Flashpoint - what's inside

A nice little Christian object lesson
- what's inside that counts-  See below

We had Flashpoint on Sunday.

- what's inside that counts-

A nice little Christian object lesson
1. Air inside
Bowl of bubble mixture (From Target / K-Mart etc)
Use a drinking straw to blow bubbles.  The bubbles are full of air.

Throw on a match - Nothing happens - No energy.
Boring !

2. Propane Bubbles
In hindsight maybe better to use 2 bowls.
One bubbles of air
the other bubbles of propane.
Side by side - They look the same.



Safety - Notice the rope on the ground.  The kids all sit behind that so they don't get singed eyebrows and so they can all see.

I used a couple of 14yo's to do the demo.  Gives them a way to participate and enjoy.  Even better would have been to get them to talk about what it means.

But it is what is inside that makes the difference.
Throw a match on each.  The ones full of air do nothing.  The ones full of propane erupt. Energy, exciting.

Unless something has changed, Christians look like everyone else but they have God's spirit within.

The nice little Christian parallel is  that the ones with Propane in them are like a person with God's holy spirit inside them.



Hopefully that energy is channelled into something nice / useful / spiritual

This is the modified propane torch.  I added some black hose.  The way this all works is that the propane goes past a couple of air holes in the brass bit (dark brown bit before the black extension).  That mixes the air with the propane.  No air = No oxygen = no nice orange fire.

Without the black extension, the bubbles bubble up and block the air holes and stuff up the propane - air mixing process.  The black hose was some scrap in ground watering hose that was lying around.

Flashpoint 27-03-2011 - Woman at Well. Spiritual water

Had a great flashpoint today.
Based on the bible reading John 4:5-42
The basic message we had was that just as our body needs physical water so to our soul needs spiritual water to refresh it.

Sang some songs including Jesus is a Cool dude with Dand and Jemma on Jembay.

We had a "well" as a focul point as you can see beside Natty in the first photo but the difficulty was no water so we dug another.

Here you can see Jesus and the woman "in costume".





Later the well became infested with small boys and those who wished to get wtaer from the well had to use some of it to wash out those boys.
The astitute among you will also notice a "milk bottle cross" at the bottom of the well.  We also found two wheel barrows and lots of old pieces of wood and some red letters that spelt the words "turn it up"

Science Experiment 1
Before the kids arrived, put some water and blue food colouring in a tray and let it soak up into a paper towel.  When the kids arrived did the one on the left.

The analogy is that the paper sucks up the water like our soul sucks up the living water Jesus talks about in the bible reading.

This is a pretty slow experiment so we then did the balloon experiment while this one did it's thing.

 Hold a balloon above a flame and it pops as this boy discovered.  You can see a flash of pink at the left of the picture.

 Put some water in the balloon and it does not pop.  We even had the balloon toch the flame and there were black smoke marks on this balloon after.

As with all of these demo's there is always the chance that something will go wrong and I made a comment to that effect.  Cameron helpfully suggested I should "have faith"