One of the unique opportunities my day-job at my church has given me recently is the chance to adapt some of Stan’s messages into children’s lessons. Taking complex material on the names and titles for Yeshua is heady stuff and hard to get across to kids without a lot of thought about their developmental level.
It’s not as ritzy as, say, some Philadelphia jobs, but I enjoy the challenge. I decided to get across the general concept of why names and titles are important as the first order of business. To make it understandable to kids, I talked about them meeting a strange kid on the streets to introduces himself as Bobby, and acts like he knows all about them, but they don’t recognize him. Then Bobby says, “Oh, you know me as VikingsFan2000 on Facebook” and suddenly they know who that kid is. Why? Because of the name they know him by.
It’s quite a bit removed from Stan’s material, but I think an illustration like that can introduce kids to the concept of why names and titles are important in a way they can relate to.
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