What you need
You will need a large box of linking toys, such as LEGOs.
What you do
After reading the Creation account in a children’s picture Bible, get out the box of LEGOs. Help your children make several designs, such as people, cars or houses. After completion, take the creations apart and place the individual pieces on the floor.
Q. How long do you think it will take for these pieces to put themselves back together without any help from us?
A. It will never happen.
Take the toy pieces and place them in a box.
Ask the children to shake the box around and then dump them on the floor. After the pieces fall randomly, express frustration. "I wanted them to fall into place to re-create the same designs we made before! Why didn’t it work?"
Try again several times. Keep expressing frustration that it doesn’t work. (Your children will think you’re silly, of course.)
Q. How many times do you think it will take shaking and dumping before the pieces become the designs again?
A. It will never happen.
Key verse: "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." (Genesis 1:1-2, NKJV)
What you share
Explain that many people believe that the world simply made itself by chance
rather than God creating it on purpose. Just as you were silly to expect the
toy pieces to fall into place, it’s silly to think our entire world made itself
without a Creator.
—Adapted from Family
Night Tool Chest
Coming Next Week:
God is personal.
All Bible
Quotations are from The
Adventures in Odyssey Bible,
New King James Version unless otherwise noted.
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