Exploring Questions about Jesus

Here is a question from Rachel: “Why was Jesus born in a stable?”
The easiest answer which the Bible tells us is that he was born in a stable because there was no room in the inn. You see, there were a lot of people in town--it was very crowded, and there were no rooms left in the motels and probably no room left even with other members of the family that might have lived in Bethlehem.  But it was good to find even a barn to stay in because it was out of the weather, and probably fairly comfortable. God does provide for us, even if sometimes in unexpected ways.

Brooklyn asks, “I like to play with toys. Did Jesus have toys?” 
Surely not the kind that we often have today. To play is much more important than to have toys. Many children even today do not have toys-- at least like we play with, and yet they love to play just like you do. It’s amazing how many kinds of things you can pretend that a small stick is!  I’ll bet you like to use your imagination, too! Surely Jesus would have played just like other children always like to do. 

Abigail asks, “Does Jesus look like the picture on the chapel wall?”
We do not know how Jesus looked-- we have no pictures of him. We do not even have any kind of physical description of Jesus given to us in the New Testament. The pictures on the wall or the stained glass pictures of Jesus in the sanctuary are what artists thought that he might have looked like. We all have our ideas, I suppose. What is your favorite picture of Jesus?

Thanks for the questions, kids! Stay tuned for more to come!

Pastor David