Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon." Matthew 15:22

What happens when Jesus, sent as he was to the “lost sheep of Israel”, encounters a Canaanite woman with great faith? What to do you think of the idea that Jesus changed his mind? Or was healing the woman’s daughter his plan all along?

Joins us for communion, with Matt J liturgising and preaching.

Every Tuesday evening we gather together to talk about what it means to be Jesus’ disciples in contemporary Melbourne. Sometimes that’s a Bible Study, sometimes something more thematic, and sometimes something more reflective.

We eat together at 7pm - bring your own dinner, or buy something from one of the many takeaway options on the street - and the “serious bit” begins at 8. We’re done by 9:15

Read more about how we meet on Tuesday evenings.

Image: Bazzi Rahib, Ilyas Basim Khuri. The Canaanite Woman asks for healing for her daughter, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt University Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.