The topic was: Is Jesus asking us to be wimps? Our assigment was Matthew 5:38-42
Matthew 5: 38-42 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
We opened with Hymn 29: Breaking through the clouds of darkness, black with error, doubt and fear: lighting up each somber shawdow, with a radiance soft and clear; filling every heart with gladness, that its holy power feels, comes the Christian Science gospel, sin it kills and grief it heals.
Followed by a reading of Psalm 119: 121-128
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Guests shared their findings on this topic of "turning the other cheek"
We closed reading Hymn 182:
Make channels for the streams of Love, where they may broadly run, and Love has over-flowing streams, to fill them everyone. But if at anytime we cease such channels to provide, the very founts of love for us will then seem parched and dried. For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above, they cease to have who cease to give, such is the law of Love.