Let Me Introduce You to Your Neighbor

In this message, Bro. Don takes us to the parable of the Good Samaritan, framed by a lawyer's attempt to test Jesus with the question of how to inherit eternal life. He organizes the message around three words: misery, mentality, and ministry. The man in the ditch represents a world that has been beaten, stripped, and left for dead, and the priest and Levite represent religion and rules that pass right by without helping. The Samaritan, the least likely hero in the eyes of his culture, stops, binds up the wounds, and pays the full cost of care without being asked. Bro. Don closes by making it personal, reminding us that we were once the man in the ditch, and that Christ was the one who came out of his way to find us, bind us up, and carry us to safety, which means we have no excuse for passing by anyone who needs the same.