Purpose: To stress our need of Jesus to show us how to do good things.

Materials: An electric lamp and a piece of white paper cut to represent a bolt of lightning.

Lesson: These two objects remind us of something that we see and use often. Every time we have a thunderstorm, we see the powerful destructive stabs of lightning ripping through the wet air. Most of the time, we look out upon the storm from a warm, well-lighted house where we are safe from the storm.

Now, the lights in our home and the lightning in the storm are charged with the same kind of power, namely, electricity. In one form, it is dangerous and destructive. In the other form, it is a quiet and steady current that makes it sa…