Ideas for a children's talk

This morning when I was coming here I saw an elephant in the park. Do you believe me? Am I telling a lie or a story? It is a story. But why might I say that? As a joke? To see if you were listening? How do we know what is ‘a story’ and what is true?

There are some things which were not true in the past, but are true now. Let’s see if the adults can think of any things. Things that, if they had talked about them when they were young, no-one would have believed such things were possible. E.g. a man walking on the moon, anything to do with computers, boiling water in a plastic kettle.

When Jesus came back from the dead at Easter it was really hard for his friends to believe it – but it really was true. And because it was true, and they soon came to believe it, it changed how we can all understand truth. We now know that Jesus is with us – even if we don’t understand it. That’s what faith is all about: believing someone you trust to tell the truth.

And to know when they are joking about the elephant in the park!