Exegetical Aim: The most expensive gift given is not a determinant of the one who has made the greatest sacrifice.

Prop: 35 one-dollar bills, two pennies, and an offering plate. Keep the offering plate behind you. You might ask one of the ushers to participate by bringing out the offering plate and taking up the offering. Be prepared yourself to give this thirty five dollars to the church because the kids will be placing it in the offering plate and you very well cannot take it out once you have put it in.

Lesson: Good morning! (response) I have some money to give you this morning. Hold out all the ones. Make a production of it. Don’t show the pennies. Count out each dollar as you hand them out. Indiscriminately give 20, 10, 5, and the two pennies to four individuals. First person: Ok, h…