 Now, having served as a pastor myself and having tried to reproduce this object lesson myself, I realized that to do this, Pastor Dwayne would have had to practice because it's one thing to come up with an idea for an object lesson in your head, and it's another thing to pull it off in real time to create some of that magic that makes a message like this memorable for a nine-year-old. 37-some years later, when I think about that object lesson,