Every Wednesday I spend the mid-morning with the four year-olds at our
kindergarten. It is a cool time where we sing songs, I tell stories and
we pray together. Today I gave them a paraphrased version of Luke
10:25-37, 'The Parable of the Good Samaritan' and then asked them to
tell me what it meant.
We all know that Jesus said that it was
kids who most 'got' the Kingdom of God. Us adults are the ones to
justify, modify and rationalise things beyind the point of recognition
of their origional meaning. Not these four year olds. They got it.
One
replied, "Andrew, that's easy... We are meant to care for people who
need help." I asked the rest of the group if they agreed. They did
(although a couple of them thought Spiderman and Batman also helped the
police when they needed help!). And I thought to myself as I walked
out, "It is that simple! Jesus 'helped and helps us' and we are to do
the same to others. That is what will tansform our community from its
anxiety driven consumerism and fear of 'the other'. That is what the
community will never despise the church for... "Out of the mouths of
babes..."
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