The Clean Plate Club
Children's sermon
The Giant Book Of Children's Sermons
Matthew To Revelation
Object: bread crumbs
Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you are good eaters? (let them answer) Do a lot of you belong to the clean plate club? (let them answer) If I came to your house and ate dinner with you, would I find anything left on your plate? (direct your question to a clean plate club member) You mean that I would not find even a crumb of food left somewhere around where you eat? (let them answer) Not many of us eat all of the crumbs. When one of your parents cleans up the table after each meal, he or her usually must take a cloth and wipe off all the crumbs that are left behind. Crumbs, bread crumbs, are something that we hardly even see.
A long time ago, people would clean up the dining table by sweeping all of the bread crumbs onto the floor. Then the dogs would eat everything that fell on the floor. Things were different then than they are now, but I am sure that you have seen a dog look all over the floor for anything that might have fallen by accident. They eat almost everything that falls to the floor.
Jesus had a kind of funny thing happen to him one day with a woman from another country who had been following him. This woman had a daughter who was very sick. She heard about Jesus and the things that he could do for sick people. She was not of the same nationality as Jesus, and foreigners were not well liked by most people. But she wanted her sick daughter to be healed. She began to ask Jesus for help, and he listened to her, but he also tested her. She asked for help and Jesus told her that he did not give his bread to foreigners. But she didn't give up. She wanted help for her daughter and she knew that a doctor from her country was not the answer. Jesus looked right at her while she thought about what she was going to say and then she said it. She told Jesus to pretend that she was just a dog because even a dog was allowed to eat the crumbs that fell on the floor. She was positive that Jesus could help, and even a little bit of help would be enough to cure her daughter. Jesus admired her faith in him and helped her immediately.
That is the story of Jesus and the bread crumbs. It doesn't take much of Jesus' power to solve our problems if we only bring our problems to him to solve.
So the next time you see some bread crumbs, I want you to think about the day that a woman was willing to compare herself to a dog so that she could get some help from Jesus to cure her daughter.
Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you are good eaters? (let them answer) Do a lot of you belong to the clean plate club? (let them answer) If I came to your house and ate dinner with you, would I find anything left on your plate? (direct your question to a clean plate club member) You mean that I would not find even a crumb of food left somewhere around where you eat? (let them answer) Not many of us eat all of the crumbs. When one of your parents cleans up the table after each meal, he or her usually must take a cloth and wipe off all the crumbs that are left behind. Crumbs, bread crumbs, are something that we hardly even see.
A long time ago, people would clean up the dining table by sweeping all of the bread crumbs onto the floor. Then the dogs would eat everything that fell on the floor. Things were different then than they are now, but I am sure that you have seen a dog look all over the floor for anything that might have fallen by accident. They eat almost everything that falls to the floor.
Jesus had a kind of funny thing happen to him one day with a woman from another country who had been following him. This woman had a daughter who was very sick. She heard about Jesus and the things that he could do for sick people. She was not of the same nationality as Jesus, and foreigners were not well liked by most people. But she wanted her sick daughter to be healed. She began to ask Jesus for help, and he listened to her, but he also tested her. She asked for help and Jesus told her that he did not give his bread to foreigners. But she didn't give up. She wanted help for her daughter and she knew that a doctor from her country was not the answer. Jesus looked right at her while she thought about what she was going to say and then she said it. She told Jesus to pretend that she was just a dog because even a dog was allowed to eat the crumbs that fell on the floor. She was positive that Jesus could help, and even a little bit of help would be enough to cure her daughter. Jesus admired her faith in him and helped her immediately.
That is the story of Jesus and the bread crumbs. It doesn't take much of Jesus' power to solve our problems if we only bring our problems to him to solve.
So the next time you see some bread crumbs, I want you to think about the day that a woman was willing to compare herself to a dog so that she could get some help from Jesus to cure her daughter.
