Becoming like children

One of my favorite classes to teach is bible to my ELL students.  At first I was somewhat nervous about teaching bible.  I have not taken a bible class since college and was not really trained to teach bible.  Thankfully we serve a God who loves His children and He has prepared me in so many ways to answer some difficult questions that my students ask me.

We are currently going through the Old Testament and I am teaching stories that are VERY new to my students.  It is so refreshing to watch these little six grade students become so impressed about what God has done throughout history.  In some ways, their amazement about God's power has really challenged me.  How is it that we become so apathetic to the stories that God shares with us in the bible?  It is really AMAZING that God flooded the whole earth or delivered his people from Egypt in many spectacular ways or even allowed a donkey to see an angel of God and talk to his master.

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 

Matthew 18:3

One thing I am learning about six grade students is that they cease to be amazed and they ask very deep and thought provoking questions.

For example...
1.  If another angel were to fall from heaven, would there be another Satan or evil in the world?
2. Why did God not allow the children into the Ark?  If there parents did not teach them about God, how were they to know?
3. Why do we hate the Muslims when they are such nice people?  Should they not get a chance to go to heaven?
4. Who did Cain and Seth marry?  (this was a fun one) 
5.  Did Adam and Eve go to heaven?
6.  How did the animals know to go into the Ark?  

My three students