At the very last minute... in fact, forty minutes into the session, I'm
asked to take over the lesson for my Church's Sunday School for the
two-to-five year old set. Today's story is the temptation of Christ.
When I get to the part of the story where Satan takes Jesus to the top of the Temple of Jerusalem, I say to the kids (and I'm paraphrasing on the fly, because our storybook is clearly not written for the preschool set):
So
the Devil says to Jesus: "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself
down from here. You're the Son of God. He won't let you get hurt. You
can do it. Go on. Jump off."
And Jesus says: "No, I don't think
so. You shouldn't put God to the test like that. I know that God loves
me. I don't need to jump off the top of this building."
So Jesus resisted temptation and he didn't jump.
And George looks up from his pile of Legos and says "Spider-man could do it."