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WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? PART 1 (1 OF 3)

by Scott Maze

Scripture: Matthew 7:12, Matthew 22:37-40
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Part 1 (1 of 3)
Series: Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?
Scott Maze
Matthew 7:12; 22:37–40


There's a special feature throughout this series ... we've designed so you can hear from many of our city leaders each Sunday. I asked NRH fire chief, Stan Tinney, to join us for an interview.

How long have you been a firefighter? Tell us about the NRH Fire Department - what would you want us to know? I hear this fire station all the time - what is your most common call? Could some of those issues be resolved with good neighboring?

One of the more famous stories in all of literature comes from the earliest parts of our Bible. Cain and Abel, the children of Adam and Eve, are in conflict Cain actually murders Abel. God quickly confronts Cain with these words: ''Where is Abel your brother?'' He said, ''I do not know; am I my brother's keeper'' (Genesis 4:9b)? It's a rhetorical question to enforce the Bible's command that we care for one another. I am my brother's keeper. Say this with me: I am my brother's keeper.

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? Many of you have seen our videos featuring Mr. Rogers in recent weeks. More seriously, 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 eight closest neighbors. As we have been preparing for this day, our staff called this ''the chart of shame.'' I discovered this week that one of my neighbors had been in the hospital nearly 60 times in three years. We'll come back to this chart at the end of today's message.

On Food Truck Sunday, we'll be turning our south parking lot into a Food Truck Park. Everyone has to eat lunch after church, right? So let's just do it together! What if y ...

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