• Object Lesson: Planted In God's Love

  Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 14, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: Church Of God

OBJECT LESSON: PLANTED IN GOD'S LOVE

Items needed:

Table

Seeds (enough for all listeners)

Large pot with potting soil

Set up the table with the seeds and pot arranged on it where listeners can get to them during the invitation, perhaps in the front of your worship area. Then introduce the activity with the following:

"I have a prayer station set up for you to come and meditate and pray. Part of the tools for becoming emotionally healthy in our spirituality is contemplation/reflection/mediation. As you meditate on the rootedness of God’s love and seek God’s will, I invite you as an act of prayer and worship to take a seed and plant it into the soil. This act may symbolize your desire to rooted in God’s love or to be filled by His Spirit. It could mean that you want to continue or maybe just begin. It is an invitation for you prayerfully come and actively worship embracing the unchanging love of God."