Week Five

Part 5: The parables of Jesus, lessons learned from social distancing

Read Luke 10:25-37

The priest and the Levite were practicing social distancing long before the rest of us…

The forced separation we are going through at the moment throws into perspective what you might call the selfish social distancing many of us were engaging in before the pandemic — preferring to hold back, look away, and cross to the other side of the street to avoid facing one another.

Who is your neighbour — the people who need you! In these restricted times and in the future when restrictions are lifted — what are things we can do for the people who need us?

Discuss as a group

Do you have a favourite parable?

What has social distancing taught us about the kingdom of God?

If you had to make up a parable about social distancing and the dilemmas it has brought about what would your story look like? What issues would you raise and resolve?

Read Matthew 9: 16-17

What has to change in the church to face the new reality that will meet congregations on their return to their buildings in the future?

Can you put the the new things we have discovered about God and our communities in this past year into the same old formats? How can we resh