Object: Some barbells or some kind of weight-lifting equipment.

Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to learn some very important ways to teach others about God and Jesus. I brought along with me some exercise weights that I know you have seen before. [Hold up one of the weights.] Do you know what people use something like this for? [Let them answer.] That's right, they use weights like this to make themselves strong. Every day someone takes this and lifts it a lot of times until their arms and their whole bodies are very tired. Each day they lift more weight and they lift it more times so that every day their bodies are stronger than the day before. It takes a lot of practice, and, if you do what they do, you will have some of the biggest muscles in our town.

But before you …