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The Neighborly Way

  • Sep 26, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 28, 2023

The lawyer was so busy reading the law and reading others with his own particular biases that he wasn’t reading himself. By asking the lawyer who was neighborly to the victim on the road, Jesus made it clear that when everyone is a neighbor in the eyes of God, parsing that word is a waste of time. What matters is whether we behave as neighbors to them.







 
 
 

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