Fruit of the Spirit - Sunday School Activity - Video

The fruit of the spirit need to be taught to Sunday school age children to help them grasp how God expects them to act toward others. Having a Godly attitude toward others helps others notice there is something different about you and often want what you have - Christ.

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When teaching the fruit of the spirit Sunday school lesson, have some fresh fruit available for the kids to munch on. In a bowl, put some red and green grapes, cut up some red and green apples, and toss in some watermelon or cantaloupe. Be sure to add lemon juice to the cut apples to keep them from browning. Many children love bananas too and can be cut in slices or given as a whole banana.

Other fruit options:

• strawberries
• pears
• coconut
• pomegranates
• oranges
• pineapple
• cherries

Here is a fun song by Kathy Vincent, otherwise known as 'The Scripture Lady'. There is an ad at the beginning of the video (sorry). Also, she does change up the words a bit to give the kids the 'meaning' of the fruit instead making it a good song to sing after the lesson has been taught.

Here you go. I hope you enjoy!

Fruit of the Spirit Song with Motions

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Fruit of the Spirit - Sunday School Lesson

Learning about the fruit of the spirit at a young age will help your Sunday school children grow to live a more Godly life. Without the basic knowledge of how God expects us to live, children may never grow to let God shine through and may even come short of the glory of God.

Fruit of the Spirit
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While learning to get by in this world is a necessity, our eternal life is the most important thing children need to know about and how to share that knowledge with others.

That being said, let's begin our Sunday school lesson about the fruit of the spirit.

What Are the Fruits of the Spirit?

The fruit of the spirit can be found in Galatians 5:22-23. I've added the verse below for you.

 

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

²³ Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

 

 

There are 9 elements to the fruit of the spirit as you can see in the verses above. For younger children, you may have to work on two at a time while older children can do three, four or even five one week and finish up the others in the weeks to come.

 

Trying to do all 9 in one lesson may result in the kids forgetting them or even becoming confused.

 

One of the best ways to learn all of the fruits is by learning them just as they are in the bible. Start with the first part of the verse - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness.

 

Again, if you have smaller children, just work on two - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy.

 

Many kids learn visually, so having these printed on a large piece of poster board will be your best option. Of course, if you have a black board or a dry erase board, those will work great too.

 

Print this on the board...

 

But the

fruit of the Spirit

is

love

joy

peace

longsuffering

gentleness

 





Don't add the other fruits until you are ready. Having too much on the poster board will only cause confusion.

 

When the kids have learned the first part, then and only then should you move on to the last part of the verse...

 

goodness

faith

meekness

temperance

against such there is no law.

 

 

So, what do these fruits mean?

 

Meaning of the Fruit of the Spirit

 



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First, it is important to know that God calls them the fruit of the spirit not 'fruits'. The best way to
describe this is to say that it is ONE fruit with nine elements. The first three elements are in relation to God. The second three are in relation to man. The last three are in relation to one's (inner) self.

 

If you'd like to study these using the elements above, only do three each time you meet that way you can talk about the relation to God, man, and one's self as well.

 

We'll start with the first one and go through all nine. I've listed them below in case you need them.

 

• love - to be self-sacrificing and show a Christlike love.
• joy - to have an inner rejoicing in the Lord.
• peace - to have the peace (salvation) that only Christ can give and no one can take it away.
• longsuffering - showing patience in times of trouble or suffering especially when those troubles are brought on by other people such as being provoked.
• gentleness - to be kind, gracious, tender, and mild
• goodness - always ready to do good and to be moral
• faith - being true to his promise and tasks he performs
• meekness - having controlled strength and listening to hear God
• temperance - self-control

And, last but not least, the end of the verse. What does 'against such there is no law' mean?

 

This means that there is no law that says you can not possess these virtues. There are so many laws in this world telling us what we can and can't do, it is good to know that no man can take these things away from us.







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