Object: a picture of Jesus.

Boys and girls, let's talk about friends for a few minutes. How do you know when somebody is really a friend? (Talk about this with the children. Encourage them to share a variety of answers from their experience.) There are lots of ways to tell if somebody is our friend, aren't there.

Did you ever have a friend who turned out to be an enemy instead? (Talk about it.) Sometimes we can get fooled, can't we! Somebody tells us they will be our friend, but then something happens and we find out we can't trust them. Or we find out they were not telling the truth in t…