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Luke 10:25-37
Our relationships with our neighbors are transformed through obedience to God that
loves and serves them.
4. To love our neighbors teaches us to use our time and resources for others.
● Typically, we serve by doing one or the other. We give money to a charity or a
church and think it absolves us from giving our time. Or, we give our time...and
think it exempts us from using our resources as well.
● The Samaritan did both--he spent extensive time helping the beaten man and
returning to check on him; and he used his resources (both physical resources
5. The best way to love our neighbors is to share the message of salvation with them.
● Sharing the message of salvation with your neighbors can be done in several
ways: through friendship; service; teaching.
● Using the resource handed to you today, you can begin reading the bible with
neighbors who show a spiritual interest. (If they haven’t, keep loving them and
serving them.)
● Help your neighbors move from this personal work to a bible class and Christian
fellowship (we will be reorienting our Sunday morning bible classes around
fellowship and evangelism).
● By doing these things, you are obedient to God, loving perhaps even your
enemies, and using your time and resources for God to love others into God’s
kingdom.
● As Jesus said, Go and do likewise.