When I was a pastor, I did children's sermons that were actually object lessons. I would take an object from everyday life, like a work glove, a bar of soap, and I would use it to teach the children a spiritual truth. But I remember how even adults during those object lessons that they would rouse themselves away and set up and pay attention because whatever our age, we like visuals, we like object lessons as they communicate at a deep level. Perhaps the most eloquent, the most dramatic object lesson in all of history is that God gave that the moment that Jesus cried out on a cross, It is finished.
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