 Okay. Good morning, everyone. Good to see you all. I know we have very few of you in the class. We'll wait it for a couple more to join. But since it's already nine minutes past that time, we'll just begin class and just hope that Kiran and Erin and Thomas and Siddharth will join us. Until then, we'll do a recap so maybe they can join us in the meantime. So yesterday we were basically looking at how to write a lesson plan, the importance of writing a lesson plan. We looked at, we're looking at the different sections or different components of a lesson plan. The first thing we said was learning objectives, which we looked at last week, last Tuesday. And yesterday we looked at introduction after lesson objective is the recap and then is the introduction to your lesson. So we said the importance of, we looked at the importance of having a good introduction because your introduction is where you can catch the attention of the children. It's a best place to get their attention. It's also the worst place to lose their attention. And we know that if you don't have the children's attention, we cannot teach them anything. So it's important that your introduction is, you know, catches that attention is creative is something that is participatory that involves the children, excites them, you know, gives them kinds of thoughts about or makes them curious about what you are going to teach them in the lesson. So it should, your attention, your introduction should establish a point of contact with the children. It should talk about something that they are going through that they challenges their face or some difficulties or their real life situations, something that they're experiencing so that, sorry, they can connect with you, something that will, you know, arouse their curiosity and something also that they can identify with you. I think even when you're preaching or you're basically teaching, it's important to have a good introduction so that it can catch the attention of your listeners or those audience that you are preaching to. Okay. So begin the introduction well and we also, I also mentioned that it's very important that we keep the introduction very short and brief because you have a lesson to follow. So the two main components that you can use in an introduction is an attention getter. You can show them objects. You can also do a skit. You can have a quiz and I gave you an example of a quiz. I gave you an example of a skit. You can also use different objects or you can use an activity which I explained last Tuesday before we ended class, a short activity, which I mentioned to you all, and you could also, you know, start off with a game. And the second thing that you can do for your introduction to make it very creative and interactive and catch the attention of people is, you know, is object lessons. So let me just present that on the screen for you. Okay. So what is an object lesson? And, you know, just it's about using any object. Okay. Okay. An object lesson is used to illustrate a concept, a truth, some learning in the story that you want to reiterate, or you want children to understand. You can combine this object lesson with an object or a trick that will be kind of like a visual aid to help children to remember the lesson. And I mentioned yesterday in class that, you know, when we even when you're preaching, you can use these object lessons because these are powerful reminders to people. So, you know, sometime in the way in the future, when they look at the object, God can remind them through that object something that you have preached or taught or used in your Bible study or taught them through your Bible study. And God can use that to for them to remember or to reiterate the lesson and the truth to come back into their lives. And that's why we see that even we mentioned yesterday's class that Jesus used a lot of object lessons. He said, look at the lilies of the field, look at the birds of the air. You know, the sparrows, you're worth more than the sparrows. And he said, you know, farmer went to sow his seeds. And he was just teaching there and the farmer is sowing and they remember the kind of soils used for farming the seeds. And he used these different parables, you know, to bring home the truth or to explain concepts to explain truths to them. And I'm sure that even after Jesus got back to the Father in heaven, you know, when people looked at the mountain, they would remember what Jesus told them about faith that, you know, if you speak to the mountains to go and fall into the sea, it'll obey you. So you have faith as small as a mustard seed. When they looked at the mustard seed, it'll remind them of the faith. So, you know, using these various objects can bring home powerful truths and some concepts which are very difficult for people to understand, to comprehend, to kind of believe, how can that really happen? It's good to use objects. You know, whenever I'm writing the curriculum for Children's Church of a Catalyst, our APC School Outreach Ministry, and I'm looking for object lessons, I always find this pastor in the U.S. While he's preaching, he uses very, very good objects to reinforce the truth or to bring home the truth or to reiterate what he has said. So even when you are preaching or teaching, you can use object lessons. So how do you use object lessons? The first thing I put it up on your screen is introduce the object and connect that object to what you are really trying to explain. Then teach the basic truth and then it's important for you to relate the object to the Bible text. Okay. So I gave some examples of object lessons. I'll give you some more today. Now, for example, you want to teach children about sin and how sin is destable in God's sight, how sin separates us from God, how sin ruins our life, destroys our life. So you can just tell the children, you know, children, I have some tasty lime juice in this glass and, you know, I'm feeling very, very thirsty because I've been talking so you can pour some lime juice and then you can just taste it and say, wow, it's really tasty and it's kind of quenching my thirst. And then you can ask the children, how many of you would like to drink this lime juice and I'm sure children who learn by taste, they will put up their hands or maybe all children. So then you can have other paper cups and then you can put little, little lime juice in their cups and then give it to each child. Okay. And then you ask them, so did you like it? Was it tasty? Do you think it's good? It's perfect, right? The sugar, the salt, the tangy lemon taste and they will say, yes, it's very tasty. So then, you know, you say, okay, I have an idea. I just want to put something more into this lime juice and then you take little sand which you have and mud or sand or rock or stones, whatever and put them in that lime juice. And say now, who would like to drink this lime juice which has sand? Or if you put rock or stones and you can say, who would like to drink this lime juice with the sand or rock or stones? And I'm sure none of the children would want to. Then said, now why don't you want to drink this lime juice with sand? They'll say because it's not good, it's not healthy, we can fall sick. Yeah, this is no longer good compared to this lime juice which is good, which is tasty, which is healthy. This is no longer tasty or good or healthy. And then you can say, you know, children, our lives were like this, like this lime juice. Okay, when God created us, He created us perfect. He created us good. But you know, when Adam and Eve sinned and so you can say the sand here resembles sin. Okay, so when sin entered our lives, we were no longer perfect, we were no longer good. We were no longer, you know, right in God's sight, you know, nothing in us was good and that is why, you know, everything in us became really bad. That's why we even fall sick. We feel sad, we feel disappointed, we feel discouraged, there's hopelessness, there's pain, there's suffering. Everything that was not perfect, God created everything perfect like this lime juice, which was perfect, tasty and good, God created everything perfect. But when man sinned, everything became imperfect like this. Okay, just like you don't want to, you know, drink this, even God could not relate to us because we were imperfect because we are not good because we are sinners. And this is what a little sand, children, you know, I don't have to put this whole cup of sand into this or I don't need to take all the sand of the world and put it into this lime juice. Just a little sand, just one stone, just two stones can make this whole lime juice in this cup worthless. And that is how we are just a little sin, just little disobedience or small lie or using bad words or, you know, not listening to our parents, you know, can make our lives like this lime juice totally hopeless, worthless and good for nothing. Okay. So this is a good object lesson that you can teach children about sin. You can also teach them how God made everything perfect and how, you know, the sand here resembles something was imperfect in this world and that is a devil. The devil always wants to make us bad imperfect just like him. And so when we obey him, you know, some of his nature comes into us so you can pour a little sand. And, you know, we become just like Satan, imperfect, bad and evil, nothing in us is good. So, you know, see, this through the small object lesson, you know, we were able to teach some powerful truth. So what I did was basically introduce the object. Then I brought out the basic truth and now I'll have to connect it with my lessons. So today, what did we learn about? We learned today that, you know, how Adam and Eve sinned and how because of their sin, you know, everything that God created perfect, you know, became imperfect. And then you can continue with your lesson. And, you know, you can bring about the learning. Okay. Another object lesson that we could use is now I'm teaching children about healing and deliverance or just God is a healer. And then you can tell the children, you know, children did when, when we do something naughty or when we are bad or we do really, really bad things, you know, that's God punish us by giving us sickness, pain, suffering. Does he do that? You know, and so the children might say, yes, you know, God punishes us. So you want to tell them that God is not the author of sickness. He's not the author of pain or disease. So how do you explain it to children? Okay, so you can just go to a child who's in the class and say, give me five, give me 1000 rupees. Okay, so the child will look at you and say, you just tell the child, yeah, I'm asking you for 1000 rupees. Give it to me. So the child will say, I don't have 1000 rupees, auntie, or I don't have 1000 rupees uncle. And then you can go to another child and say, you know, make sure that these children don't have these things with them or even at home. Give me a guitar. So the child says, I don't have a guitar. I don't even have one at home. I don't know how to play a guitar. So you can go to another child and make sure the child does not have this with them or possesses one. You know, give me your mobile. Child says, auntie or uncle, I don't have a mobile. And so say, okay, so why were these three children class? Why were these children not able to give me 1000 rupees or a guitar or a mobile? So the children will say because they don't have one. Okay. He says, yeah, that's right because they don't have. They cannot give me. Okay. The same way God cannot give us what he does not have. Now in heaven is there sickness? Is there disease? Is there cancer? Is there Corona? Is there, you know, any kind of pain and suffering? And they'll think and some of them will say no. In heaven, is there any demonic oppression? Like can Satan come and oppress us in heaven? No. So when God does not have sickness and disease and pain and suffering, then how can he give it to us? Just like you don't have 1000 rupees or a guitar or mobile to give it to me. The same way God cannot give us what he does not have. So God is not somebody who is the author of sickness or disease or pain or suffering. And how do we all fall sick? Why do we all fall sick? Why do we get various diseases? Why do we even have a stomach ache and headache? Then you can get into the lesson and you can explain it to them. So now they're wondering, yeah, when God does not have it, they thought all this time God is the one who punishes us by giving us sickness and disease. Now he does not have it. So how do we fall sick? Why do we fall sick? So, you know, you're catching their attention, you're getting their curiosity and, you know, they are, they're wanting to hear the answer. So don't give them all the answers. You can take them to the lesson and say, now I've asked you a lot of questions. I'm going to answer you. So you listen carefully. We'll know where we get sickness from. Why do we fall sick? Where do we get all these diseases from? And why diseases are in this world when God created everything perfect and he did not put in any sickness and disease on this earth. Okay. So that is another object lesson. Now you're teaching the children about various reasons. You know why people fall sick? It's because of sin. It's because of consequences of their sin. And also it is when we sin that God removes his protection for us from us and the, you know, the devil is there to attack us at that moment. So you can use an object lesson to show them this. Then you can ask them, okay, what is this everybody? Can you see it class? Can you tell me what is it? Type your answers in the chat section. Yeah, it's an egg. Okay. So you can say what will happen if I throw this egg down or hit it on the throw it on the wall. What will happen? Any answers? It'll break. Yes. It'll kind of dirty the place. This place will get dirty and smelly. Okay. So you can say our lives are very delicate like this egg. Right. If I just hit it or throw it down or it just slips off of my hand, this egg can break and will create such a mess. So our lives are very, very delicate like this egg. Okay. And you say, you know, there's someone always who wants to destroy our lives. And you know the spoon resembles the person who wants to destroy our life. Who is that person who wants to destroy our lives? The children will say it's a devil Satan. Yes, devil Satan. It's not your friends. It's not your teachers who are very strict with you. It's a devil who wants to really destroy your life is waiting to just give you one knock. And you know, your life can be destroyed. You can be broken. Okay. So the devil is always there in the Bible. You can say what the Bible talks about the devil, what calls the devil. Now you say, you know, the devil can't do anything if we are children of God. When we believe Jesus as our Lord and Savior, you know, God is like this vessel. You know, if I keep this, if I keep this egg under this vessel. Okay. It's like God is our protector. He protects us. He guards us from all harm and danger. He can say the verses in the Bible that talks about God's protection, that no harm will befall our tent. God protects us. He never even lets our foot to be to dash against the stone. So this vessel is like, you know, is God's protection. Now you can ask the children if I take the spoon and hit it on this vessel, will my egg break? What do you think? Yes. No. I take the spoon and hit it on this vessel with the egg underneath break. You can type your answers in the chat section. I'm asking you the class. No. It won't break. Exactly. So keep on hitting it. You know, keep on hitting it everywhere. Okay. But the egg does not break. Right. It's that you can remove it and show them that the egg is not broken. So say, same way. Similarly, you know, God is our protector. He protects us. He guards us. So even if Satan wants to come and attack us, you know, he cannot do any harm. He cannot bring about any danger. He cannot do anything with our lives because we have believed in Jesus. We've accepted Jesus and Jesus is our protector. He protects us and guards us. But there can be no sickness, no disease that come near us. Satan cannot put sickness and disease in our lives. But just imagine if you, you know, keep doing sins, you don't obey, you do, you watch dirty things, you say bad words. And you know, you do really filthy things. Then slowly, you know, God is going to, God is going to keep on telling you, but your teachers will remind you, your parents will correct you, but you don't want to heed correction. You don't want to listen. Then God will remove the protection. Okay. It's not because he wants to harm your life or he wants to teach you a lesson or say, okay, now I've removed the protection. Satan will come and he will destroy your life. And then you will know, you will learn a lesson. You learn it the hard way. No, it's not that because God removes this protection so that, you know, we realize our mistake because people have been telling us, God has been correcting us. The Holy Spirit has been telling us, parents, teachers, but we don't want to listen. We don't want to stop stealing or we don't want to stop cheating in class or we don't want to use, stop using bad words or back-counseling our parents. Then God removes the protection. You know, when God removes the protection, that's when Satan is ready to put sickness or disease or pain or suffering into our lives and God is not there to protect us. But the minute we go through all those pain and suffering, but Satan puts it in our lives, you know, and we go through pain, suffering, we are broken, disappointed. That's when we realize we cry out to God, we say, God, please forgive me. The minute we do that, we have a loving, gracious, compassionate and forgiving God who again protects us, who restores us, who helps us and who guides us. So a very simple way of just explaining to them, even you can use this object lesson even for temptation, how Satan tempts us and how God, you know, has promised that he will help us overcome temptation. Some other object lessons that you can use are, you know, children are always comparing themselves with others. They think, you know, God, if they're not good in studies, if they're not talented, if they feel that they're not good looking, then they feel, you know, God does not love them or God does not like them. So you can use gems, you know, gems, right? The chocolate, the sweet gems that we eat, it has different colors. So you can blindfold a child and you can tell them that I'm going to put something in your mouth. I'm going to put three things in your mouth and then you can tell me whether the taste is different. So you can show the class, but you tell the class that each time I show you the thing that I'm going to put in this person's mouth, you're not going to, you know, talk anything. You just have to keep quiet. Okay. So you take out a pink gems and you show it to the children and put it in the child's mouth. Ask the child to open it and put in the child's mouth and ask the child to eat. Then you show them the class, a yellow color gem, you know, which can resemble the pink one strawberry. The yellow can resemble a vanilla and you can put that in the child's mouth and get them to eat it. And you can ask them what's the first one different from the second thing that I put in your mouth. The child can say no. Some children will say yes. The third thing then you can use is, sorry, the yellow is banana flavor. And the third one you can use is a green gems, which will, you know, kind of resemble a vanilla flavor. Okay. So you can put it in or mint. You can just put it in their mouth and say, okay, now it's the third thing different from what I gave you the first time, the second time. Some children will say yes. Some children will say no. And then you can, you know, remove the blindfold from the child's eyes and you can show them. So the child what you'd given them that it is gems. And so you can tell the children that, you know, in gems, the inside content, is it the same or it's different for different colors? Are there different flavors or it's just one flavor? They'll say no, it's one flavor. It's not because it's pink, it's not strawberry flavor or it's yellow. It's not banana flavor or because it's gray, it's not great flavor, but everything has the same chocolate flavor inside. And so you can say, yes, that's exactly how God has made us. He's made each one of us to look very, very different. Some of us have straight hair, some of us are curly hair, some of us are short, some of us are tall, some of us are, you know, fair skin. Some of us have brown skin, dark skin, yellow skin, you know, so we're all God has made us all different. Just imagine children, if the gems had all the same color, would it have been attractive or exciting for us to eat it? No, why does it make it more exciting for us to eat it? It's because of the different colors. And then you can tell them just like each gem has the same content, chocolate flavor, same amount, the same quantity, the same flavor, the same taste, everything is the same. The same way God has given each one of us, you know, different talents, but he's made us all equal in his sight. He's not given some of them, you know, great talents, some of us less talents. He's not made some of us good looking, some of us ugly looking, nobody's ugly because he's created us all perfect. So just a simple gem scan, reiterate the truth to the children. Another thing that we could use is an apple. You know, when we take an apple, usually we cut the apple this way, right? Right down. But if you slice it, so you tell the children, how do you take this apple and cut it with a knife? They say we cut it down like this. What do you find in the center? They will say seeds. Now if I take this apple and I dice it down the center, cut it into two equal halves. Okay. If you open it, what do we see? Any of you cut an apple or dice it in the center? Write down through anyone? Yes. No. Yes. Okay. Say that. What do you see in the middle when you open it out? Seeds. Yes. What else? Actually, if you cut it, dice it down in the center, you will find a star shaped on each side in the center. There'll be a star shape and there will be seeds inside that star shape. So when you cut it out for the children and you'll say, did you ever see the star shaped inside this apple? And they'll be shocked. They'll say, no, we've never seen it. Why? Because you've always cut the apple this way, right? So you can say, just like we didn't know that there is a star inside this, you know, this apple, you know, God has placed a star in each one of us. Now, what do we mean by star? Star is not that he's put us, you know, star from the skies, put it inside us. No, he's placed in each one of us a unique special talent. Each one of us have a unique special talent God has given us. Now, some of us don't know the talents because we're always looking at other people's talents or we're thinking that we're useless and hopeless and good for nothing. And so we're not able to see the talent, but God has placed a unique talent in each one of you. So you can ask God what is a talent or he will show it to you and you can make use of that unique talent and you can be good or great like anyone else around you. Okay. Last object lesson. I can show you or two more I'll do is, you know, when you're teaching children that, you know, if you continue sinning in in one area of your life if you continually say, say you're going to keep on cheating in class. So you're continually going to keep on stealing in class, then that is going to become, you know, a strong hold that that sin is not going to leave you it's difficult to break free from that. So you can have a child come up in front some children who like to learn by interpersonal relationships or just moving around just walking around children who learn by seeing can bring them up and then you can ask them to, you know, put their hands like this, and you can ask them to, you know, just tie their hands around with a thread. Once you tie it around with a thread and you ask them to break free, you know, once they do this, the thread will automatically come out. But if you, you know, you keep on again, you know, tying that thread around their wrist, you know, make it strong and then ask them to break free. They will find it very, very difficult to break free. So you can teach children that, you know, this is one way that, you know, we know that, you know, the moment you sin or you cheat or you copy or you tell a lie, you ask God for forgiveness. You don't do it again, you're able to break free. But if you're not, you know, you continue keeping on doing the same since that same sin is going to become like a bondage or stronghold, and you will not be able to break free from that. Okay. Then your last object lesson I would like to show you there are many more you can use is a whistle. Okay, I'm going to blow this. So let me just reduce this volume so it's not too loud for all of you. Okay. So you're talking about conscience and you're saying that, you know, the Holy Spirit is there inside you. He, you know, he tells you when you're doing wrong. So you can say the Holy Spirit is like this person. He's not the whistle like this whistle. So, you know, you can just blow. So you can say, you know, every time you do something wrong, it's like, you know, the Holy Spirit will tell you that it is wrong. But if you don't listen to the Holy Spirit second time you do the same thing, the Holy Spirit will remind you again. But this time the voice will be a little softer. The third time you don't listen and you still keep doing it, you know, the voice will become much more softer. The fifth time, sixth time. And then you will not be able to hear the Holy Spirit speaking to you because your sin has overtaken you. You know, your sin has kind of made you, your conscience dead to that part of you. And so you continue sinning in that even though you know it's wrong, you cannot give up that habit. That's why people who smoke or drink or those terrorists who keep on killing people do it because they have not been listening to their conscience. So you tell the children how important it is to listen to their conscience. Every time their conscience tells them they have done something wrong to ask God for forgiveness or when the Holy Spirit speaks to them, ask God for forgiveness and don't do it because if they do it, then it will become like a stronghold and you can use that thread object lesson to bring home the truth. Okay. So this is what you could use object lessons for. Okay, you can use this even when you're preaching your teaching and you're doing Bible study, but object lessons are very effective for children. And anytime in the future when they look at these objects, they will be reminded of the truth that you have taught them. Okay, so we've finished the main introduction part introduction, you can use attention getters or object lesson. Then you go on to the main teaching content and I said for the main teaching content, it's important that you write down, you know, not only for teaching content, you write down your entire lesson, what you're going to do. So when you're writing down the lesson, you will, you know, come across things, some big words. You can simplify that, you know, it's important to keep the language simple for children. All of us who teach children are adults. And, you know, we tend to sometimes when we're teaching children, we tend to speak to them like we are speaking to another adult or we tend to teach them like we are teaching another adult, but we need to understand that they are children. So when you're writing the lesson plan, you know, you will come across some difficult words, and you make sure that you replace it with simple words because if you use unfamiliar or big words to children which they may they may not understand, they will not be able to catch what you are teaching or explaining them. So keep the language simple. For example, if you're talking about the prodigal son, you can say, you know, prodigal son, they will not understand what is the meaning of prodigal in the first place. Then you will talk about, you know, the, the, he took his inheritance. He asked his father for his inheritance. They'll be wondering what is inheritance. He took his share of the property. Some children will not understand what a share of property. And then he went and spent it all in loose living. Now they will no understand what is loose living. They only know their clothes are loose or the shoe is loose, you know, whatever. So you need to, when you're writing down all of these words, you need to come make it simpler. You can think about, okay, how can I replace these difficult words with simple ways that they can understand what is a better word? How can I explain it to them? That is why it's important for you to write down the lesson plan. So keep the language simple. For example, you know, you're talking about Joseph story, which is a very story, which is a narrative, which, you know, everyone tells children. So you say Pharaoh, they'll be wondering, they will understand who Pharaoh is, famine, they might not understand what's famine is straw, plague. So it's important that you, when you're writing, you'll come across all these words, try to find similar words or simple ways you can teach them or help them to understand these words. Even when you're talking about creation, which is a very familiar narrative, which we tell children, you can tell children that, you know, the serpent or the snake came and spoke to Eve. They're wonder, the snake never speaks. You know, how can the snake speak? So how are you going to explain to the children? Who is the snake? Who is the serpent? Why did the snake come in? Why did the devil come in the form of a snake to speak to Eve? So all of these things are very important. And you will know these things that need to be explained only when you write them. So the importance of writing the lesson plan. The other thing that we as adults use when we are teaching children is, especially when we're teaching the main teaching content is, you know, we use Christian jargons. Now, Christian jargons like, you know, we are made righteous in God's sight, we are redeemed, we are sanctified, we are sinners, we are saved by grace through faith. The blood of Jesus cleanses us, you know, God's covenant with us, the Lord's supper communion. Now, they will not understand all of these phrases, sanctified, redeemed, justified. I'm sure some of us also will not be able to explain it as, you know, ourselves as adults. So it's important that when you write a lesson plan, you know, you if you stick to that lesson plan, you speak what is in that you will not use all of these Christian jargons. But if you want to use it, you will think about how I'm going to explain to them what is redemption, what is justification, what is righteousness, what is sanctification, how the blood of Jesus cleanses us. Children only know when blood comes out, it's like, oh, it's devastating, it's painful, it's like a cut or it's scary, you know, so how the blood of Jesus cleanses us. They only know water cleanses them, but not the blood of Jesus. So how are you going to explain all of these things is important for you to write it down. So when you write it down, you know, you know, you spot all these words, then you know how to explain it. You can think how to explain it, write down the explanation as well so that you don't transgress into other areas, keep it simple, short and sweet. Then replace those words with simpler words which children can remember. Also, when you are trying to explain these Christian jargons or, you know, you're trying to explain the main truth of the lesson, it's important that you write it down so that you know the age group that you're teaching. You cannot explain righteousness the same way you explained to a child in grade two and a child who's in grade eight or a child of grade 10. So writing it down will help you simplify it. These children will understand this, they're grade four, they're grade five, they're able to understand this. So you will keep it very short and sweet and you know how to explain it with regard to the age group. The third thing when you're writing the main teaching content is the goal of a children's church minister. I call all of our teachers in children's church as not teachers but I call them children's church ministers because it just reminds them of their importance, their position that they are ministering to the Lord. And so it's so important what they are doing and it's important that they come well prepared, pray, come, you know, even as they are spending their time learning from God, walking in God's ways so that they can minister effectively. So the goal of a children's church minister or a Sunday school teacher is not just to narrate a Bible narrative or a Bible incident to the children but it is to teach them deeper truths or deeper theology. Okay, so get into deeper things. For example, if you're teaching them creation, you can say, you know, how many days God created the world children, he created it in six days, seventh day he rested. The first day you know what he created he said let there be light and there was light. Isn't that wonderful children? You know what he created on the second day and then you can go on for each day. But then you can get them into a little more deeper theology and say, you know, how did God create all of this? How did the light come to being when he said, you know, let there be light. How did the light come into existence? You know, the children can say he said, yes, so he used his words and then you can talk about the importance of God's word or how powerful God's word is. And you can say when God speaks or he declares something, declares means when he says he wants something to happen, it will come about, it will happen just the way it is, it will come into existence. That means it will come into being. So everything we see in creation was created just by God's word. He spoke it and it came into being. And then you're talking about Adam and Eve, how they were created. So you can say, you know, God created Adam and Eve in his image and likeness children. Is it that wonderful? So they will think images, you know, exactly how they look in the mirror. You know, so they'll think that, okay, we are like God. But then you can explain to them, you know, what do we mean by God creating us in his image and likeness? Now God is spirit. He does not have a human body like us. So what do, how do we understand this word? God created us in his image and likeness. That means God is holy. He created Adam and Eve holy. God is without sin. He has not committed any sin. He does not do any sin. He created Adam and Eve to be without sin or he created them without any sin. God does not die. He created Adam and Eve never to die. You know, God has a mind. He plans things. He gave us a mind so that we can understand him. We can know what he's telling us and asking us to do. You know, God has a will. He does what he plans. He purposes. He wills. He also gave us a will. That's why we choose, you know, sometimes we choose good things. Sometimes we choose bad things like Adam and Eve. They chose the wrong thing and they were like God. But now they became like Satan. Everything bad entered into this world. And then you can talk about all of those things. So, you see, when we are trying to explain these things, we can, you know, when you're writing it down, we can think about how to simply explain and bring about more deeper theological truths into the lesson. For example, you're talking about blind man Bartimius and you finished telling the story and you said Jesus said your faith has healed you and immediately Bartimius was able to see. So you can ask them, what is faith? You know, faith is you don't see, but yet you believe. So why did Jesus appreciate or, you know, pat Bartimius for his faith? Because Bartimius was blind. He could not see. He's never seen Jesus do even one miracle. But even though nobody was willing to help him to get to Jesus, even though he could not get himself to Jesus, even though he's never seen any miracles Jesus has done, but he had the faith. Okay, faith is that when we don't see, but yet we believe. So his faith, you know, got him to cry out to Jesus and Jesus says, your faith has healed you. So very simple way you can bring about what is faith. That faith is important for us to receive healing. God likes us to have faith in him, trust in him and believe in him. Okay, so these are small theological truths that you can bring about and explain to the students. Okay, I'll just end this class with another example with David. You know, when David went to fight against the Goliath, he tells him in, it's given to us in 1 Samuel, chapter 17 verse 45, he says, you come against me with spear and sword and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, you have to fight. So you can say, children, imagine David is a small boy, he's going to fight this Goliath who has this huge sword who's a good warrior who has a spear. He can just put the spear and it can kill David. He has, you know, a javelin that he can throw at him and he can kill David. But David says, I've not come with any weapon to fight the battle, but I've come in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. So you see children, God's name, Jesus' name is so powerful. When we speak the name of Jesus, the Bible says that even the devils get scared and it runs away, flees away. You know, when you speak the name of Jesus, you know, it can bring us healing. When you speak the name of Jesus, it can give us peace of mind. It can bring back whatever we have studied. Remember what we have studied. The name of Jesus can help us to overcome our weakness of cheating or copying or using backwards or fighting with others. So you're just teaching them the importance of the name of Jesus. So it's important that when we narrate stories to get into a little theological truth based on the age group and explain it to them so that they will be able to better understand and apply what they have learned and know God in a more stronger, in a more intimate way. Okay. So I'll end class here. Thank you all for joining class. The next class that is next Monday is the last class for Children's Ministry. And from March 1st onwards, March and April, you will have Pastor Roshan Johannes take Youth Ministry for y'all. So the next class is my last class for y'all. And I'll discuss with y'all next class when I'm going to give you the two assessments that I have planned for this year. Do one in maybe in the mid-March and another one in the beginning of April. Okay. Thank you all for joining class. Have a blessed day and a blessed week ahead. God bless everyone. Thank you. Thank you.