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

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- 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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