Tell the Children you have a very special guest for them to meet – someone they have all heard about and now, just for you (point to a door or other entry way), here is JESUS!
Nothing happens. Give it a beat and then say, “Well, maybe not just yet. But the fact that you may have thought, even for an instant, that Jesus was going to walk in to greet you is the lesson we want to know and live every day. Jesus is alive – in our hearts and souls and in our lives. Jesus was resurrected – he came back alive after being dead – and he will come back to us again. Nobody knows the hour or the day, but we want to be ready when he does. So let’s go to Sunday School and learn more.