Read Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 with your family.

Usually when people in the church talk about Jesus it is with a serious voice. We talk about belief and heaven and how to behave.

But the people who knew Jesus, who met Jesus were not concerned about those things, and they didn’t always talk with a serious voice. Sometimes they spoke with a desperate voice because they wanted what Jesus was teaching and they wanted healing for their bodies and their hearts.

This story talks about how popular Jesus was and how people never left him alone. He was the person who told them they were worth a lot to God, because they weren’t getting that message from other places. He was the one who told them how to live out God’s love so others could feel it too.

The great thing about the message of Love that Jesus shared is that the same message attracts people today. We have to stop talking about belief when we tell people about God, and start talking to them like Jesus did, taking about love and acceptance.

The people of today need to hear that message just as much as the people did 2000 years ago.