MR. POTATO HEAD GOES TO CORINTH (29 OF 40)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
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Mr. Potato Head Goes to Corinth (29 of 40)
Series: 1 Corinthians - And You Think You've Got Problems
Jeff Schreve
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
If you have your Bible, please turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 12. I want to talk to tonight about spiritual gifts in the body of Christ.
It was in 1949 that a man came up with a new toy. It was a toy that he envisioned where kids could take some parts: eyes and nose and mouth ears, feet, arms, and stick them on a potato and make a face and have fun and play around. He called it Mr. Potato Head. How many people in here had a Mr. Potato Head sometimes in life? Okay. Well, he invented that, this guy, in 1949. In 1952 Hasbro said, ''We're going to take that, and we're going to buy that whole idea, and we're going to start producing that.'' And so, they began to produce this toy, called Mr. Potato Head. And unbeknownst to me, until I studied this today, that toy first came without any body. You had to provide your own potato. You remember that? I said something to Larry about that and he was like, ''Well, yeah, I had one like that.'' And we just got out the potato and took all the parts and stuck it on there. And that toy sold for $.98. They put a commercial on television that marketed directly to the children. Before that time they always marketed to the parents, because they said, ''Well, parents are the ones that buy the toys, so we'll market to parents.'' But what Hasbro realized is if you can get the kids to want this toy, their parents will buy it, because they'll tell their parents, ''I want this, I want this.'' So for the first year that toy hit the market at $.98 each, sold a million sets of Mr. Potato Head. And it's gone on from there. It's been produced every single year since 1952. It hit the Toy Hall of Fame in the year 2000. And it has gotten a body, and it looks a whole lot more like this now.
This is a Mr. Potato Head. And it shows all the different parts. And kids can have fun with it. And you say, ''J ...
Series: 1 Corinthians - And You Think You've Got Problems
Jeff Schreve
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
If you have your Bible, please turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 12. I want to talk to tonight about spiritual gifts in the body of Christ.
It was in 1949 that a man came up with a new toy. It was a toy that he envisioned where kids could take some parts: eyes and nose and mouth ears, feet, arms, and stick them on a potato and make a face and have fun and play around. He called it Mr. Potato Head. How many people in here had a Mr. Potato Head sometimes in life? Okay. Well, he invented that, this guy, in 1949. In 1952 Hasbro said, ''We're going to take that, and we're going to buy that whole idea, and we're going to start producing that.'' And so, they began to produce this toy, called Mr. Potato Head. And unbeknownst to me, until I studied this today, that toy first came without any body. You had to provide your own potato. You remember that? I said something to Larry about that and he was like, ''Well, yeah, I had one like that.'' And we just got out the potato and took all the parts and stuck it on there. And that toy sold for $.98. They put a commercial on television that marketed directly to the children. Before that time they always marketed to the parents, because they said, ''Well, parents are the ones that buy the toys, so we'll market to parents.'' But what Hasbro realized is if you can get the kids to want this toy, their parents will buy it, because they'll tell their parents, ''I want this, I want this.'' So for the first year that toy hit the market at $.98 each, sold a million sets of Mr. Potato Head. And it's gone on from there. It's been produced every single year since 1952. It hit the Toy Hall of Fame in the year 2000. And it has gotten a body, and it looks a whole lot more like this now.
This is a Mr. Potato Head. And it shows all the different parts. And kids can have fun with it. And you say, ''J ...
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