Props: use a real or puppet butterfly, or the New Life Butterfly Snack or Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft.

(Say:) Who knows what a butterfly is before it changes into a butterfly? (Listen for answers.) Yes, a caterpillar. The word for "Change" in the Bible, is the from the word "Metamorphosis." It is the same word we use to describe how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. The Bible says, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come." 2 Corinthians 5:17. Becoming a new creation is a metamorphosis, or change, that God makes in our hearts and lives when GOD SAVES US.

When a caterpillar is living as a caterpillar, can it fly? Does it look like a butterfly? Does it act like a butterfly? No. But when the caterpillar’s metamorphosis, or change occurs, it becomes a butterfly. So you see, the caterpillar can no longer look or act like a caterpillar, because it has become an entirely new creature! Boys and girls, that’s how it is when GOD SAVES US. We are forgiven for all the wrong things we do, and God no longer sees all our mistakes. He only sees Jesus living in us! The Holy Spirit then helps us to follow and obey God.

Would you like to have this kind of change or metamorphosis happen in your life? If you ask Jesus into your heart, God has promised that he will make you into a new creature, not a butterfly of course, but a Christian, His child, who will live with him for all eternity! (See 2 Corinthians 5:17-19)

(Pray and thank God for making it possible for us to become new creatures and for giving us eternal life in His Son.)

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