When Bible Stories Teach the Wrong Lesson

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of teaching honesty to children through Bible stories and the misconceptions that can arise.

Tried teaching honesty last week using Ananias and Sapphira. They lied about money. Fell over dead. Kids terrified. Will I die if I lie? Probably not. But maybe don't lie. Great job me. Now they think lying causes instant death. Jacob age seven asks if lying about eating cookies will kill him. No. This was special situation. What makes it special? Holy Spirit was there? Holy Spirit is always there though right? Yes but different kind of there. Making no sense. Kids staring. Emma asks if her mom knows about this story. Maybe shouldn't tell her mom. Yeah maybe don't mention death part to parents. Moving on. Let's try different honesty story. Jacob lied to Isaac pretending be Esau. Got blessing. Kids so lying worked? Well got blessing but then had run away hide for years. Jacob says his dad told him lying always wrong no exceptions. Your dad right. Stick with that. But Bible Jacob lied and became Israel and that's good right? This lesson falling apart. Abandon ship. Jesus fed five thousand. Little boy shared lunch. Kids if I share my lunch does Jesus make more? Not exactly. Then why share? I like my lunch. Emma says she shared cookies once and kid threw them away. Sharing felt bad…

People in this episode

Host: KidsMinistry.Blog

Topics covered

• Bible stories
• honesty
• teaching children
• Christian education
• sharing
• moral lessons

Keywords

• Bible stories
• honesty
• children
• teaching
• Christianity
• sharing
• moral lessons

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