Exegetical Aim: To demonstrate that God's love is a gift and not something that is earned.

Props: A box wrapped with paper and a bow, a cut-out heart with "I love you" inside the box, a five-dollar bill, and a piece of paper made to look like a ticket stub.

Lesson: Do you know what a gift is? (response) Is it something special? (response) Why is it something special? (response) When do you get gifts? (response) Let me see if I can give you an example of a gift, and you tell me if I'm right.

The first example will really be of something that you've bought, or earned. I went to the movies the other day. I had worked really hard and earned some money. Hold up the five-dollar bill. So I went to the theater, and looked at all of the pictures of the movies that were playing, and I made my dec…