Life is full of ups and downs, mountains and valleys, depressions and mountaintop experiences, difficulties and triumphs.

1. Object Lesson
- Yo-Yo’s
Life is full of ups and downs, mountains and
valleys, depressions and mountaintop
experiences, difficulties and triumphs.
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2. Materials
2 or 3 yo-yos
Objective
Life is full of ups and downs, mountains and valleys,
depressions and mountaintop experiences, difficulties
and triumphs.
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3. Activity
• Invite someone skilled with a yo-yo to give a
demonstration.
• And/ Or have a yo-yo competition and invite all
who have yo-yo’s to bring them to the meeting.
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4. Application
• Each yo-yo looks a little different, but all yo-yos are
made the same way.
• Hold up a dangling yo-yo, string unwound. This string is
attached to a post inside the yo-yo. When you hold on
to your string and drop your yo-yo, the yo-yo spins up
and down the string.
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5. • This yo-yo reminds me of the Christian life. God
puts us down on earth. (Spin the yo-yo down.) We
spin around for awhile, but eventually we need
God’s power to keep on spinning. (Take the yo-yo
up). Like the string, we are connected to God by
prayer and worship.
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6. • Even though we’re on earth, God wants us to aim for
the things in heaven. God wants us to remember
that we belong to him. If we run out of strength
down here (let the yo-yo stop its spin), God reaches
down and gathers us back up (wind the yo-yo up).
And one day God will take us up to heaven to be
with him forever.
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7. • In the meantime, as Christian yo-yos we
keep spinning around, living on earth (spin
the yo-yo down), but always connected to
God up in heaven (take the yo-yo up).
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