June 6th - Who is a Neighbour to me?

Matthew 10:1-20 

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Learning Missional Practices
4. Love Your Neighbour
The Art of Neighbouring: Listen and Listen

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Why did Jesus tell this story?
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus.

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What does this question mean?
“Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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How to handle difficult questions
26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

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The whole thing summarized
27  “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

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Would Jesus make a good Christian?
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

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Round 1 to Jesus; Round 2...
29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

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The Law is on the side of the priest and the Levite.

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It starts with the heart
33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.

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Dirty smelly tiring inconvenient time-consuming costly
34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[e] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’

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Neighbours are about action, not location
36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

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An awkward moment
37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

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Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Unless your name is Mary