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WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? PART 2 (2 OF 3)

by Scott Maze

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-21
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Part 2 (2 of 3)
Series: Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?
Scott Maze
1 John 4:7-21


Video of Interview with NRH Mayor, Oscar Trevino before me and Video of Interview with Schlutter Elementary Principal at Cross Church.

For the next few Sunday's, we are going to focus on our relationships in our community in a series, entitled, Won't You Be Our Neighbor? 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.'' In a recent survey, one-fourth of those surveyed indicated they had no one to talk to. Part of the problem is we are no longer rooted but we move and move and move again in increasingly mobile society. We can be compared the life of a tourist, someone who is always moving, never belonging. Always interested in collecting experiences, but remaining superficial and disconnected from permanency. We drop into a rich but small book tucked away toward the end of our Bibles.

''Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son ...

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