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Well needless to say I determined that if I ever got a chance to start a church from scratch it would be firmly grounded in the principles of Green Eggs and Ham.If you have young children, story time is a nightly routine. Suess story book knows the importance of being persistent when trying to convince someone to try something new, how come we don’t? Now I am not trying to trivialize this message, but think about it, if a character in a Dr. All he new was how important it was that his friend make the decision to try green eggs and ham. Luckily for his friend, Sam wasn’t like a typical Christian in a typical church, he wasn’t worried about offending his friend or driving him away.

But no, Sam wasn’t content to take no for an answer. Sam would have happily gone on his way and his friend would never have experienced the joy of eating green eggs and ham. No problem and that would have been the end of the story. If Sam had of been you typical Christian from you typical church than when his friend said, "I do not like them Sam-I-Am, I do not like green eggs and ham." then Sam would have said, OK. And so as I settle down one night to read my daughter this childhood classic I saw something that I had never seen before. Deborah was allowed to take some books for bed time stories and you guessed it she took Green Eggs and Ham. My eyes were opened a number of years ago when we were in Australia and we went on vacation to the Great Barrier Reef.

Sam! if you will let me be, I will try them. Pretty definite, you’d think that Sam would get the hint, but no he’s up for one more try and try he does as he says:ĭoes it work? Let’s continue to listen in. And his friend keeps saying, no, no, no I don’t like them, until finally it would seem that Sam has tried everything because his friend says: Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox? And at every rejection he tries something new.

Sam keeps trying to get his friend to try green eggs and ham. And my kids love it and I have read it to them let’s see, at last count, 3,123,789 times approximately.

Didn’t always hate it though, no sir when I was a kid I loved Green Eggs and Ham, and when Stephen was born I promised myself that I’d buy that classic for my children, and I did.