Source (Where I saw it): Original
Supplies: A glass of clean water, and dirt from outside, coffee filter or some other filter
Preparation: Be sure to have some dirt and some clean water.
The object lesson & how I used it...
Main Point: Wrong choices add up.
Illustration: Show the boys and girls the clean water. Explain to them that our life is like this glass of water. As we make wrong choices, they start to add up. Slowly throw in pieces of the dirt. We may not think telling one little lie here, or cheating off someone’s homework, or disobeying out parent's are that big a deal in the moment, but as we make more and more wrong choices our life gets dirtier and dirtier. This isn’t what God wants our life to look like!
Explanation: God will forgive us and clean us out though if we ask. The best choice we can make is to love and obey God. God loves us and has our best interests in mind. Pour the dirty water through the filter. It probably won’t be perfect but you can explain that when we give our life to God he constantly is cleaning us out. Being a christian is a life long process, we don’t become perfect overnight. We just have to try to make the most right choices as we can every day!
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