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I’ve only been here a couple months, but I can honestly say that you all have made us feel at home.
I mean if it weren’t for the fact that I wasn’t born here…I would say this was my home town.
I guess I could adopt yall, I’m not sure that’s allowed.
But why not.
So today is a major milestone here in Rock Hall.
Let me proclaim today that Rock Hall is my home town.
You may disagree, but I didn’t put this to a vote.
Now that that is settled and we are officially Rock Hallers.
I want to say, it’s no accident that we share the same home town.
As a matter of fact, if you don’t like it, you can blame God; it’s his fault.
The Bible says so.
God put us here, in fact he put you here too.
God put us here so that you and I who love Jesus could make sure that others knew him.
You know it’s true about where we live that you can’t get lost here.
All the roads lead to dead ends if you go far enough…except hwy 20 and a couple of others.
You would be hard pressed to get lost here, honestly.
Spiritually speaking, that’s what God planned for you and me being here, so that no one would get lost here spiritually; or rather that we would all find our way with Jesus.
We should add that to our town sign…nice people live here and they won’t let you go to hell.
Maybe they won’t let you stay lost would sound better?
Anyway, that’s what we are here for.
This is exactly the inspiration behind our new website:
YourRockHall.Church
I want people to know that we are the place for them to experience life in Jesus.
That here with us, regardless of what a charge is…no one knows what that is except a few of the leaders here…we are the church here - for them.
We may worship in three buildings, but we are the body of Christ.
I want them to know they experience a relationship with God here.
That this is God’s church for them.
I also want us to realize that we are Rock Hall’s church.
That we exist SO the people of Rock Hall know Jesus.
It’s a proclamation that we are Rock Hall’s church.
We are taking responsibility for Rock Hall.
This is our town…and we are it’s church; and we taking responsibility for it.
I believe that’s what Jesus would have for us, in fact I believe that is what we have been charged with.
That’s why I wanted to have this series of messages focused on Jesus’s 2nd commandment.
I’ve titled it: the art of being a neighbor, because sometimes it doesn’t come naturally to all of us.
It’s awkward, it’s difficult.
Some of them don’t seem friendly, and those are the ones you do know.
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The fact is, most people don’t do this well.
But we aren’t most people, we are the people of God and we can all learn the art of being a neighbor.
It’s important to Jesus, it’s important to us.
the art of being a neighbor
This week we are focusing on Neighboring 101…the basics.
I’ve been able to get together with many of you to talk about our town over the last couple of months.
Those of you who have been here longer than I have been have told me stories of how our town has changed over the years.
Yall have told me about the bowling alley on the corner.
The movie theatre that had the latest 6 month old movies showing every week.
You told me about how you stopped at the store after school to get candy.
You told me about how you would leave the store when the fire alarm went out.
I wasn’t here back then, I may not have been born for some of it, but our town has sure changed over the years.
That’s not all, we have changed too.
Think about it, this church used to be filled with people who worked right here, not driving an hour or more to the office.
Most mom’s didn’t have to work or they were able to chose not to so that someone was always at home.
Kids didn’t have to spend 2 hours a day on the bus back then like they do now, high school kids getting home at 6 or 7, later if they work like many do.
People we able to look out for one another, because we were around one another.
Sure there were people who struggled with life’s hurts habits and hangups, but it was harder to slip to the cracks than it is today.
In fact people today are completely forgotten because we spend so much of our lives focused on places other than those who live around us.
Sure out town has changed, but so have we.
WE the church tend to do more for us, than we do for our neighbors.
Think about it.
When was the last church business meeting that you talked about the problems people in our town were struggling with?
The simple fact is, we focus on us and our needs most of the time…what the church needs, what we need fixed, what we would like to plan, you get my point.
It’s not just the church and our town that has changed, families have changed.
our kids are moving away because there aren’t enough jobs.
When people die or move, someone from another state buys their house only to come every other weekend.
So we naturally start to talk more about us…because there are fewer of them to worry about.
Since we got here, we have felt your love and compassion.
I believe yall really care about us.
That’s either true or yall are some great actors.
Either way, you convinced me to make you my new home town.
I know you are loving people, I’m not questioning that.
But the trap we fall into, because we are good loving people, is we get used to loving us.
So when someone like Jesus comes along and says love your neighbor as yourself, we say…I do, and we can all point to people we love.
In fact we are just like the man in the story today, if someone points someone out to you, you would be willing to go and love them.
That’s who you are.
That’s why I love my new home town.
That’s what Jesus was teaching in today’s text as we start this series on the art of being a neighbor.
If you brought your bible today, please open it up to Luke 10.
If you didn’t bring a bible, we have one for you in the pew back in front of you.
While you are turning to Luke 10, let me give you some background.
We are going to look at a famous parable of Jesus.
A parable is a story, an allegory you might say that illustrates a spiritual truth.
Jesus taught this way all the time, he was a story teller.
We are starting in verse 25.
Luke 10:25-37 The Parable of the Good Samaritan
There is a lot in this parable, so much so that we will be back here next Sunday, but today I want us to see the big picture, the 30,000 foot level.
We read it here in vs 25 tells us that he was testing Jesus.
This man wasn’t tryign to learn, he was trying to prove he was smarter than Jesus.
The problem was, Jesus knew the law, so there was no test.
He pushed right back.
Exactly.
Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18.
This guy knew his stuff.
Jesus told him so.
In fact everyone knew this.
Every Jew knew this was the expectations of God.
The hard part was doing it; knowing what to do was easy.
Jesus always did ask us to go deeper.
Deeper is usually found in obedience.
Living deep with Jesus is where we find HIS heart
...but this call to devotion is also where the man’s heart is revealed.
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