Object: A paper bag and bunch of fruit - a dozen apples or oranges or anything that a child would have trouble holding in his hands.

Good morning, boys and girls. How much are you worth? Has anyone ever asked you how much you are worth? [Let them answer.] It isn’t the kind of question that very many people ask one another, but people like to know how much they are worth to other people. Sometimes we think we are worth a lot to some people and not very much to others. There was a man who came to Jesus one day and asked him to heal his servant. The servant must have been very good to him because the man who was asking was very important to most people. Yet when he asked Jesus to heal his servant he did not think that he was worth very much to Jesus.

I suppose that a lot of us who know Jesu…