Fresh Bread (Sermon Illustration)
Stale bread tastes terrible. But there is not much better than fresh bread.
Our faith is the same way. If we do not keep it fresh, it will soon go stale. Regular time with Christ through reading His Word keeps our faith fresh.
Wayne Cordeiro explains it this way:
Molokai is not the island most visitors choose when they’re contemplating a Hawaiian vacation. Perhaps they should. Especially if they, like me, love fresh bread.
I get to visit Molokai every so often. Whenever I do, I make it a point to stop by the Kanemitsu Bakery. I don’t mean I stop in at my convenience… I, along with a dozen others, will stand in an adjacent alley at midnight. Within an hour, a long line quiet up behind a weathered door, catching the most alluring aromas wafting out into the starry night.
Fresh bead. Ah! There’s nothing like it in the world. Just the smell of it can embolden you to brave this dark Molokai alley in the middle of the night.
At a given time, an employee will open the door, spilling light and more fragrant aroma into the alleyway He surveys the nocturnal parade and asks the first few in line, “What kind of bread would you like to order?” …
Every night thirty of more people will line up in the alley, each awaiting their share of fresh bead… All over the globe, hungry people are being drawn to fresh bread… but a slightly different kind of bread. This one feeds hungry hearts. This bread is the life of the world.
Fresh bread—the Bread of Life— fills our gaping holes. It answers the questions of our soul and satisfied the emptiness of our heart.[1]
[1] Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor (Bloomington, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2007), 113-114.
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