Thursday, 15 October 2020

When the standard answer backfires

In church we have worksheets for the kids, to help them engage with the service. I was picking up those that had been left on the seats.

One of the questions said 'draw or write something from the Bible reading'. One child had written 'God'.

I suppose it seemed like a safe bet. However I'm not convinced the child was actually listening. You see, we're going through the book of Esther at the minute...*

*Esther is the one book of the Bible that doesn't mention God even once!

2 comments:

Jim said...

The Greek has Him in there a ton.

Kirsty said...

True, but the original Hebrew doesn't. And neither mentions God in chapter 3, which was what we were reading.

Of course, the fact that God isn't mentioned doesn't mean he's not there.