Ephesians 2:1-3

1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Talk about it:

Why is the word dead a good way to describe a person before God saves them? (Parents, help your children think about the anaolgy of dead person. He can’t do anything at all to help his cause. He can’t get up. He can’t breathe. That is a picture of us apart from God’s saving grace.)