Sunday in Jerusalem

Tours are expensive! People often save for years to go on a pilgrimage to Israel and they spend their money for the best tour they can get. I feel the weight of responsibility every time I climb onto a tour bus and begin to show the people God has sent to me, the land of the Bible. So, with that in mind, we don't take a day off from the tour on Sunday for most tours. This week, however, we did things a little different. The tour leader was the speaker at one of the local congregations, Christ Church, inside the old city walls.


After the service, however, we did not just set the rest of the day aside. We toured the ancient streets of Jerusalem. One of our stops was a little shop in the Jewish Quarter. The name of the shop is Shoreshim which means Roots. The shopkeepers are two brothers, Moshe and Dov. Moshe talked to the group about the need for dialogue between Jewish people and Christians. He was eloquent, as usual. A fairly heated discussion followed and I think our tourists went away with a new dimension of understanding as well as a hunger for further dialogue.