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!