Excerpt from My 5th Grade Sunday School Class

Tiffany: So, this week is holy week, right?
(Confused looks from children raised in the Evangelical Church.)
Tiffany: I mean we don't call it that very often here at E-Free... But we're celebrating what this week?
Sarah: Jesus' death.
Carie: Yeah, Jesus was crucified next to two guys. One wanted to be with Jesus after they died, the other one made fun of him...then a bird came and pecked his eyes out!
Tiffany: Did you watch The Passion, Carie?
Carie: Yeah. I love that movie!
Tiffany: Well, I don't know if the bird was in the Bible. But,...
Sarah: In our big group time, it was kind of weird how they just said "Judas died," but didn't explain how he died.
Tiffany: Well...I guess they were just lookin' out for the second graders, Sarah. Maybe a little too gruesome for them?
Caitlyn: Guess what, Tiffany? The word "cross" is in my Bible FIVE times (Caitlyn's looking in the concordance--a seemingly incomplete concordance).
Tiffany: So, what day do we celebrate Jesus dying on the cross?
Carie: Good Friday.
Sarah: And then He rose from the dead on Sunday.
Carie: Why do we call it 'Good' Friday? That's weird.
Sarah: I know...I mean He died that day.
Caitlyn: But He died for our sins...that's why it's good.
Tiffany: I've always thought that was weird too, Carie.
Carie: We should call it Sad Friday!
Tiffany: And Happy Sunday?
Carie: (Smiles).
Tiffany: I agree.
The Apostle Paul: If we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--because who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God (Romans 6).