I only had my Spanish New Testament with me at church this morning, which made it a little hard for me to follow along when we were reading aloud. Not that I can't read it, but I opened my Bible in the middle of the reading, and we were going over part of the Sermon on the Mount where everything sort of sounds the same. So I was looking and thinking, "Oh, this must be where we are. But I don't totally get it. Why is it translated that way?" Then I realized I was on the wrong verse, which really cleared that whole thing up.
I led the high school group at church this morning, and it went fairly well. I didn't know a lot of the kids, so I was a little worried at first that they wouldn't listen to me at all or wouldn't discuss, but everything was great. We read a few verses of the passage at a time, with the kids discussing some questions I threw out to them at their tables.
Some of them even got pretty deep! One of the questions they were discussing was "What the heck did Jesus mean by "don't let your left hand know what the right is doing?" The quietest table of all boys said that maybe Jesus was talking in terms of the church as the body of Christ, so the hands would refer to other Christians, etc. Holy cow! I had never thought of that. I had just thought it was another example of Jesus being oblique and confusing on purpose or just to make a point.
Seriously? I love teenagers.
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