THE GOOD SHEPHERD

THE GOOD SHEPHERD

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The Good Shepherd

Props: Pictures of various animals.

Scripture: John 10:11 – I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep

Good morning everyone. Today I want to show you pictures of different kinds of animals, and when I show the picture, I want you to make the noise the animal makes.

Cow – Moooo

Duck – Quack, quack

Pig – Oink, oink

Chicken – Buck, buck, buck

Owl – Whoooo, whooo

Sheep – Baaaa, Baaaa

Who can tell me which of these animals the shepherd takes care of?

Sheep!

Correct. Once there was a shepherd who had 100 sheep. He loved all his sheep. Every day, several times a day, he would count all of his sheep. Can anyone count to one hundred?

Hands are raised.

One day when he counted there were only 99. What happened to that one sheep? I’ll tell you. The one sheep wasn’t paying attention, wandered off over the hill, and got lost. Has anyone here ever been lost? When I was little I got lost in a big store. I wasn’t paying attention to where my mommy was standing and wandered down another aisle. Before I knew it, I was alone and didn’t know where my mommy was. I started to cry. But then my mommy must have heard me because she found me and picked me up and hugged me until I stopped crying.

The good shepherd loved that sheep so much that he went over the hill to find it before anything bad happened. He listened carefully and heard the sheep crying: Baaaaa. Baaaaaa. Just as he got to the sheep a wolf came up over the hill. The shepherd took his staff, a long stick, and chased the wolf away. He picked up the sheep and carried it back to the other 99 sheep.

That shepherd must have loved that sheep a lot, don’t you think? There is a person in the Bible known as the Good Shepherd. Does anyone know who the Good Shepherd is?

Jesus!

That’s right. Jesus. We call Jesus the Good Shepherd because he loves us and doesn’t want us to get lost. If we do wander off in the wrong direction, Jesus always tries to bring us back and protects us from those things that can hurt us.

Let us pray: Dear Lord Jesus, watch over us and help us to follow you. If we do wander off in the wrong direction, come find us and bring us back to the fold. Amen.