“You can enter true life only through the narrow gate. The gate to hell is very wide, and there is plenty of room on the road that leads there. Many people go that way. But the gate that opens the way to true life is narrow. And the road that leads there is hard to follow. Only a few people find it. Matthew 7:13-4 In our journey through the sermon on the mount, we have reached this passage which is quite a tough one! To warm up we're going to play two games: 1) Limbo dancing - the child who manages to do the lowest limbo move is the prize winner. 2) Marbles - Children have the choice to roll their marble through a wide gap (easy) or a narrow gap (hard). After all the children have had a go, give a prize to anyone who managed to get their marble through the narrow gap, to emphasise the fact that the people who met the toughest challenge were the ones who won the prizes in the end. Our children tend to respond quite well to visual teachin...
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