Object Lesson | Who Do You Want To Save You?

Source (Where I saw it): Original

Supplies: Sheets with pictures of heroes who you would want to be there to save you from a burning building and other things you wouldn’t want in charge of saving you like a banana or puppet.

Preparation: Create a slideshow or print of sheets of pictures

The object lesson & how I used it...

Main Point: Who do you depend on?

Illustration: Come to the front and tell the kids to imagine they are trapped in a burning building.  Smoke is all around them and there is no way out.  Just when you think all hope is lost, you hear a voice outside with someone coming to rescue you.  As I show you these pictures tell me yes or no if you would be happy to know this was the person or thing coming to save you.

Explanation:  We all have an idea of who we would depend on in certain situations, whether it is our parents or friends or someone else.  The truth is we need to depend on God in our lives first, because God never fails!

Object Lesson | Stand Up

Source (Where I saw it): Original

Supplies:  A paper box, tape, tissues, a solid step stool

Preparation: Make some random step stools from weak materials

The object lesson & how I used it...

Main Point: We need to depend on God!

Illustration: Come to the front and ask which one of these step stools would be able to hold me up?  Which would you feel comfortable holding you up?  Of course most of these would crush under the pressure of a person.  This step stool is made to support the weight and will hold up over time.

Explanation:  In life the strongest person in our life is God, and yet so many people think of something else first when situations come up in life.  When we need to get something from up high, we don’t go finding 10 tissue boxes!  Yet when we feel overwhelmed or just need someone who will never let us down people run to others who aren’t as dependable as God.  God should be our number one!  Where people, friends, and even family can fail us, God will never fail us!