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?
"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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