Be a Candle for Christ

Come To Jesus and Be a Candle for Jesus
A Sermon for Children


Once upon a time there was boy and his name was Tom. There was a small church near to his home. Before going to school he will stand in front of the Church and pray to the Lord “Lord here is your son Tom”. Everyday he used to do this. One day he became sick and could not go to the school and he was lying in his bed. He was alone and he was tired and could not walk. But he experienced the presence of somebody and heard a gentle voice “Tom, here is your friend Jesus Christ”.

Dear Children....walk with Jesus....Jesus will walk with you.....
Walk with Christ is a way of life.....

1. Come to Jesus

Jesus Said, “ Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them...”(Mathew 19: 14)
Listen to Jesus
Respond to God’s call......Samuel.....
Find the purpose of life...the boy who shared his food with others......
Share God’s love with others....when you share it will enrich the life of others.....some where somebody benefited out of it...
Be a committed follower of Christ
Be with God and bring every child to Jesus - Towards a transformed community

Listen to a Person who responded to God’s Calling and brought others to Christ...
Robert Raikes, Gloucester, UK
The movement (1780) started with a school for boys in the slums. Raikes had been involved with those incarcerated at the county poor law (part of the jail at that time) and saw that vice would be better prevented than cured. He saw schooling as the best intervention. The best available time was Sunday as the boys were often working in the factories the other six days. The best available teachers were lay people. The textbook was the Bible, and the originally intended curriculum started with learning to read and then progressed to the catechism

The original schedule for the schools, as written by Raikes was "The children were to come after ten in the morning, and stay till twelve; they were then to go home and return at one; and after reading a lesson, they were to be conducted to Church. After Church, they were to be employed in repeating the catechism till after five, and then dismissed, with an injunction to go home without making a noise

By 1831, Sunday schools in Great Britain were teaching weekly 1,250,000 children, approximately 25 percent of the population. As these schools preceded the first state funding of schools for the general public, they are seen as the forerunners of the current English School System....



2. Be a Candle for Christ

Jesus said, “ I am the Light of the World. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life”(John 8:12)

Jesus said, “ You are the Light of the World.....No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lamp stand, and it gives light to all in the house”(Mathew 5: 14,15)

As moon shine from the light it received from Sun we should receive light from our Saviour and should give light to others

Jesus said, “ ...let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven”(Mathew 5: 16)

Lighted to Lighten

We cannot be a candle if we have darkness within ourselves............

Selfish
Arrogant
Dominant
Violent
Jealous
Self-Righteous


Find the dark areas of this world...........

Poverty
Violence
Inequality
Illiteracy
Addiction
Consumerism
Discriminations

A girl asked to the Candle.....
Candle ..candle....I am so sad....you are melting and in a few minutes you may die......

But Candle said to the sweet girl........

I am here to give myself.....but I could help many in my short span of life by giving light to them

I helped them to read...
I helped them to show their destination.....
I helped them to dispel darkness from their homes.....

By using that light they read Bible and Many Books
By using my light many could walk.......

Be a Candle for one day
Be a Candle for one week
Be a Candle for one month
Be a Candle for one year
Be a Candle for through out your life...

Can we be a candle for sometime....at least one person will walk in the light

Listen to a Person lighted to lighten...

William Carrey,
"Shoemaker by trade, but scholar, linguist and missionary by God's training,"

"EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD. ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS FOR GOD."
Born in England in 1761

It was in 1793 that Carey went to India. At first his wife was reluctant to go — so Carey set off to go nevertheless, but after two returns from the docks to persuade her again, Dorothy and his children accompanied him. They arrived with a Dr. Thomas at the mouth of the Hooghly in India in November, 1793.

There were years of discouragement (no Indian convert for seven years), debt, disease, deterioration of his wife's mind, death, but by the grace of God — and by the power of the Word — Carey continued and conquered for Christ!

When he died at 73 (1834), he had seen the Scriptures translated and printed into forty languages, he had been a college professor, and had founded a college at Serampore.

He had seen India open its doors to missionaries, he had seen the edict passed prohibiting sati (burning widows on the funeral pyres of their dead husbands), and he had seen converts for Christ.

On his deathbed Carey called out to a missionary friend, "Dr. Duff! You have been speaking about Dr. Carey; when I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey — speak about Dr. Carey's God." That charge was symbolic of Carey, considered by many to be a "unique figure, towering above both contemporaries and successors" in the ministry of missions.