A little boy was in church one Sunday morning with his grandmother. Everything went well until it was time for the offering. The grandmother began to frantically search through her purse, but she couldn’t find her offering envelope. Apparently she had left it at home. It was a most embarrassing moment for her as she kept looking through her purse for something to put in the collection plate.

Her grandson sensed her dilemma. The little boy had a solution to her problem. “Here, Gramma,” he told her, “you take my quarter and put it in, and I’ll hide under the seat!” (1)

Children learn from watching adults. That is how they determine what is important in life. Wayne Barrett says that the first time he ever saw a fifty-dollar bill was in a church offering plate. This was years ago when fifty …