Friday, January 25, 2008

Love your neighbour?

When Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan he really did blow many misconceptions about who your neighbour was. The lawyer who asked Jesus 'who is my neighbour', was wanting to somehow limit the command, possibly to the Jewish community. Jesus rejects this view and sees that all people are his neighbour. In fact it is the person who he considers a non-neighbour is the one who truly loves others. We need to be like this and love people who aren't like us.

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