The Gap

Okay, before you start thinking about the clothing store, I'd like to share something with you on a completely different spectrum. I am a children's minister at a church in southwest Ohio, and I have a special way that I talk to the kids about communion each week. I thought I would share it with you.

When we do wrong things...aka: things we know we should not do...or even simpler, anything that the Bible does not okay...we sin. When we sin, that puts a HUGE gap between us and God. And we may try to get across that gap by doing good works, being kind to people, or following all the "right" traditions. But the thing is, we cannot get across this gap on our own. No matter how much we try, we will always fail. The only way to get across this gap is to accept the fact that we cannot get across it on our own and realize that only Jesus Christ is able to close up that gap because He died for our sins. Here's the deal, Jesus doesn't automatically close up that gap. We have to ask Him to close up that gap for us. Once we believe, accept, and understand this, the gap is closed and we are reunited with God.

I know that is a severely simplified version of everything, but once again, I talk to young kids each Sunday! If you would like to talk about it in more grown up terms and on a deeper level, you can e-mail me at heater518@yahoo.com.