My parents are having Christmas at their house and my Dad wants everyone to come prepared to relate their favorite Jesus story (I know, I already gave him crap for it--he finds the situation humorous). Anyway, I figure I can find some value in one of the stories, even if they are fiction. I just need to find one I can live with.
Helpful answers only please, I've heard all the funny ones.
2007-12-19 12:43:35 · 12 answers · asked by Jovibot, of the flying species 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Look, I would sit around and talk about my favorite Star Wars story, why can't I talk about Jesus?
2007-12-19 12:59:51 · update #1
Try the Samaritans one, it's one of the most decent.
2007-12-19 12:48:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell a story about the FSM, they'd like that.
Be a man. Why play along, don't participate. Tend to the turkey in the oven, while they are doing it.
Edit:
" (I know, I already gave him crap for it--he finds the situation humorous). "
So what is your dad an atheist or an agnostic? So if he isn't that serious, and his idea is to poke fun at Christianity I don't get the point. Why waste time that should be spent with your family making fun of a religion and Jesus? I am sure that an atheist can find something more productive and memorable to do with their family during this holiday season.
What ever rocks your family's boat I guess.
2007-12-19 20:56:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the story of the fig tree from Mark 11:12- 14. It's short and delightfully nonsensical.
2007-12-19 20:55:34 · answer #3 · answered by Geoffrey S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the Blind man of John 9 seeing as it presents a typical miracle Jesus did in a public context and bit of a philosophical debate follows.
2007-12-19 21:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Good Samaritan, it doesn't even feature Jesus. It's also a good reminder that just because someone is from another country, it doesn't make tham any less good-spirited or even any different from us. It's still relevant today, the way Muslims are looked down on.
2007-12-19 20:51:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A woman was caught in the act of adultery. The townspeople brought her to Jesus to see what he would say. She was there at the feet of Jesus, completely humiliated. He stooped down, wrote something (unknown to us) in the sand. He told the men that stood there accusing the woman. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. One-by-one starting from the eldest down to the youngest, the men left. Then Jesus said something to the woman so liberating. "neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more."
Jesus does not condemn us for our sin. He liberates us from it and gives us the freedom to do it no more and begin again.
2007-12-19 22:17:20 · answer #6 · answered by karendur2thend 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 7: 8-10
(Jesus): Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not full come.
When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
After you have read this passage -- ask your Christian family that since lying is a sin, and Jesus just lied by telling the brethern he wasn't going to the feast, then appeared at the feast in disguise, does this mean Jesus sinned? Good luck.
2007-12-19 21:01:50 · answer #7 · answered by Cinthia Round house kicking VT 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How about the sermon on the mount? Everyone can benefit from a lesson in humility.
2007-12-19 20:49:10 · answer #8 · answered by Mr.Samsa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're in a bit of a bind. I must admit there's no way I would give in to my parents if they demanded that of me. In fact, if they were that gung ho I probably wouldn't go at all. I hope you work it out.
2007-12-19 20:56:31 · answer #9 · answered by cosmic_beads 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The parable of the rich fool, Luke 12;16.
2007-12-19 21:18:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋