Pineapple Story

How many years did this story cover?

What did the natives think should happen with the pineapples?

What did the missionary think should happen with the pineapples?

What was the missionaries response to loosing the pineapples?

What is your pineapple garden?

How do you know if something is an idol in your life?

What needs to change this week for your actions to line up with God?

The missionary had let his pineapples become an idol in his life. They were more important to him than serving God and serving others. That idol kept him from being able to have a good testimony to the natives. It was not until he gave it back to God and stopped making an idol of the pineapples that his words and actions matched. Only then did the natives start to believe what he said about God and the Gospel.

James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.”

Psalm 24:1 “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.”

1 Corinthians 10:31 “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

Philippians 2:5–11 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

The missionary could not be a good testimony of God until he gave up his idol of the pineapple garden. We cannot have good testimonies until we give our idols to God.