I'm Not Smarter than a Fifth Grader!

I am on an internship for the Youth Ministry Program at Crown College. I am very blessed to work with a church plant in Waconia and it has been awesome thus far! One of my tasks in my internship/job description is to work in Good News Club. This is a ministry that meets in the elementary school after classes on Tuesdays. There are about 10 kids in it ranging from 1st to 4th grade. We sing songs, play games and learn about Bible stories. It is a really fun time and as cliche as it sounds I want to teach the kids but they have been teaching me as well. I thank God for allowing me to spend time interacting with these kids and also for teaching me through that interaction. Let me now communicate what I have learned. There is a young boy, who will go unnamed, and he is a little crazy! He is super funny and he shows love in a great way but his focus is minimal. He also can quote a Bible verse better than any other boy I have ever met! He is an interesting and impressive young boy! The thing that I have learned from him and other kids in Good News Club is to not care what others think about you when you are pleasing God. This young boy will dance, sing and shout for God and doesn't care what others think! Oh man, if I only had that kind of God-pleasing spirit instead of a man-pleasing spirit. I am looking into the things that hold me back from being a child of God and by God's wonderful working grace He will bring me to a place of child like faith! I pray that we, as believers, can wrestle with this and stop allowing social correctness to rule. I have found that as we get older we learn what is 'right' and 'wrong' according to social preference. I found that when songs are playing in Good News Club some kids dance and sing and others kinda just stand and mumble. The older ones tend to just stand and hardly sing. I believe that we have taught that it is not appropriate or not cool to dance and be goofy. Yet, the younger ones have not been taught or just disregard society's view on being goofy for the Lord and I love it! God, may I not worry about being too cool as long as I am pleasing in your sight!