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• Do you know what being
big headed means? (Discuss)
• cf: Eddie McGuire from Collingwood football team. There are those
who believe is big headed when in fact he has to suffer the tall poppy
syndrome (Explain)
• In fact, many are just jealous about what he has achieved.
As he says, you can take the Broadmeadows man out of Broadmeadows, but
you can't take the Broardy out of the man. In other words, we value our
roots where we came from.
• It is one thing to know you are good at something (eg. Sport,
school work etc). It is another to go around bragging about how good you
are.
• Being humble is about knowing you have done well, but not bragging
about it so it makes other people second rate.
• The cricket in this last week is such an example. Australian cricketer
Matthew Hayden who created history with a world record of 380 runs, betting
the old record of 375 runs.
• When he was interviewed, he didn't say how terrific he was. Rather
he said he was able to do that because of the great support in the Australian
team. He was humble.
• In today's story James and John wanted to sit in the best seats
especially next to Jesus
• But Jesus virtually goes on to ask if they are sure they are worthy
of the best seats. Jesus says - 'How serious are you about being a follower
of mine'?
• No one likes people who are full of themselves (Explain). If we
want to get on in life, we need to understand and practice humility.
• After all - we are all equal and valued in the eyes of Jesus.
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Kids
Church Activity:
To devise three small plays for children to act out
– Kids rushing to get the best seats and to sit next to their
popular friends,
- Being big headed and showing no humility and telling someone on the
phone how good they are,
- Team sports with children dressed in team colours and rubbishing the
losing team and how they were the best and always are.
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