Compassion or condemnation: on crowds

11/06/2020 7 min

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Episode Synopsis

"When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." Crowds - we miss them (those we enjoy like the sports or the concert-hall crowds); or we fear or condemn them (usually those who aren't 'our' crowd). Jesus had compassion on them - what might that mean for us today? Whilst across the world crowds gather to protest fair treatment for black people, and women, or on pro-democracy rallies, a talk for the First Sunday after Trinity  14 June 2020. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.