people wouldn’t want to come to the wedding?

 

(Read Matthew 22:4-6.)

What were the people doing instead of coming to the wedding? (They were working in their fields or their business.)

And some of them even killed the king’s servants! All the king wanted to was invite them to come to the wedding, and they killed the king’s servants. So, what do you think the king should do to them?

 

(Read Matthew 22:7-10.)

Now, who did the king invite to the wedding? (He invited everyone in the city, good people and bad people.)

That’s how it is with God. The wedding is a great, fun event, just like going to Heaven is going to be greater than anything we could ever think of. God, the King, wants us to invite everyone to go to Heaven, good people and bad people, but some people won’t want to go.

Maybe they don’t want to think about God because they want to think about other things instead, just like the people in the story wanted to go to work instead of going to the wedding. Some people will even be mean to us when we tell them about God and invite them to go to Heaven.

But God still wants us to invite everyone to go to Heaven because He wants everyone to come to be in Heaven with Him.

Now, does that mean that everyone will get to go to Heaven?

 

(Read Matthew 22:11-14.)

What happened to the man who wasn’t wearing wedding clothes? (The king threw him outside and didn’t let him come to the wedding.)

That’s how it is with God too. When you go to a wedding, you usually wear nice clothes, right? That’s what you do when you go to a wedding. Well, there are some things you have to do to go to Heaven.

 Can anyone tell me what you have to do to go to Heaven? (Believe in God and do the right things that God wants you to do.)

And if you don’t believe in God, and if you don’t do the right things that God wants you to do, then God won’t let you go to Heaven when you die. You’ll have to go to Hell instead.

So, remember, God wants us to invite everyone to go to Heaven, just like the king invited everyone to go to the wedding, but if we want to go to Heaven, we have to believe in God and do the right things that He wants us to do.

Craft: What Will It Be Like?  

Give students drawing supplies and have them draw a picture of themselves going to Heaven. When they’re finished, have them share their pictures and ask them what they think Heaven will be like.

Game: Receiving the Invitation 

Play the intro game again, but call It the Servant. Then, remind students that the servants in the story went out to invite people to the wedding, but some of the people attacked and killed them. We have to invite other people to go to Heaven, too, but some people will be mean to us when we try to invite them.

Closing Prayer

Father, we thank You for inviting everyone to go to Heaven to be with You. Help us to believe in You and to do what You want us to so that we can be with You. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.