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The Good Samaritan 2015

12/7/2015

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My Sunday School class is grades 6-8. We are reading the Gospel of Luke. Yesterday we read Luke 10 which includes the story of the Good Samaritan. After reading we discuss. So I explained that the Samaritans were the enemies of the Jewish people. I also pointed out that the person who got beat up would be one of us, and asked who would our enemy be. "ISIS" came the response.

"So in the story," I continued, you get robbed and beaten up. Our pastor Todd comes by and doesn't help. Then I come by and I don't help you either. A member of ISIS comes by and stops to help you. How does that make you feel?" 

Quiet. Then "I don't think I want them to help me. I don't trust them." 

Wham. That is the message of this story. That is the point Jesus is trying to make. 

Would you let ISIS help you? Are they your neighbor? 

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