Matthew 18: 1-6 Luke 18: 15-17

Today we are once again celebrating our youth and time of worship with them. As we read the scriptures, I hope all of us were reminded of how Jesus responded to children. How he invited them to come to him; how he welcomed them, and took them in his arms, and prayed for them. Jesus didn’t view children as an annoyance or an interruption; he didn’t consider them unworthy of his time and attention. On the contrary, he held them up as examples of faith; as illustrations of how we must approach God if we are going to enter the kingdom of heaven.