Love Your Neighbor

The finale of the neighborhood series puts us face to face with the non-negotiable command: “Love Your Neighbor.”  What is love?  Who is my neighbor?  What if I don’t feel like it?  Listen in get a better idea what this command meant when it was first given thousands of years ago, and how it applies to us today.  Deeper obedience to this one command would transform our lives and our neighborhoods.  (Message recorded 06-26-2011)

Key Text: Mark 12:33

Points for Discussion:

1. Which of the characteristics of a biblical neighborhood (above) is most difficult for you to live out?

2. What would have to change in your neighborhood to make it look more like God’s Kingdom?

3. How can you and your church partner with God to make positive changes in your neighborhood?

For further reading: The New Testament quotes and expands the command in Leviticus 19:18, "to love your neighbor as yourself;" see, e.g., Matthew 5:43, 19:19, 22:39; Mark 12:31, 33; Luke 10:27; Romans 13:9 Galatians 5:14; James 2:8.