8.11.19 Sunday School Horror Stories: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

THIS WEEK: Three boys in a foreign country are thrown into a furnace to burn to death because they are religious minorities. The kids will love it!

If you grew up on Veggie Tales (no judgement), you might remember the story of Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego being about a big chocolate bunny that demands idol worship "I don't love my mom or my dad, just the bunny."

Creepy.

Worth celebrating here is the persistence of the oppressed under the heel of empire, the faithfulness of God in hopeless situations, and the beauty of an ancient form of prophetic literature known as Apokalypsis.

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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.