Today, I spent time with two 7th-grade students reading a challenging passage from Jane Eyre and helping them understand context clues within the story.
As we read, the word communion was used, to which one student asked “What’s communion?” I said it’s a way of honoring Christ. To which the other student said, “Like the bread, the body of Christ?”
Yes, I said, adding…and the wine, what’s the wine? The same student replied, “The blood of Christ.”
Quickly, without thinking, the first student replied…
“that’s brutal!”
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I suspect that was the first time they heard about communion and Church practice. I hadn’t intended nor expected to get to this from reading Jane Eyre.
It was an honest and direct perspective from someone unaware of the events and meaning surrounding Christ and Christianity.
I found it oddly refreshing and perceptive. Maybe his context was not what I or the author intended. But he clearly was paying attention and formulating a thought.
Sometimes we can learn from those we teach, or at least gain an understanding of how others see the world.
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