Luke 10:27 (New International Version)
27He 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.' "
The story of the good samaritan is probably one of the most recognizable stories that Jesus told. Luke 10:25-37 is where it is found in scripture. Sounds easy enough, but we are called to love our neighbors, not the people living beside you necessarily, but the people that sometimes we would rather not even be in the same room with. I grew up watching Mr. Rogers and his theme song was don't you want to be my neighbor. Interestingly enough whoever Mr. Rogers came across became his neighbor; he was always meeting new people that were different than him! Jesus uses the Jew vs. Samaritan relationship because they despised each other. The Samaritans were looked down by the Jews because they were not pure, they inter-married with gentiles. Jesus describes how we are to care for all people, not just people that we like and people that like us! How about you, who is your neighbor and who is it hard to be neighborly to?
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