Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
Micah 6: 6-8, Luke 10:25-37 I’m not sure there are many Bible stories more familiar than the parable of the Good Samaritan. Just yesterday morning – listening to Saturday Live on Radio 4 with Revd Richard Coles, I immediately thought of the story of the Good Samaritan as I listened to the ‘thank you’ slot. If you’re not a fan of Saturday Live all you need to know is that people contact the show with stories of good deeds done for them in the past where, for whatever reason, they never got the thank the person who helped them. They get to tell the story and thank the person on the Radio. The story yesterday was told by an older woman, who related how her daughter, unbeknown to her, had collapse in the street in central London. A man working in the hotel opposite spotted that the young woman had collapsed and that people were just walking past. He crossed the street, picked up the woman, and took her into the hotel foyer, where she was able to give him her mother’s phone numbe