Teaching about Jesus

As Christmas comes nearer the parties will start. I am always surprised when so many of the parties center around the food and the games and the presents and so few say anything about Jesus. Even at a Christian school Jesus seems to be a little bit forgotten.

Little children need to be reminded that the wonderful reason we have this holiday is not to eat more sweets or to open more presents. The reason we have this holiday is to remember God sent us Jesus. That God loves us so much that he sent his son Jesus to make us know God even better and show us God’s love.

Little children have had only one or two Christmases that they can remember. Every Christmas gathering and Christmas party should remind them of God’s love for us through the gift of Jesus. As adults we can recite the reason for Christmas, but for little children it is new, new every year.

As you celebrate Christmas add to your shopping list a beautiful story book of the first Christmas. Read it at night by the glow of the Christmas tree lights. Show your children in the “big bible” where the story of Christmas was first told. (Luke chapter 2). As you sing Christmas carols explain what the words mean and how they are meant to teach us the joy and love of God’s gift to us. Make the joyful story of Jesus birth an important part of your family’s Christmas for the little people and the big people.

Merry Christmas.