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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, a vicar in the Church of England. Something I'm always encouraging people to do is to actually read for themselves the biographies of Jesus in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
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and to ask themselves what they make of Jesus. Do they warm to him? Are they drawn to him
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Is he the sort of person they'd want to spend more time with? And one thing I find so compelling about Jesus comes out in a small moment in John chapter 4
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Jesus is sitting by a well, a woman comes to draw water and he asks her for a drink
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Unsurprising to us today, but she was stunned. She says, you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman
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How can you ask me for a drink? There was an ethnic and religious hostility between Jews and Samaritans In that culture it also crossed a social line for a man to start a conversation with a woman in this way But Jesus does so and then he has a conversation with her
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that changes her life. This is just one small thing I love about Jesus. He deliberately walks
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through all these social barriers and taboos. He's not stopped by barriers of ethnicity or gender or
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class or background or wealth. They mean nothing to him. Why? Because he sees people, not stereotypes
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We humans are so good at putting people in little boxes, labelling them up and treating them
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accordingly. But he sees people and they matter to him. There is no one he belittles or dismisses
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or dishonours. I wonder, are you not drawn to someone like that
