Who stops to help a stranger?
A teacher of God’s law asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus answers with a story about a man robbed on the road to Jericho. A priest and a temple helper walk past. A Samaritan, someone the listeners didn’t expect much from, stops and helps.
A teacher of God’s law asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus answers with a story about a man robbed on the road to Jericho. A priest and a temple helper walk past. A Samaritan, someone the listeners didn’t expect much from, stops and helps.
Kids play the priest and the Samaritan, make 4 choices, and stop 4 times to use different ways of knowing to see why people walk past and what “neighbor” really means.
Ages 5–11
The story doesn’t say. Jesus leaves it open so we ask ourselves the same question: what stops us from stopping?
A story Jesus told in Luke 10, when a lawyer asked, “Who is my neighbor?” A man is robbed and left on the road. A priest and a Levite (a temple helper) walk past. A Samaritan, from a people Jesus’ listeners looked down on, stops, bandages him and pays for his care. Jesus ends by asking which one was a neighbor, and says, “Go and do likewise.”