Luke 10:25-37   The question and Jesus' shocking answer.  The question we should ask ourselves, and reevaluate our lives based on what the Good Creator has invited us to join with Him in.  How lives and the whole world is renewed.  Join us as we discuss this important passage.

On a narrative level, Jesus is the one who tells the story. On the theological level, however, the image of God is carried by the one in the ditch. The image of God is reflected by the one who shows compassion and mercy. Those who pass by also bear the indelible mark of the Creator, the Bible reminds us that even when we turn away, God draws near to us. Maybe God -- through Christ -- comes to us as the one in the ditch or maybe as the one who shows compassion and mercy; perhaps God even comes to us as a reminder that the call to care for others frequently goes unheeded as we pass by the cries of those in need of help.

The Parable of the Compassionate Samaritan calls to us from the ditch, binding us up and implicating us at the same time. And the question, the million dollar question “And who is my neighbor?” 

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Pastors Dennis and Heather Drake