June 10 - Family the place of growth

By Paul Machira, All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi

Who would your son or daughter find at church if he strayed there on a random weekday looking for answers? Would they find people there to guide them or discourse their latest scriptural findings? What would they find at your local church compared with what they would find at your bank? How much information would your daughter or son get on financial services the bank offers if they randomly walked into the bank vis-à-vis what they would get at church?

Continuing with the Gospel of Luke at chapter 2:46, when the child Jesus remained behind at the temple or maybe the reason he was left behind at the temple by the parents could partly be because he found himself in good company there. The Scripture records from verse 46 that after looking for him for three days,

…… they found him in the temple courts sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.