[This is a summary of the children's sermon conversation. It was preached by Pastor Daranne Harris for me.]
In Acts, Jesus leaves the disciples. They are alone, and so they go to an upper room where they are staying, and they spend time praying together.
What is praying?
- Communicating with God
- Letting God communicate with us
What are ways that people communicate?
- Talking, sign language, singing, laughing, crying
- Non-verbal--faces, hugs, dancing, writing and reading, drawing
What are ways people and God can communicate?
- All the ways people communicate are ways God and us communicate
- That's called prayer!
In Acts, the disciples prayed together. How can we pray together?
- Aloud together (using our own words, or the Lord's Prayer)
- Silently together (listening, reading prayers)
- Being still together (sitting, kneeling, standing, holding hands)
- Moving together (dancing, waving arms, rocking)
(Do we have to be together to pray together?
- No! We can pray any time and any where, and God gathers us together.
- God makes us one, just like Jesus said.
- Of course, you can always call up anybody from church, especially me, and ask to pray together, and we always will.)
Why do we pray together?
- The disciples prayed together because they felt lonely after Jesus left.
- We pray together to feel God with us.
- We pray together so others feel God with them.
God gave us lots of different ways to pray together so that we will never feel lonely, and so hat we will feel that God is always with us!
Thanks be to God for prayer! Amen!
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