Children’s Sermon - Without Love

Children’s Talk - Without Love

What would life be like without love?

What is something you love? Can you imagine what that thing would be like if you didn’t love it? It would still be there, but you wouldn’t enjoy it or encounter it in the same way.

Love is more than just a feeling, it is an action, an experience, a life - it is the thing that binds us to everything in meaningful ways.

Love gives substance, life, and worth to everything.

Can you imagine a beach without water? What would it be?

Can you imagine a plant that doesn’t get enough water? What would happen?

Can you imagine our lives if we didn’t get enough food?

These are all ways of understanding how much we need to experience and share love.

Love isn’t always easy. Loving someone mean to you can hurt. Loving someone who isn’t sharing can be a struggle. Loving when you don’t feel like you have enough can be a sacrifice.

Who here likes balloons?

What is fun about balloons?

Yet, did you know that blowing air in a balloon makes it stretch? The balloon becoming bigger is awesome, but it means that the balloon has to change. You can see this as its colour becomes brighter - even the colour is becoming stretched. Watch. (Get someone’s help to blow up the balloon). Oftentimes love wants to fill us and make us more, but that also means that we need to change, be stretched, and grow. That isn’t easy, but life is far better and far greater with love.

So, let’s try to live out this love so that it can live in us and fill our whole lives.