The Gospel understanding of an eight year old

The Gospel understanding of an eight year old

Originally I did not plan on writing another post on the gospel but tonight allowed for a great opportunity.
My wife and I have an opportunity to meet with a ministry every week called STEP where we both have kids that we mentor. Tonight's lesson was strongly focused on recapping and understanding the gospel.

The conversation with my eight year old mentee Xia Xia:
Me: Who is God?
Xia Xia: The guy who made everything (referring to our conversation last week about Genesis 1 which blew his mind)
Me: Who is Jesus?
Xia Xia: The Son of God
Me: what did He do?
Xia Xia: He came to the planet as a baby and grew up and did good things for people and never did anything to hurt nobody. Then He died and came back to life, but first He talked to that other guy on the other cross about heaven.
Me: Why did He die
Xia Xia: Because thats why He came here. And so we wouldn’t have to.

(after a long conversation about what sin is and that God cannot sin or be around sin)
Me: So if God cannot be around sin what would that mean for us?
Xia Xia: It means we can’t be with God... but Jesus told the other guy on the cross he would be in heaven....

(after a long conversation on the implications of Christ’s death, atonement and beginning to move into memorizing our verse Romans 8:11)

Me: Any questions about the verse?
Xia Xia: (he decided to back track) If God can’t be around sin, and every one doesn’t believe... then where do those people go? (how would you dodge that question if you were afraid of turning people off by talking about hell)

(moved into a conversation about justice, mercy, heaven and hell)

Amazing the simplified answers and direct questions from a kid who didn’t know who Jesus was on the first lesson. He may not have all the pieces put together but at least its evident that he’s listening. Obviously this wasn’t the full conversation but this seemed to be a great complement to last weeks post.

Grace and peace,