What a Friend

Junior Level

Intro:

Our Sunday school topic for today focuses on friendship. We are talking about how important our friends are to us, and our mother and father. Then we realize that Jesus is our friend too. Remember the song - "What a Friend we Have in Jesus!"

 

Handout: What a Friend


outline:

  1. Ask students if they have a best friend.
  2. Ask how you can tell if a person is a "real" friend.
  3. How do you feel when you are away from your friend for a few days?
  4. Is a mother or father a friend, or is that something different?
  5. In addition to your friend and mother and father, did you know you have another friend? Who might that be?
  6. His name is Jesus and you could have not better friend. If you don't have Him as your friend then I would urge you to make friends with Him. You won't be disappointed.
  7. Call on your friend Jesus, in prayer, and you will feel great comfort.
  8. Prayer
     

activity:


Bring a small cross to class. Ask how students would feel if their friend were on that cross.



discussion:


Friendship is a two-way street. We cannot expect
love from others if we in turn are not

willing to
love. Friendship means giving and sharing. It means
hurting together and laughing together. It is
companionship with the freedom of knowing that your
friend would not

do anything to purposely hurt you
and you would not do anything to purposely hurt your
friend.



prayer:





comments:

John 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.