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Bread of Life Talk
Bread
I suppose that every disco you go to these days has flashing color lights. Have you ever thought what light does? (Draw in filament to the Light Bulb.) It seems to dispel darkness, it shows you what is around you and where you are going. It helps you relax and calms your fear. When Robert Louis Stevenson was a boy in Edinburgh he was fascinated by light and particularly by an old man who went around the streets with a ladder at dusk lighting up the street lamps.
Light of the World
One day his parents overheard him say "Look, look! There is a man out there PUNCHING HOLES IN THE DARKNESS." Jesus too punches holes in the darkness of our fear and lets the light of God pour into our lives. He said he came to be the LIGHT OF THE WORLD (fill in) (In addition you may tell the story of the blind man in John 9, as an illustration of the work of Jesus).
True Bread
Most of us have probably eaten some bread today. Perhaps you had some toast for breakfast or a sandwich for lunch. Bread has been called the "Staff of Life" because it is such a valuable part of our diet. Jesus called himself the TRUE BREAD (fill in) He wants to become a valuable part of our life - the "Staff of Life." During the Second World War, Brother Andrew, then one of a family of six, lived in constant gnawing hunger in Holland under the Nazi occupation. His family was so desperate they dug up tulip bulbs and ate them as potatoes. His mother went hungry and eventually fell ill because she starved herself so that the others might have enough.
Bread! Bread!
When at last the end of the war came, Dutch people flooded out into the streets rejoicing. "But I was not with them," Brother Andrew wrote. "I was running every step of the five miles to the Canadian encampment, where I was able to beg a small sack full of bread crusts. Bread! Quite literally the bread of life! I brought it home to my family with shouts of `Food! Food! Food! As Mama gnawed the dry crusts, tears of gratefulness to God rolled down the deep lines in her cheeks!" Jesus, the true bread, can give us the same satisfaction and joy when we trust in Him. (In addition you may tell the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand as an illustration of the work of Jesus. John 6)
Life and Death
During the reign of Queen Victoria, there was a fascination with death and dying much in the same way our own generation is preoccupied by sex. Everyone then talked about death, they made elaborate preparations for it - it intrigued them. Today we shun and fear death, but Jesus didn't! He said that he was the: LIFE (fill in) Resurrection and the Life. He had not only come to terms with death, but he had also conquered it. DEATH (cross out)
The Resurrection Plant
In the lush gardens of Florida they grow and sell a very strange dead-looking variety of fern called the "Resurrection Plant." In its cellophane bag, the dry dusty brown lump looks good for nothing except the garbage pail, but when it is placed in a bowl of water, a miracle takes place. From the brown dry clump uncurls the most delicate and beautiful ferny green leaves. It will stay dry and apparently dead for years, but with nourishment springs anew with lush green foliage.
Trust in Jesus
In the same way, those who trust the Lord Jesus can be sure that from the dust of death they will just as surely spring to vibrant resurrection life. (In addition you may tell the story of the raising of Lazarus as an illustration of the resurrection Jesus promises. John 11)
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