Objects: Paper foil and a potato.

Good morning, boys and girls. I want to teach you a lesson this morning that every Christian must learn if he is ever going to be called a follower of Jesus. This lesson is so important that Jesus taught the disciples about it not once or twice, but many times. The lesson is called humility. Humility means being humble. Now how many here this morning know what I am talking about? Some of you do. Tell me what you think being humble means. [Wait for some answers.]

Those are pretty good answers. It isn't easy being humble, or learning to be humble, but it is so important that I am going to show you something that will help you remember what it means. Do you know what I have in my hand? [Hold up the potato.] That's right, a potato. How many of you like potat…