Love Beyond Friendliness

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Luke 1025-37
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The 3 Ms of Gospel Neighboring
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The 3 Ms of Gospel Neighboring

• MANDATE of Gospel Neighboring
• What does it mean to love my neighbor?

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MANDATE

• Love God so much it dominates your solitude.

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• Your religion is what you do with your solitude.
• Archbishop William Temple
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MANDATE

• Meet the needs of your neighbor with all the
  force, joy, speed and power to which you meet
  your own.

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MANDATE

• Meet concrete needs of all the people around you
  with such costliness that people will need to
  hear the Gospel just to make some sense of our
  your life.

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The 3 Ms of Gospel Neighboring

• MAGNITUDE of Gospel Neighboring
• To what extent should I love?

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3 Ways to Limit Gospel Neighboring
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3 Ways to Limit Gospel Neighboring

• 1. We tend to limit the WHO.
• Matthew 2531-46

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3 Ways to Limit Gospel Neighboring

• 1. We tend to limit the WHO.

• Reach across all barriers to help anyone in
  need.

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3 Ways to Limit Gospel Neighboring

• 2. We tend to limit the WHAT.
• Romans 58

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• But Christ loved you, pitied you, greatly laid
  himself out to relieve you from all that want and
  misery which you brought on yourself by your own
  folly. Should we not love others as Christ loved
  us? Jonathan Edwards

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3 Ways to Limit Gospel Neighboring

• 2. We tend to limit the WHAT.

• Help even those who have brought it on
  themselves.

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3 Ways to Limit Gospel Neighboring

• 3. We tend to limit the HOW MUCH.
• Galatians 62

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• We may by the rules of the Gospel be obliged to
  give unto others when we cannot do it without
  suffering ourselves, else how is that rule of
  bearing one anothers burdens fulfilled? If were
  never obliged to relieve others burdens accept
  when we can do it without burdening ourselves,
  how do you bear your neighbors burdens when you
  only do it when you dont bear any burden at
  all? Jonathan Edwards

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3 Ways to Limit Gospel Neighboring

• 3. We tend to limit the HOW MUCH.

• Help to the degree that you are burdened.

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The 3 Ms of Gospel Neighboring

• MOTIVATION of Gospel Neighboring
• Where do I get the power to love?

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MOTIVATION

• Dont be driven by morality which motivates
  through guilt.

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MOTIVATION

• Dont be driven by morality which motivates
  through guilt.
• Be driven by the grace given by Christ who is
  your Good Samaritan.