Why do Sunday school teachers...
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Why do Sunday school teachers glory in this incident, blithely making spiritual points about armor that doesn’t fit? Would they say the same about a street fight today? Perhaps the fascination with David and Goliath is because we want heroes and we don’t think about what bloody business they may be involved in. We are much aided by a statement of the WWII officer (a WWI veteran) who wrote home, “I wish the people at home, instead of thinking of their boys in terms of football stars, would think of them in terms of miners trapped underground or suffocating to death in a tenth-story fire.” Christians are better served by the whole truth about a person than about their military (or athletic) prowess. What if we approached the story, “This is how life often is, but did our Lord Jesus do such things?” People consider lots of behaviors Jesus (and people at his time) never dreamed of by saying, “What would Jesus do?” How about applying “What would Jesus do?” to this story. Here’s a place where the question definitely pushes to a Christian answer.
