Children's Lesson: Jesus the Vine

Story

Say: Show children the plant (already in the Jams room).  Ask them, what will happen to one of these leaves if I pull it off from the plant? (It will die).  In today’s story, Jesus will compares his followers to the leaves on this plant.  Are you ready?

Read “Jesus the Vine.” in any children's story Bible.

Lesson

Say:  Who is the vine? (Jesus)  Who are the branches? (We are; Jesus’ followers) What did Jesus say was important? (To stay connected to him, to love eachother).

Just like a branch needs to be connected to the vine, we need to be connected to Jesus. We can do this by reading the Bible and coming to church. We can also learn that just as a branch should give us grapes, we should be doing good things. Those good things by themselves don’t make us okay with God, but when we are spending time with Jesus we should want to good things. How about you? What good things can you do today? (allow for some answers). 

Big Idea

Just like a branch needs to be connected to the vine, we need to be connected to Jesus.

Memory Verse

Jesus said, “stay connected to me and my love” – John 15:5a

Prayer

Take time to see if children have any prayer requests or prayer joys.  Say a short prayer thanking God for sending Jesus to save us and asking him to help us stay connected to him.  

Craft

Students will use templates to create a grapevine (find the template here:http://www.newchurchvineyard.org/neighbor/i-am-the-vine/activities/Sunday-School-Lesson-1.12_Parable-Of-The-Vine.pdf)