I've known this trick for years, the ever so famous Crazy Man's Handcuffs. It can be performed anywhere anytime with just 2 commonly found rubber bands. Though many layman already know the secret of how it's done, but not many take the time to practice & perform it, and so many had forgotten about it after some time.
I've seen the Reverse Crazy Man's Handcuffs performed by 2 magicians long ago, ST Tang & Priscilla Khong, but I had never really practice it much as I find the moves more difficult than the original one, thus my moves are still rather slow with the reverse part. Nevertheless, I love the fact that it can be performed very much impromptu, thus I thought it'd be great if I can apply a Gospel message to it, thus I've been trying to come up with a suitable Gospel Application to it and here's my attempt.
And here's my patter:
Here is a rubber band, representing each & everyone of us, individually.
And we all know very well that everyone of us had done some wrong deeds at some point in our lives. And we call these wrong deeds "SIN".
Whenever we sin, we are trapped as sinners, and there's no escaping from it. And the wages of sin is death.
And death is often represented by bleeding (or shedding of blood), thus that is where sacrificial ceremonies came about when mankind slaughter animals to try to favor God to release themselves from their sin.
But these sacrifices only dismisses them temporarily. And so they are prone to sin and be trapped again very easily.
Then God came up with the best plan to help release us from sin forever with the ultimate sacrificial ceremony.
This is when Lord Jesus Christ came.
He sacrifices Himself on the cross to save all of us. Forever.
But under 1 condition… If only we believe in His salvation and let Him be our Savior...
Anyway, magicians equip themselves with impromptu magic tricks so they can perform anytime anywhere with any object available. So it'd be good as disciples of Christ to be able to readily share Gospel anytime anywhere too. And studies had proven that object lessons or visual lessons are very effective and impacting in passing a message across. Please feel free to use this idea to share Gospel.
If you don't know how the trick is done, simply Google "Crazy Man's Handcuffs" & you can easily get lots of references... I'm sure it would be a good trick to equip yourself with for your future mission trips. Never mind if you do not know how to do the Reverse Crazy Man's Handcuffs, just casually put the rubber bands back in interlocked positions again & continue from there. But please make sure you practice well before you try to perform it. ;)
