Ask “How many apples can you get out of just one apple?” and show them an apple.

Make sure you get a number out of them.  Don't let them get away with an answer like "Lots".  Most people don’t know or have a really poor guess.

• Then ask them “How many apples do you think was on the tree that this apple came from?”
• Then prompt them for another go at the question. Most work out how many seeds they think are in the apple and guess that they could have that many trees.  Then they may multiply that by the number of apples that they guessed was on the original tree.

After a reasonable time prompt them in this line of thought:

• What would happen if you planted all of those seeds and they too all grew into trees? How many apples would you then have from this one apple?
• Wait – what if you then took all of those apples on those trees and planted their seeds? How many trees then? How many apples would you get then?
• What is stopping you from taking all of those apples and planting their seeds? In a few generations, how many apples would you end up with?  Would you end up with a forest of trees all with apples?

This apple could be YOU! 

• If you showed someone Christ and they believed, what would happen if you taught them to share Jesus with others?
• What would happen if they then shared Jesus with all of their friends and relatives and taught them to also share?

Just like the apple, one would multiply into an incredible number in not much time at all!

We have to stop thinking like us and start to think the way God thinks!