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A collection of vivid object lessons for children's sermons, Sunday school, or homeschooling that will help the children in your life learn and remember important biblical truths.

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Philosophie et théologie

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 avril 1997
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441242846
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Published by Baker Books a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.bakerbooks.com

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ISBN 978-1-4412-4284-6

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INTRODUCTION

It was at vacation Bible school, as a high school s tudent, that I heard and saw my first object lesson. I had been in church all of my life, but here was something that was a breed apart from all the lessons I had heard before. The entire group was spellbound. I saw in the object lesson a packaged form of “instant attention.” If a children’s show on television should ever be foolish enough to present a lecture without story or visual display in it, it would be tuned off by children, and would soon be off the air. The same fate awaits the religious teacher who attempts to teach with merely a lecture. He is instantly tuned out of the mind of the child who fidgets in front of him. A children’s sermon should be a (1) story w ith an (2) object lesson or visual display, and it should be (3) related to a child’s experience. In this day of television anything less than this is obsolete. There is nothing new about this. Our Savior, the greatest teacher of all, used these three methods. I like to imagine that he pointed to a wheat field or a flock of sheep and goats or some other object as he spoke. If not, the objects that he mentioned in his parables and lessons were easily visualized in the imagination. His object lessons included barns, candles, coins, a pearl, leaven, fi sh, sheep, goats, crops, salt, flash floods, bread, wine, towers, and the like. This is an exciting way to teach, and one that will bring real satisfaction to hearer-viewer and speaker-exhibitor alike. This book is a continuation of the approach used in its sister volume,Story Sermons for Children. The two books between them cover the major events of the church year and supplement each other in the doctri nes covered.

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Introduction

OBJECT LESSONS

CONTENTS

1. That Certain Something 2. The Girl Who Swallowed an Egg Beater 3. Empty Minds 4. A Fisher of Men 5. The Girl Who Acted Like a Cactus 6. Christine Forgives 7. Butch’s Meanness 8. The Broken Dish 9. Junior’s Example 10. The Too Busy Weed 11. The Boy with the Baby Faith 12. Hera’s Glasses 13. The Sour Lemons 14. Jack Sprat 15. The Leopard Skin 16. The Cat Chaser 17. Rubbers that Ruined a Day 18. The Black and Blue Glasses 19. Mommies 20. The Bird on the Cross 21. Olga’s Big Eyes 22. A Book to Grow By 23. The Lost Load 24. The Girl Who Saw Good in Others 25. Medicine or Food 26. The Mule-headed Girl

CHILDREN’S SERMON TECHNIQUES

Story Sermons Object Lessons Picture and Chalk Talks Puppetry

Special Day Index Back cover

Well done, good and faithful servant. —Matthew 25:21

1. That Certain Something

There was a little boy who had something wrong with his throat so that he could not talk. Everybody called him Shadow, because he was a lways around but nobody ever noticed him. Shadow attended church school for ten years without missing. He attended junior youth fellowship for four years without missing. However everyone thought he was useless, because he was so shy that he sat by himself in a corner and never helped with a thing. He even came to youth fellowship the day he fell out of a tree and broke his arm and had a terrible headach e. The Sunday they had the bad snow storm, he waded through a foot and a half of s now, and was the only person at youth fellowship besides the advisor. While Shadow was still very young, he died and went to be with God in heaven. Shadow’s guardian angel was there to welcome him wh en he arrived. In heaven Shadow saw that they were making plans for a great celebration. His guardian angel told him that they were planning a reception for on e of the finest Christians in the world. All the angels were getting lined up to sing a mighty chorus of praise. There was to be a great parade and there was a glorious g olden chair that the Christian hero was to ride in. Shadow began to cry. “How I wish I could have done something wonderful for Jesus, but I could not sing, I could not answer my church school teacher’s questions, I could not help in church in any way. I was comple tely useless, like a bump on a log.” Shadow longed to see the great Christian hero. He a lso longed to sit in the wonderful golden chair for just a minute. “Do you mind if I sit in the hero’s chair for just a minute before he comes?” Shadow asked his guardian angel. With the angels permission, Shadow climbed up into the beautiful chair. “When do you think the hero will come?’ Shadow aske d his angel. “The hero is sitting in the golden chair this very minute,” smiled the angel. “Why there’s nobody in the chair but me!” exclaimed Shadow. “Of course, you are the great hero,” answered the a ngel. “You have that certain something.” “What certain something?” wondered Shadow. The angel continued, “There were twenty children in your junior youth fellowship, but it would have died without the eight who had th at certain something. There were one hundred and fifty members in your church but it would have died without the forty people who had that certain something.” “What certain something?” broke in Shadow. The angel continued, “There have been many great Ch ristians, great missionaries, church leaders, but everybody who has really been o f service to Jesus has had that certain something. Without them God’s church could not exist. Without that certain something people are useless for God. Shadow, you a re a great hero, a soldier for God!” “Aren’t you going to tell me what that certain some thing is?” demanded Shadow. “God is spelling it out in the sky right now!” replied the angel. With great fiery letters in all the colors of the rainbow, God wrote the letters. So big and glorious they were that they filled the entire heavens with light as far as the eye could see in every direction. He wrote the letters one by one: “F” . . . “A” . . . “I” . . . “H” . . . “F” . . . “U” . . . “L”. “That is it,” said the angel. “You were faithful.”

Object Lesson Application