Object: A stapler and some pieces of paper.

Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever thought that Jesus is like a stapler? You know what a stapler is, don’t you? It looks like this. [Hold up the stapler.] Now, how do you think that Jesus could be compared to a stapler? [Let them answer.]

Those are some pretty good ideas, but I would like to try a different one on you. Let’s suppose that one of these pieces of paper is God and the other piece of paper is man, or all of the people in the world. I am going to mark one piece of paper "God," and the other piece I am going to mark "people." God is holy and perfect. People are sinners and not holy. God wants peo…