Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—2 Corinthians 5:16-21
by: Susie Sanborn.
I find myself using this scripture often for children’s messages at our church. Verse seventeen gives such a clear image of what it is to be made new in Christ. I often use the illustration of butterflies and frogs in these messages. Can you imagine what it would be like to crawl or swim for the first part of your life and then suddenly be able to fly or jump? Freedom is a very good description of what that kind of transformation must be like. It is also what Christians experience when they give their lives to Christ: freedom from sin and freedom to be used by God.