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Curated Sermon Illustrations on Food
Explore powerful illustrations on food. Discover stories, analogies, humor and more as you illustrate the timeless truths from scripture.
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A Loaf of Bread
A loaf of bread is the bearer of at least four major narratives or histories; (1) a narrative of natural processes that yield diverse plant growth, yeast spores, salt, sugar, and water; (2) an agricultural narrative about the human domestication of plants, considerable experimentation with grains and heat, and the development of grain economies; (3) a moral/philosophical narrative about the transformation of humanity itself as people grow into the idea that they can control their habitats and relationships with each other in new and potentially hospitable ways; and (4) a theological narrative focused on Jesus as the “bread of life.”
This means that to consider fully what a loaf is requires us to move far beyond a particular slice to include the material, biological, social, and divine sources that feed into every bite. A “simple” food with this much ecological and cultural depth will, of necessity, presuppose many subplots that add significance to the overall meaning of bread.
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