In case you ever wondered, insanity + pillow fights = “We Three Kings.” At least, it did during the Bible Club/Christmas Party I got to help teach last week. After the screaming had died down and the pillows had stopped flying, but before club officially began, several of the kids and I gathered on the stairs and sang songs like “Country roads, take me home,” and “You belong with me,” and ending with “Twelve Days of Christmas,” and “We Three Kings.” About fifteen minutes later, I was teaching them the story of the Three Kings. When I asked for volunteers to act out the story, they all raised their hands and jumped up and down. I picked three–who, to their chagrin, were assigned to act as camels.
At the end of the Bible story, Andy, a three-year-old boy who had been jumping up and down, acting in the Wise Men Skit as a camel leader, and occasionally answering the questions I asked the kids, connected the dots! The Wise Men’s gift of myrrh*DOT*Jesus’ death*DOT*our sins*PERIOD. Really?! Is it that simple? Jesus, God’s Son, lived and died and came alive again to take away our sins so we can know God and go to heaven? All we have to do is ask Him to do that for us? Cool, I want to! was something along the lines of his reasoning. And just like that, I gained a spiritual new little brother who is gungho about getting to know Jesus better!
