Church and Bread

The basis of the Children's Moment I did today in worship: Why I think bread and church are alike:

• Bread is made up of several ingredients, each of which serves a particular function. Each of us has been given gifts from God, and each of us has a role in church.
• No one ingredient can be bread on its own. No one person can be church on his/her own.
• The baker brings the ingredients together and bakes the bread, forming it into something that it wasn't before. God brings us all together and makes church -- transforming us into something we weren't before.
• Bread isn't useful until we cut it and give it away, and when someone bakes bread, and gives it away, it can be a way to demonstrate love and friendship. Church is like that. I'm waiting for a pastor to finish communion by saying, "Get out." When we go forth into the world and demonstrate the love of God, we are sharing the "so that" of church.