Jesus gets angry

Often people think of Jesus as a nice, easygoing friendly guy who wouldn't have a problem with anything. The Bible tells a different story; Jesus made people uncomfortable and criticised them for being hypocritical and religious. Sometimes Jesus got angry. What makes Jesus especially angry is when people don't treat God with respect. At Scripture last week we acted out the story of Jesus kicking all the shop-keepers and moneychangers out of the temple. He said they had turned God's house of prayer into a supermarket. He made a whip from ropes, shouted at people, turned over tables, and generally made a mess.

We talked about how people say that it doesn't matter how you worship God or what exactly you believe. But this story shows that there are right ways and wrong ways to treat God. In another part of the Bible Jesus says that no one can have a relationship with God except through him. So God cares about exactly how we worship him and exactly what we believe.

Because this term is all about the evidence for Jesus being God, we played a fingerprints game. As everyone came into Scripture, we took their fingerprints; later on we had to guess whose fingerprints belonged to whom.



Does anyone know who these fingerprints belong to?