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John 10:10 - Living life to the full (touch) #2 - Coggle Diagram
John 10:10 - Living life to the full (touch) #2
The word touch implies gentleness
X always the case
The woman's touch might have been a desperate grab
Touch also includes unwanted contact
includes the punch
Sadly sometimes people are subject to unwanted touch
Need to be assertive
J talked about what to do if someone hit you
X passive
Often people can't be - esp. children
Tragically often in church
We understand the dangers of unwanted touch
We train each other - we invest in safeguarding officers - we have procedures
And we take care
And responsibility
All aspects of their safety. Physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual
Try to understand and practice healthy touch
Rev Peter Powers always held a cross when he preached
Kept him in touch with the values he was preaching about.
All children having a cross - all team to have one
X hold all the time - inappropriate if doing a craft (or putting up JJ sign)
To have and to hold
We hope it'll be another way to help the team bond (bind/superglue)
Sports teams scrummage together to cement their binding together. Its very physical
We can't do that (many wouldn't want to anyway)
Risk Assessment - no sharing of the peace - not everyone would want to (avoiding the peace)
But the need to touch, to hug is deep - and wholesome - and right. (Daisy - results didn't matter)
But for now we'll elbow bump
as a sign of our brotherly and sisterly love for each other
Confident that love is much more contagious than Covid 10 , more infectious than a pandemic , more transmittable than the coronavirus even without touch
And for the children
Very touching