Children Under Jesus

Ballard Campus 5-15-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll

Tags: Parenting, Children, Daddy

Luke 18:15-17

Children Under Jesus

Sheparding a Child's Heat by Tripp

Jesus Storybook Bible

Long Story Short - 10 min devotionals

Billy Graham comes to the Marriott Hotel and PM gets to meet him...and ruin his quiet breakfast

Jesus here is like Santa Claus at the Mall

Roman treatment of Children

Abortion

Abandonment

Exposure for baby Girls who were not seen as valuable as sons

These babies would be picked up as sex slaves or gladiators

Rome was just like US today - 1.5 million will be aborted

30-60% depending on community go to sleep without a father

every 10 seconds there is a report of Child abuse

Jesus' take on Kids

He bestows particular dignity on kids

He was a little boy himself after all

Kids can relate to Jesus because he was a kid

Jesus as a single man who is not a father and he likes kids and kids like him

Single men are the least likely demographic to hang out with kids

It is a masculine manly thing to enjoy little kids and to love and serve them

Gideon says they liked him and they wanted to be with him because he was Fun

One of Jesus' divine attributes is being FUN

Alexie I think they liked him because he was fun and wanted to be taught by him

Gideon said that the adults didn't think that Jesus should "waste" time on kids

Lie: spending quality time is more important that quantity of time.

You never know when the quality time will surface, so you need to be ready by spending a lot of time with the kids

Alexie said that the adults thoughts the children would be disruptive

Zack said that the adults didn't think that the kids were as important as the adults

Loving women well and loving and serving children in a noble way is the cause I must be about

Children at Mars Hill

The Parents are responsible before God to raise and train their kids in the fear of the lord

Institutions cannot replace the involvement of the parents

Community Groups are set up with families all together so that Mars is driven not by programming by rather as a family

Chrissie C. is Mars HIll's awesome teacher who will be writting and publishing Mars' Kid's Bible and content

There will be a series of age appropriate video lessons

We get to teach kids and we can learn from them

Entering the kingdom as a Child of God:

Kids implicitly believe they're dad's words

Kids approach their father for anything

Kids rely on their father for provision and protection

Kids live in their father's kingdom

Kids carry the name of their dad

Kids are objects of thefather's love

Kids are a glorious inconvenience

I tend to not see myself as a little kids who needs his dad to take care of him