Are You My Neighbor

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Are You My Neighbor?
justify himself dikaiow to declare righteous,
to clear oneself of a charge
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Luke 1615
You are the ones who justify yourselves in the
eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is
highly valued among men is detestable in Gods
sight.
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Luke 189-14
To some who were confident of their own
righteousness and looked down on everybody else,
Jesus told this parable Two men went up to the
temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a
tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed
about himself God, I thank you that I am not
like other menrobbers, evildoers, adulterersor
even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week
and give a tenth of all I get.
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Luke 189-14
But the tax collector stood at a distance. He
would not even look up to heaven, but beat his
breast and said, God, have mercy on me, a
sinner. I tell you that this man, rather than
the other, went home justified before God. For
everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and
he who humbles himself will be exalted.
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Are You My Neighbor?
1. A Self-Centered Question
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The Road from Jerusalem to Jericho
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Are You My Neighbor?

• A Self-Centered Question
• An Unexpected Interruption

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Are You My Neighbor?

• Inconvenient
• Racism

• A dead body?
• Is he a Jew?

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Luke 951-53
As the time approached for him to be taken up to
heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a
Samaritan village to get things ready for him
but the people there did not welcome him, because
he was heading for Jerusalem.
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Are You My Neighbor?

• Samaritan lavishly spends his
• Clothes (bandages)
• Oil
• Wine
• Donkey (comfort)
• Personal Safety
• Time (stays overnight)
• Money

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Are You My Neighbor?

• A Self-Centered Question
• An Unexpected Interruption
• An Others-Centered Question

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Are You My Neighbor?

• A Self-Centered Question
• An Unexpected Interruption
• An Others-Centered Question
• A Constant Demand

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Are You My Neighbor?

• Get beyond theological debate to practical action

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Are You My Neighbor?

• Get beyond theological debate to practical action
  
• Embrace unexpected interruptions as Gods
  invitation

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Are You My Neighbor?

• Get beyond theological debate to practical action
  
• Embrace unexpected interruptions as Gods
  invitation
• Look past traditional differences and love others
  unconditionally

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Are You My Neighbor?
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Are You My Neighbor?
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Are You My Neighbor?
Who is my enemy? The abortionist? The Hollywood
producer polluting our culture? The politician
threatening my moral principles? The drug-lord
ruling my inner city? If my activism, however
well-motivated, drives out love, then I have
misunderstood Jesus gospel. I am stuck with law,
not the gospel of grace. Philip Yancey
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Are You My Neighbor?
I really only love God as much as I love the
person I love the least. Dorothy Day