Juggling Jim

   ***View the video on how to juggle.  Instead of learning with balls, I would suggest using scarves.  You can buy very light weight and see through material at Walmart.  According to the story you'll need one red, one yellow and one blue one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8QfqkSPxmo

Once upon a time not too long ago, there was a happy go lucky man named Jim (or Jane if a lady).  Jim just roamed around going from place to place without too much direction in his life.  Then one day he met a juggler who asked him if he could juggle.  “Why no I can’t,” answered Jim.  The juggler asked him if he would like to learn and of course Jim said, “Yes.”  So the juggler gave him a set of scarves and a little book.  (Show the book.)  Its title was Everything You Need to Know About Juggling.”  (I just made it out of a few small pieces of folded paper that looked like a small book.  The title was written with a marker on the front.)  So Jim took the book and read it and he found it to be very interesting.  He discovered three very important things about juggling. 

First, you begin by tossing one scarf from one hand to the other in an arch shape without looking at your hands.  Instead you always look at the top of the arch. 

Secondly, you put one scarf in both hands.  Throw up one scarf and once it gets to its highest position in the arch you throw up the second scarf under it while making an X with your arms. 

Thirdly, you hold two scarves in one hand.  When you begin to juggle you have to raise one finger releasing only one scarf while holding the other.  Then you proceed to juggle, juggle and juggle like this.  (Demonstrate exactly how easy it is done.)  Well our story continues with Jim going around the country juggling.  In fact, he juggled so much that he became known as Juggling Jim (or Jane).  

Then one day a preacher came along while Jim was doing and he was very impressed.  “So how did you learn to juggle,” the preacher asked.  “Learned it from a little book,” Jim offered.  Then the preacher asked Jim if he had ever heard of a man named Jesus Christ and he answered, “No.”  So the preacher witnessed to Jim and before he left him he gave him a little book to read.  Guess what the title of the book was?  That’s right it was a Bible.  (Show them a little New Testament.)  So Jim took the book and read it and he found it to be very interesting.  He discovered three very important things. 

First, he learned that he was a sinner on his way to an awful place called hell. 

 Secondly, he learned that there was a man named Jesus, God’s only Son, who bled and died on an old rugged cross to save Jim from his sins. 

Thirdly, he discovered that if he confessed and repented of his sins and asked Jesus into his heart and soul as Lord and Savior, Jesus would forgive him.  Jesus would cleanse him from all his sins.  And Jesus would become his closest and dearest friend who would be with him through the highs and lows (juggle high and low) of life and would someday take him to his home in heaven for all eternity.  

Wow what a change there was in his life.  Now he not only went around juggling but he used it as a means of telling others about Jesus Christ.  How?  Well he only juggled with three colors which were red, yellow and blue.  One day someone asked him, “Hey Jim, why do you only use those three colors?” to which he replied, “The red represents the blood of Jesus Christ who saved me from my sins.  The yellow reminds me never to be yellow or afraid to share the good news with others and the blue is what I am at the end of the day if I haven’t told someone about Christ.”

 

Do you know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?  If not you could right here, right now.  All you’ve got to do is ask Him into your heart.  He’s waiting for an invitation.  LET’S PRAY!!!!

BONUS:
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LESAYdYSI097gl3WFJXBLkLXI9-6e9xopHd86l-Ldj0/edit?usp=sharing
You'll find a book cover for Juggling Jim's juggling book.