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

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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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