Religion of Jesus

Lim, Pendatun, Gomez, Kurihara, and Calimon

TREDTWO A57

Jesus embodies compassion

WHAT IS COMPASSION?

• God desires to free others from their suffering. He has compassion for people that are lost. He has compassion for people that repent and have a true desire to turn away from their sin. God has compassion for people that have faith in Him.

Compassionate For Those That Are Lost.

• Compassion is a desire to free others from their suffering. God definitely desires to free all of us from suffering. His compassion is empathy not sympathy. Basically he tries to understand us, instead of just feeling sorry for us.

• Jesus' compassionate ministry on Earth was to reach out to the lost and teach them the truth.

HEY KIDS, IT’S STORY TIME!

• Here is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. And when a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come. And after she’s heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child’s father, and teaches it to him. And then, when they make love to physically conceive the child, some of that time they sing the song of the child, as a way to invite it.

• And then, when the mother is pregnant, the mother teaches that child’s song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people around her sing the child’s song to welcome it. And then, as the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child’s song. If the child falls, or hurts its knee, someone picks it up and sings its song to it. Or perhaps the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song.

• In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them.

• The tribe recognizes that the correction for sin is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.

• And it goes this way through their life. In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when this child is lying in bed, ready to die, all the villagers know his or her song, and they sing—for the last time—the song to that person.

Psalm 103: 8-13

• “The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our inquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far as he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”

Mohandas Karamchand

Gandhi (Mahatma

Gandhi)

• Porbandar, India• October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948• Middle class family • Educated: studied law in London, England

Mahatma Gandhi Pioneer of Satyagraha (devotion totruth) – a non-violent way to

redress wrongs

Primary leader of India’s independence movement

He committed his life in fighting for his country and to the idea of non-

violence.

He believed in simple living—he made his own clothes, he practiced

eating a vegetarian diet and would conduct fasts which served as a self-

purification and as a means of protest for him.

He fought for the marginalized and oppressed people throughout the

world, regardless of their race, or their position in the caste system.

Mahatma Gandhi Went to South Africa to work at an Indian law firm

“On one occasion he was thrown from a first class train

carriage, despite being in possession of a valid ticket.”

He fought against the injustice of racial segregation of

Indians in South Africa through non-violent civil

disobedience or non-violent civil protest

He founded a political movement – Natal Indian Congress

In 1914, the South African government conceded to many

of Gandhi’s demands and sentiments

Mahatma Gandhi He returned to India to and fought against the British rule through

conducting strikes and protests, and boycotts of British goods and

institutions

He led the Indian National Congress and wanted India to achieve

its independence from the British rule

His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive

taxation and discrimination.

He fought to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to

class discrimination

He was jailed several times

Mahatma Gandhi He tried to improve and resolve Hindu-Muslim conflict

Proclaimed a new campaign of civil disobedience in protest at a tax on salt

and led a 320km march to the sea to collect salt

He began making negotiations with the British government, Cabinet

Mission, in which the new constitutional structure was presented and

recommended

The formation of the two new independent states of India and Pakistan

was divided by religious lines.

Gandhi was opposed to partition because he foresaw problems and

conflicts that would arise from the parting

He tried to stop Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal which led to his

assassination in Delhi byy Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic.

“The best way to find yourself is to lose

yourself in the service of others.”

• - Mahatma Gandhi

Mother Theresa

• -August 26, 1910• -Nun, Saint• -Skopje Macedonia• -Calcutta, India

• In 1919, Mother Teresa`s father died of an unknown cause. Although speculations were arising that it was caused by the poisoning of the political enemies, the real cause of his father`s death is still unknown. She became closer with her mother with her father`s death and she taught her the value of charity. Although they were not wealthy, her family offered meals to the poor people of the city.

"My child, never eat a single mouthful unless you are sharing it with others,“ she taught her daughter Agnes. When mother Teresa looked asked who were the people they were eating with, her mother responds saying, "Some of them are our relations, but all of them are our people."

In 1931, Mother Teresa made her First Profession of Vows when she travelled to Darjeeling, India. She was sent to Calcutta at Saint Mary`s High School to teach afterwards. They taught girls from the city`s poorest Bengali families. She learned both Bengali and Hindi fluently as she taught geography and history and tried to alleviate the girl`s poverty through education.

As she became the school`s principal in 1944 of Saint Mary`s, she expressed her devotion to lead her students to a life of devotion to Christ. "Give me the strength to be ever the light of their lives, so that I may lead them at last to you," she wrote in prayer.

As she was riding the train from Calcutta to the Himalayan foothills for a retreat, Christ spoke to her and told her to abandon teaching to work in the slums of Calcutta.

The Princess without a palace

• Once upon a time there was a kingdom with an ancient prophecy that spoke of a Princess without a palace. The prophecy said that as soon as that Princess found her palace, she would be the wisest and fairest Queen there had ever been.

• That kingdom had a royal family who had lived in a beautiful palace for generations. But there was a great earthquake which destroyed the palace and killed the King and Queen.Their two daughters, Princess Nora and Princess Sabina, managed to survive.

• After this tragedy, Nora understood that she, being the elder sister, might be the Princess mentioned in the prophecy.

• Accompanied by her sister, Nora devoted herself to finding her new palace. During their travels they met a wise old man who gave them an old key that would open the palace doors.

“I have no idea where the palace will be”, said the old man, “All I know is that you should try this key wherever you seek it”.

• And Nora went with her sister, trying the key on all the palace doors they found. When there were no more palaces to try, they thought maybe the palace would just be some large important house, but neither did the key fit any of those.

• Fed up, the sisters lost hope of ever finding their palace. They had spent so much time away, travelling and searching, that no one now missed them. Neither did they have any money or jewels left

• And when they arrived at a poor village they had to work in the fields alongside all the poor people who, not knowing that the sisters were royalty, took them in as though they were two homeless orphans.

• The sisters lived there for some years. They worked hard, and knew what hunger was, and how life could be so difficult, but people loved them so much that they came to be very happy, and they gradually forgot their royal past.

• One night, while tidying Nora's things, Sabina found the old key. Amused, she took it to her sister, and they reminisced about their search for their own magnificent palace.

"There still must be some palace, hidden in some little forest, just waiting for us to find it," said Nora, with a glimmer of hope.”

• "Well, you know what I think,"

answered her younger sister,

"that I don't need anything else to be happy. We spent months travelling from castle to castle to live the life of Queens, but I have never been so happy as I am now, even though we don't have much. If I had to choose a palace,"

• she continued, joyfully dancing about by the door, "it would be this little cabin." she ended, laughing, and then with a solemn gesture placing the key in the cabin door.

• just then, the room filled with lights and music, and from that old door arose a wonderful palace filled with life and colour. The place became totally transformed; there were fountains, gardens, and animals. The village people marvelled at all of this.

• The only thing which remained as it had been was the cabin door, reminding everyone of how Sabina the Wonderful - which was what they called their wise Queen - had found that in a simple, humble life lay the doorway to happiness, not only for herself, but for all the inhabitants of that land.

Values

• Humility and Homeliness

LESSON OF THE STORY

"Happiness is not to be found in the showy and sophisticated things in life, but rather in the right way to approach life and live it."

If you see a bad person who needs help, will you help him/her?

OR

Jesus and Zacchaeus

• Luke 19:1-10

Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.

All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Zacchaeus is• A short man• A tax collector• Spending the money

to the government but keeps a lot for himself

• Not liked by people in Jericho

• A sinner

But why did Jesus went to Zacchaeus’s house even if he’s a sinner?

Jesus is teaching us inclusive solidarity. It means that we should not only help our relatives, friends, love ones and the good ones instead, we should help and love all our neighbors even sinners.

We must remember that

• All of us are sons and daughters of God• All of us are created in the image and likeness

of God• Sympathy is the most important thing in

helping others

So, The answer to the first question should be

SOURCES

• http://banoosh.com/blog/2013/12/03/• http://access-jesus.com/definition-of-compassion.htmlBBC. Mohandas Gandhi (1896-1948). Retrieved on

September 28 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gandhi_mohandas.shtml

Bio. Mahatma Gandhi. Retrieved on September 28 from http://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898#synopsis

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• http://freestoriesforkids.com/children/stories-and-tales/princess-without-palace

• Prepared by TREDTWO A57• Lim, Pendatun, Gomez, Kurihara, and Calimon