Dave Runyon
“On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered: ” ‘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.'”
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Luke 10:25-29
When we try to love everyone…we often end up loving no one.
“From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.” Acts 17:26-27 NIV
God has placed us in our specific neighborhoods for a reason.
Are we living at a pace that allows us to be available to those who live around us?
3 Myths:
- Someday things will settle down
2. Someday more will be enough
3. Everyone lives like this
“As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him (Jesus) and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only One Thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Luke 10:38-42
“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day”
– John Ortberg – “The Life You Have Always Wanted”
The Art of Neighboring Right Now Media Study https://www.rightnowmedia.org/Content/Series/392825