Fruit of the Spirit Bible Study for Kindergartners - part 2

Lesson – Fruit of the Spirit & Galatians 5 Bible Verse

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. “

- Galatians 5:22

Today we are going to talk about fruit.  Do you like fruit?  What is your favorite fruit?  All fruit is different.  It tastes different, it looks different and it feels different in your mouth (sometimes fruit is crunchy, sometimes soft, sometimes juicy, etc.)

The Bible talks about fruit but it’s a different kind of fruit, it's called the fruit of the Spirit.  The fruit of the Spirit is a little like real fruit because they are each special and different too.  It's really neat because when we ask Jesus to live in us his Spirit stays with us and He will give us some of this special fruit.  As we grow and learn more about Jesus, the Holy Spirit will give us more and more fruit so we can become more like Jesus.

Now, the fruit I’m talking about isn’t strawberries or apples.  We read about it in the Bible in a book called Galatians.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.  All of these fruits are good to have and the Holy Spirit wants to give them to us.

It is important to God that we develop the fruits of God's spirit because these are the qualities that God has. We need to learn how to use these fruits so that everyone around us will see how it looks to act like Jesus.  It takes time and practice to develop our fruit. Sometimes we may not feel like exercising our fruit, but with practice and self-control, we can learn to use them more and more.

God wants us to try to be good and have the fruit of the spirit in us. 

Let’s talk about the different fruits of the spirit and what they all mean.

Just in case you don't know what each of the fruit of the spirit means I'm going to try to explain them.  (Show pictures of fruit with corresponding fruit of the spirit printed).