An easy to do gospel illussion from Richard Lenski
You can use this gospel illusion from Richard Lenski in your children's ministry, Sunday school or kidmin. You don't have to be a Christian magician to do this trick on the meaning of the Bible.
Verse:
2Timothy 3:16: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
Goal:
To teach that the Bible is more than just a book of religion.
Supplies Needed:
- Bible Production Box or any other silk production device (google 'Bible Production Box' to find one.)
- six 9 inch silks
- 1 streamer
- a Jesus silk.
The Bible Production Box can be shown empty and still you can produce a good quantity of silks. You can buy these silks on Amazon.com or Ebay.
These boxes are available online but you can make one like this.
Set Up:
Load the production box so that you produce the 9 inch silks first, then the streamer and finally the Jesus silk. I use one nine inch silk per location of the Bible in the Library so that if you come up with more locations, add silks.
Lesson
Tell:
More Bibles have been printed and sold than any other book in history. With the sales of all these books, it has attained the right to be in a library. The question is where in the library would we put this book?
The obvious place would be in the religious section.
Do:
Produce a 9” silk
Tell:
Once it is there many people would say the book is empty
Do:
Open the book and look through it at the audience.
Tell:
and has nothing more to say, but that is not the case.
You could place it in the history section.
Do:
Produce another 9” silk.
Tell:
It is a book filled with historical and accurate information of not only Jewish history and the birth of Christianity but of world history. It is a book of geology locating peoples, cities and counties of the world.
Do:
Produce another silk.
Tell:
Look in the self help section and it should be there. It gives a guide to life and making good sound decisions.
Do:
Another silk produced.
Tell:
Going on down to the health section,
Do:
Produce another silk.
Tell:
and you will find advice on not only healthy eating but it points you to a path to healing to a healer greater than any doctor you will find here on earth.
And finally you could put it in the mathematic section.
Do:
Produce another silk.
Tell:
It’s a math book that will confound the experts. It speaks of marriage where two become one. If one can put 1,000 to flight, two can put 10,000 to flight: how does that compute. And the biggest math problem presented is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are ONE God, not three.
Do:
Now start to produce the streamer.
Tell:
The Bible is all this and more. It is a path for our lives. It gives the history and foundation of our faith. It is a love story, a love story of God and His love for His people. It describes the man’s sin and God’s redemption plan for us.
Do
Produce the Jesus silk.
Tell:
He came, He died and provided a way for us to have eternal life with Him all paid for by His love for us.