Tuesday: Third Week in Lent Year A

 WEEK 3: TUESDAY
 
Matthew 15.1–20; focused on 15.1– 9

Germs and Jesus!’ shouted the seven-year-old son of a friend of mine. ‘Germs and Jesus! You keep telling me they’re important and I can’t see either of them!’ A fascinating response to a pressing parental problem. We tell our children about Jesus. We also, at a different level, explain to them that they must wash their hands because there are things called ‘germs’ which we can’t see but which do nasty things if we don’t wash them off. Jews in the ancient world didn’t know what we know about germs (they didn’t know what we know about Jesus...

Taken from Lent For Everyone – Matthew Year A by Tom Wright (2011)

Published by SPCK

For resources that accompany this book visit http://bigbible.org.uk/

The #BigRead2011: meeting together in housegroups to read the Bible,
making use of Tom Wright's Matthew for Lent with opportunities to go
much bigger and much more creative and join in online (inter)nationally.
From quiet sitting rooms with Bibles and books, to coffee shops and
internet chatrooms across the world.