Props: locusts in a small aquarium or a plastic locust / honeycomb or bowl of honey

We call him “John the Baptist.” Some prefer to call him “John the Baptizer” just to be clear that John isn’t seen as baptizing Jesus into the Baptist church, making Jesus a Baptist. Some of you Baptist may disagree on this.

But when we think of “John the Baptist,” or “John the Baptizer,” the first thing that comes to mind is not water, but probably something else: strange clothing and weird eating habits. At least they seem strange and weird to us.

A diet of locusts and wild honey –that’s what we’re told by the gospel writers that John ate as his staple foods.

[Show people the locusts and the honeycomb. You can have kids come up and look at them. Then point to the locusts.]

Would you eat these? No?

So…