Read Mark 9:30-37 with your family.

Adults don’t always understand children, but Jesus did. Jesus showed children being an important part of his community.

Children in Jesus’ day were almost always at home being taught how to read and write and do math by their mothers and the other people in the household. They were taught about God by people who loved them. And they were taught how to ask questions about God and other spiritual things.

Jesus wanted all of his followers, not just parents and grandparents, to see how special it was to see God through the eyes of a child. They understood far better than the adults often did, and Jesus told the adults that accepting a child and listening to a child was like accepting God into their lives.