What happens after you die?
Buy or borrow a standard household S-bend for a bathroom sink, I used to live in a run-down student house with a non-functioning outdoor sink - which saved me all of 80 pence, but otherwise remember not run the sink without the plumbing. <P>
Tell everyone that you have had problems with your toilet and you wonder if anyone can tell if it is blocked. <P>
You can oÂnly see a quarter  of the tube at each end, so there is no way of knowing if there is a blockage in the middle. <P>
Explain already that as someone this side of heaven we coud not tell whether anything happens after you die, or whether death is just the end. <P>
Ask: how can we tell if there is a way through and therefore past the obstruction? Answer: you have to put something through it. A table-tennis ball or similar will suffice for this illustration, although you could have a very complex arrangement of several S-bends, arranged at right angles, which would make getting the ball through a lot more of a challenge. <P>
I used this to lead into a talk about how Jesus’s ressurection showed us that there is a way through death to everlasting life.
