Some stories from my Sunday School class - the antics of 10-year olds! And Osama bin Laden

I just started teaching the 10 year old girls in Sunday School. My first lesson was about the Good Samaritan, most people know this story, but to re-cap, it was about a Jewish man who was robbed, beaten and left for dead on the side of the road. Soon, a priest came walking down the road, and just passed the dying man, on the other side of the road, not even bothering to help. Then a Levite came walking by, and he, too, crossed to the other side, not bothering to help either. Lastly, a Samaritan, an enemy of the Jews, passed by, and not only did he clean the man's wounds, he put him on his animal (let's say a donkey), and took him to the nearest inn, where not only did he put the man up for a night, but paid the innkeeper 2 pence to have HIM care for the man, while the Samaritan went on his way.

I wanted to try to apply it to our lives, and thought of having the girls think of someone they didn't like, and then I was going to ask them what to do if they saw that person on the side of the road, beaten and robbed. So I asked them.

"Osama bin Laden!" they cried!

Ok, well, I wasn't really thinking that they would pick that ONE MAN that most of the world hates, and is a modern day Hitler and a murderer. But, I went and tried using their example anyway.

"What would you do if you saw Osama bin Laden on the side of the road, badly beaten?" I asked.

"We'd kill him!" they said. Oh, my sweet angels. Out of the mouths of babes, right?

Well I kinda screwed up this lesson, right? Because certainly that is what I would do, too!

They explained their reasoning, and it actually made sense: "because if we helped him he would just turn around and kill us"

I tried to salvage the lesson and said that we should pick another person as an example... maybe a bully at school... and was able to finish the lesson and get the point across (I hope).

I am going to have fun teaching these girls!