Use wheat kernels and a chessboard to teach the idea of a little faith growing into something very big.

1. Children’s
Sermon -
Checkerboard
Faith
Use wheat kernels and
a chessboard to teach
the idea of a little faith
growing into
something very big.
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Introduction
Use wheat kernels and a chessboard
to teach the idea of a little faith
growing into something very big.

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Materials Needed
• Wheat kernels. If you can’t find
wheat, sunflower seeds, peas, or
just about any other seeds will
substitute.
• The volume would still be
significant.
• A checkerboard or chess board

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Description
Seeds and doubling or used to show
how faith, though it starts out small
can grow to be very large.
Preparation
Set up a checker board with grains of
wheat according to the story

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What to Do
With the checkerboard on display with
the grains of wheat, tell the children this
story:
Some time ago there was a display at the
museum of Science and industry in
Chicago. It featured a checkerboard with
1 grain of wheat on the first square, 2 on
the second, 4 on the third, and
8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc. A few squares
down the board there were so many
grains of wheat they couldn’t fit on one
square. Above the display was this
question: “At this rate of doubling every
square, how much grain would you have
on the checkerboard by the time you
reached the 64th square?”

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Ask children how much grain they
think that would be?
After they provide a few ideas, give
them the answer: “Enough grain to
cover the entire subcontinent of
India 50 feet deep.”

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Application
Our faith may start out small, but
as God uses it, the end result can
be very large! The boy’s small lunch
offered to Jesus fed a Multitude.
Elijah use a small jar of flour and oil
to feel a woman and her son
through a famine. David, a small
boy, was used by God to defeat a
giant. The Bible is full of stories in
which God used a little faith in Him
to do great things!

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