The tower

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An object lesson that I have used to teach Sunday School children (and
it works good with adults too) about "one spirit in you all" starts by
my talking about how God has made all of us.  As I talk, I fold a
piece of newspaper and take a pair of scissors and cut out a set of
paper dolls so that they are attached at the hands and feet.  Then I
unfold the dolls and show all the "people" God has made.  

I then fold them back up and Talk about the Word being sharper than a
2 edged sword.  I next pick up the scissors again and show they have 2
edges.  I fold the dolls in half one more time, so that the middle of
the dolls' bodies is on the edge of the fold.  I then proceed to cut
out half of a heart shape, causing a heart shaped hole to be cut in
the body of each doll.  I again unfold the dolls and show that there
is an empty spot in the heart of each one of them.  

I finally fold the dolls back up, omiting the fold through the heart.
I take the "2 edged sword" of the scissors and poke it into the hole
formed by all the hearts of all the dolls.  I then talk about the Holy
Ghost being "Christ within you, the hope of glory", and how the Word
is Christ, so they graphically see that His one Spirit can be in all
of us at the same time, even though we are separate individuals.

The way this works, of couse, is that the dolls are 2 dimensional, but
I am manipulating them in 3-space, which lets this "magic" work.

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