Today's Sermon:
“That’s Not the Answer I was Expecting!”
Love Your Neighbor: Week Three

Parable: Who is My Neighbor?

Five-fold depiction of a Neighbor:

1)A Neighbor is .....

2) A Neighbor Acts with ......

3)A Neighbor Acts in Compassion Toward ....

4)A Neighbor Acts in Compassion at .....

5)A Neighbor Acts in Compassion at Personal Cost

“Our failure to respond wholly to the first and second commandments- that is, the fact that we do not love God with heart and soul and mind and strength and our neighbors as ourselves-…is a function of the fall…these two great commands expose our lostness, our moral inability and culpability, and thus multiply our explicit transgressions.”
-D.A. Carson, Love in Hard Places

“A merely religious person, who believes God will favor him because of his morality and respectability, will ordinarily have contempt for the outcast. ‘I have worked hard to get where I am, and so can anyone else!’ This is the language of the moralist’s heart. ‘I am only where I am by the sheer and unmerited mercy of God. I am completely equal with other people.’ That is the language of the Christian’s heart. A sensitive social conscience and a life poured out in deeds of mercy to the needy is the inevitable sign of a person who has grasped the doctrine of God’s grace.”
-Tim Keller, Ministries of Mercy