40acts: The Lent Generosity ChallengeSample

There‘s a long history in the Bible of caring for strangers and foreigners. The Israelites are instructed to ‘love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt’ (Deuteronomy 10:19) even Jesus Himself was a refugee when Mary and Joseph were forced to leave Israel to escape the wrath of Herod. 

God asks us to love our neighbour. The verse doesn't stipulate terms and conditions as to who that is, this commandment is deliverately wide enough to include people that would normally be outside of our circle. Today we're learning to love without borders, whether they are physical or otherwise.

Jesus illustrated what this looked like when He told the parable of the Good Samaritan, teaching us that loving our neighbour means loving those who are not like us. The Samaritan in the parable had mercy on the injured man, despite the strongly antagonistic cultural barriers between them. How can we, as Jesus said, ‘[g]o and do likewise’? 

 Find more about today’s 40acts challenge on our blog:   

https://40acts.org.uk/act-26-without-borders/