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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