Materials
Electrical appliances and other items which are useless without power
Activity
Demonstrate various electric tools and appliances without plugging them in:
1. Use your electric screw driver to turn a screw.
2. Mix a drink with a spoon using your blender.
3. Sit in front of a fan that is off, fanning yourself with your hand.
4. Sharpen your pencil by hand in an electric pencil sharpener.
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Discussion
Explain to the children how useful these tools are. Of course someone will speak up and tell you why they are not working too well.
These things were all created to work under electrical power.
Application
In the same way we were all created to work under God’s power. While we were each created with a purpose, only through God’s strength can we be fully effective and do all the things God created us to do.
2 Corinthians 4:7
In this object lesson, children and youth are reminded that God created us with a special purpose, but that purpose can only be accomplished when we rely on his power rather than our own.
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