6.23.19 Sunday School Horror Stories: Noah & the Ark

 

Join us this summer as we revisit those classic bible stories adults love to tell to children: David & Goliath, Jonah & the Whale, Noah’s Ark, and more. We love to tell these stories to kids because they feature children and/or animals, but on closer examination, these stories are MESSED UP. 

Child soldiers, whales who swallow people whole, and (let’s face it) God’s genocide of basically the entire planet. We’ll revisit these stories with a more critical lens and discover that while the horror is real, so is the grace, beauty, and love of God.

THIS WEEK: We love telling this one to kids because.... animals! 
We tend to gloss over the implications of God's intentional destruction of the known world and all but a handful of humans and those cute fuzzy animals. We leave out altogether the part where angels and humans were getting it on and giving birth to giants (google "Nephilim." it's cool. we'll wait.)
Still, this story has much to teach us about making sense of chaos and destruction, trusting in the promise of God's protection, and how to reconcile the truth of God's love with a messy, violent bible.