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Use ten bananas as an example of a family's income received for work done (salary). Explain to the children that you are going to prepare a "budget" with the banana payment, much like Mom and Dad would do with their money.
Explain: "We need to pay for the house (3 bananas), pay for the car (2 bananas), pay for clothing -- you need a pair of jeans & a pair of Michael Jordan shoes (2 bananas), pay for Christian schooling (1 banana), and we have a payment to make on that vacation trip we're planning to take (1 banana)."
Say: "I've got one banana left and I'm hungry. Let's just share this with our little group. We didn't budget anything for food, and you know as well as I do that bananas are good to eat." (Share the banana.)
In surprise: "Oh oh!! We forgot something. We didn't think of something that we should have thought about. What did we forget?"
"We didn't give anything to God."
Let's review again. We received our money for work in the ten bananas. We paid 3 bananas for our house, 2 for the car, 2 for clothing, one for Christian school payment, and one for our vacation trip. We had one left over and we bought something for ourselves -- food. We forgot to give something to God.
All we have are the leftovers - the peeling of our one banana. I guess that is what we will give to God. But God does not want leftovers. He wants our firstfruits.
If we are going to give of our firstfruits, we will take care to give our gift first to God and then worry about the other things we need to take care of.
Do the count again, beginning with one for God (church?), then help the children decide on the rest of the distribution.
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