Truth Taught:
God is everywhere and lives within believers.
Materials:
Deflated balloons, Bible
Instructions
- Show a deflated balloon and ask: Is there air around this balloon? (Yes!)
- Move the balloon around the room and ask again at each spot: Is there air here? (Yes!)
- Read John 14:16-17, explaining that the Holy Spirit is God living inside believers.
- Hand out balloons, but don’t blow them up yet. Ask again: Is there air around the balloon? (Yes!)
- Instruct students to blow up the balloon and ask: Is there air inside? (Yes!)
- Discuss that just as we made a choice to put air inside the balloon, believers choose to accept God into their lives.
- When the Lord comes into our lives, we are transformed just like this balloon is transformed. It is the same balloon but also very different.