The Good Samaritan

Engage

Think long and hard about how you can do your best to get their attention.What is the hardest thing for you to put down when it’s time to go to school, work, dinner, etc.?

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Tension

What you’re doing here is bringing up some kind of a problem. The tension you create should make people lean in and give them an opportunity to anticipate the tension being resolved.

Sometimes, it is hard to love other people. Especially if they’re not nice, different from you, or maybe you just don’t know them very well.

Truth & Application

Once you’ve engaged the congregation and presented some kind of tension, you can now go to God’s Word in order to resolve the tension. The next section, Application, should happen naturally as you are teaching, and should come to a point after you teach through Scripture.

Context

This guy was asking a trick question, he didn’t really want to know Jesus’ answer. He was trying to trap him.

More than that, he’s looking for a gold star, a pat on the back, from Jesus, for knowing the right answer.

Luke 10:25–37 NIrV

One day an authority on the law stood up to put Jesus to the test. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to receive eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you understand it?” He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Love him with all your strength and with all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ ” “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do that, and you will live.” But the man wanted to make himself look good. So he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. Robbers attacked him. They stripped off his clothes and beat him. Then they went away, leaving him almost dead. A priest happened to be going down that same road. When he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. A Levite also came by. When he saw the man, he passed by on the other side too. But a Samaritan came to the place where the man was. When he saw the man, he felt sorry for him. He went to him, poured olive oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey. He took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins. He gave them to the owner of the inn. ‘Take care of him,’ he said. ‘When I return, I will pay you back for any extra expense you may have.’ “Which of the three do you think was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by robbers?” The authority on the law replied, “The one who felt sorry for him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do as he did.”

Luke 10:25-

A Neighbor Can Be Anybody

Hook

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Look

The Samaritan and Jewish people didn’t live near each other

The Samaritan would have been the “bad guy” in the minds of the people listening to Jesus.

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A neighbor can be anybody

Who are your neighbors?

Who is hard for you to love?

It’s All About Being A Good Neighbor

Hook

Give someone next to you a shoulder rub

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Look

The teacher of the law was asking the wrong question.

Took

It’s all about finding out how you can be a good neighbor

Who is around you?

It’s all about finding out how you can be a good neighbor.

Who are you able to serve?

Inspiration

This is the time where you can ask great questions. Could be called “reflection.”

Bottom Line: Jesus wants us to be a good neighbor to everyone

Action

Think through what you want them to do in light of your message and spell it out plainly to them.