Sunday School Lesson on Humility for Kids -
Jesus and John Both Baptizing: He Must Become
Greater
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson about John the Baptist to teach kids about having humility toward Jesus.
Needed: Bibles, a trophy or prize you have won (bring a trophy or prize to show even if it isn’t something you’ve won), drawing paper and crayons or colored pencils
Intro Game: Disciple Tag
Choose one student to be It. When they tag someone, that person links hands with them and joins their team. They continue adding people to their team, linking hands with each one until all but one student is part of their chain. That remaining student becomes It for the next round.
Play two or three rounds and then, explain
that when we tell people about Jesus, we want them to believe in Jesus too. If
they do, they become a Christian and join our team. Then, they help us tell
more people about Jesus.
Lesson
Ask students, How many of you want to be famous when you grow up?
How many of you want to be famous now? Maybe
you want to be really popular in your school and have everyone like you.
Why do you think we want to be famous?
(Show your trophy or prize.) What about
winning trophies or ribbons or things like that? Have any of you ever won a
trophy or gotten first place in a competition for something you did?
Why do people like to get trophies and win at
things?
Well, in the Bible, there was a man who said
he didn’t want to be popular anymore and he didn’t want to win. His name was
John the Baptist, and he was Jesus’ older
cousin. John the Baptist was very famous in Israel because he was such a great
preacher. But let’s read what happened when Jesus started preaching too.
(Read John
3:22-24.)
So, John was preaching and baptizing in one
place, but then, Jesus started preaching and baptizing somewhere else.
(Read John
3:25-26.)
John and Jesus were both preaching and
baptizing people, but who were most of the people going to, John or Jesus?
(Jesus.)
Most people were going to listen to Jesus. How
do you think it made John feel when he heard that most people were going to
listen to Jesus instead of coming to listen to him?
(Read John
3:27-30.)
John said that he was glad most people were
going to see Jesus instead of him because John knew that since Jesus was the Savior, or the Messiah, Jesus was more important
than he was.
He didn’t want to be the most popular anymore
because he wanted Jesus to be the most popular. He didn’t want to win
everyone’s attention or have everyone listen to him or baptize the most people. He wanted Jesus to win.
And that’s what we should be like in our life
too. We shouldn’t worry about how popular we are or how many people like us. We
should simply be trying to get people to like Jesus.
And we shouldn’t worry about winning all the
time because life isn’t about us and how great we are or how many things we
win. Life is about Jesus and how great He is. Jesus is part of God, and He died for us so that we can be forgiven
for our sins and go to Heaven when we die instead of going to Hell. Our life is
about Jesus because of everything He’s done for us.
Game: Shoe Swap
Remind students that earlier, John the Baptist said that he wasn’t worthy to even untie Jesus’ sandal.
Students and leader sit in a circle and take
their shoes off, leaving them in front of their chair. The leader then calls
out a description for more than one pair of shoes. Whoever is sitting in a
chair with a pair of shoes matching that description has to get up and move to
another chair.
Anytime someone sits in the chair with the
leader’s shoes in front of them, they
have to say, “I’m not worthy!” and then, call out the next description.
Description ideas include: colors, laces, open-toed, tennis shoes, dress shoes,
Velcro, etc.
Explain that we’re not worthy to serve Jesus,
but He still lets us serve Him because He loves us.
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