WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? PART 3 (3 OF 3)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Luke 10:25-37
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (3 of 3)
Series: Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?
Scott Maze
Luke 10:25-37
Video of Interview of police chief, Jimmy Perdue plays before me.
Won't You Be Our Neighbor? is a series designed to introduce our fall focus of connecting with the people's closest around you. Throughout all of our Bible Fellowship Groups, you'll be hearing about this follow up over the next weeks to come. We are asking many of you to read The Art of Neighboring as we progress through the series. This is a light read that you can move through in a matter of a couple of hours. In fact, one of simplest pieces is this tool: where you are asked to identify the names of your 8 closest neighbors. As we have been preparing for this day, our staff called this ''the chart of shame.''
Today, we are looking at an amazing passage. A lawyer tries to trap Jesus. This is an expert in religious law where we think of a lawyer as someone who is expert in civil law. As Jesus answers the man's challenge, Jesus gives us one of the most stirring and inspiring stories on mercy in the history of human kind.
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, ''Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?'' 26 He said to him, ''What is written in the Law? How do you read it?'' 27 And he answered, ''You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.'' 28 And he said to him, ''You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.''
29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, ''And who is my neighbor?'' 30 Jesus replied, ''A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the o ...
Series: Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?
Scott Maze
Luke 10:25-37
Video of Interview of police chief, Jimmy Perdue plays before me.
Won't You Be Our Neighbor? is a series designed to introduce our fall focus of connecting with the people's closest around you. Throughout all of our Bible Fellowship Groups, you'll be hearing about this follow up over the next weeks to come. We are asking many of you to read The Art of Neighboring as we progress through the series. This is a light read that you can move through in a matter of a couple of hours. In fact, one of simplest pieces is this tool: where you are asked to identify the names of your 8 closest neighbors. As we have been preparing for this day, our staff called this ''the chart of shame.''
Today, we are looking at an amazing passage. A lawyer tries to trap Jesus. This is an expert in religious law where we think of a lawyer as someone who is expert in civil law. As Jesus answers the man's challenge, Jesus gives us one of the most stirring and inspiring stories on mercy in the history of human kind.
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, ''Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?'' 26 He said to him, ''What is written in the Law? How do you read it?'' 27 And he answered, ''You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.'' 28 And he said to him, ''You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.''
29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, ''And who is my neighbor?'' 30 Jesus replied, ''A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the o ...
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