Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Hey, good morning church.
[00:00:02] All right, if we haven't met, my name is Michael Tropea. I serve here as the campus pastor. Grateful to be sharing God's word with you today.
[00:00:11] And before we turn to the scripture, I want to put a few things in front of us. One, we as Grace Community Church believe that when you come to faith, you are not saved into isolation, but you are saved into a community of believers. And it is a grace to you for your walk in the Lord to walk with other believers in a local church. And one of the ways we do that is through membering together throughout the scriptures, specifically the New Testament. There's 68, 69 one anothers of scripture bearing with one another, loving one another, forgiving one another. And that only happens within a community that is known and knowing one another. And so we want to invite you into Discover membership which is on October 25th and November. I think it's first or second, it's a two week cycle. And so I know some of you have come to me and said hey, when is the next membering class? And so October 25th, if you wanna go register online, you can do that. But just wanted to put that before you, just to plan ahead for a month ahead.
[00:01:16] And secondly, last week we had our chosen Sunday. And what Chosen Sunday is, it's our partnership with World Vision and where we are raising our hands to be chosen by kiddos over in Zambia in the village of Niawa. And it's a partnership we do with World Vision who yes, provides clean water, yes provides resources and education in many places around the world, but also undergirding all that is the gospel. And so we had about, I think 68 of us within our last week raised their hands from Grace Community ub but also across Grace Community Church at large. Around 425 people said I'm in to towards what God is doing in Zambia through our partnership in World Vision. Today is Reveal Sunday where you see who has chosen you. And so I'll give you some instructions on the way out, but I'm just praising God for us to almost be able to support in full a village in Zambia through the partnership with World Vision. And so, and if you weren't here last week, you can still be a part of that and we'll, I'll set you up at the end of service with that. So grateful to God to do that. Last week Josh Pei was the World Vision representative that shared a little bit from the scripture, Luke 10. But I want to go in more depth in it today as it relates to being a neighbor.
[00:02:40] And so I will do that. If you have your Bibles, I encourage you to get out your bibles. Turn to Luke 10:25 and just if you want to write notes from here, you can. And so as you're turning there we have a, as I've mentioned before, two year old, almost two year old son. And we are in a season of discerning. Hey, what do we want our kid? What will we allow our kiddo to watch on tv?
[00:03:06] And so in that process, I know there's things like Ms. Rachel. And I'm like, not down for that with Ms. Rachel.
[00:03:13] There's different things my daughter watches like, dude, perfect. He's not there yet. It's harmless. But we have been. We're probably. He wants to watch this movie on prime called the Pow Pout Fish. And if you know anything of having kids.
[00:03:27] But one of the shows he often watches is something called Daniel Tiger.
[00:03:31] And Daniel Tiger is based off of a show that was originally run for 30 years. Does anyone know what that show is?
[00:03:39] There we go. There we go. He is one of my dead heroes, Fred Rogers. This is a picture of Fred Rogers.
[00:03:46] I actually had a shirt growing up that said it's all good in the hood and it had a picture of Fred Rogers on it.
[00:03:53] But if you know anything of the show and I was talking to someone this week, it was like, who is Mr. Rogers? And I get it, I'm talking to a room that half of you weren't even born by that time that it ended. But Fred Rogers was a staple for 30 plus years from the late 60s to early 2000s as it relates to public broadcasting, PBS TV show. And the reason why I loved him is because his slogan is Won't you be my neighbor Wasn't just a song that he sung, but it was how he lived his life.
[00:04:26] It's how he lived his life within the interactions, the people he had on his show.
[00:04:30] And there was one instance in 1969 in America. the time, it was still wrestling deeply with racial segregation. And one of those places that division was happening was in public swimming pools.
[00:04:43] And what Mr. Fred Rogers did in the middle of that was something simple but profound on national television. And here's a picture of it from 1969.
[00:04:54] He was cooling his feet in a little plastic pool when Officer Clemens, played by Francois Clemens, a black man, walked by. And this was all a part of the episode. And Rogers invited him to sit down, take off his shoes and put his feet in the same way. Water.
[00:05:12] And if you watch the episode, Clemens initially told him, no, I don't have a towel or anything. And Rogers responded simply, you can share mine, you can share mine.
[00:05:25] Simple but profound. Years later, Clemens reflected on what Rogers was communicating. In moments like that, he said he was making a strong statement. He wasn't just standing behind a podium giving a speech about who deserved to be welcomed. He simply made room for the person he in front of him, someone who looked differently than him or not.
[00:05:48] Oftentimes you saw different needs represented in the show, different socioeconomic backgrounds, but simply this he made room for the person in front of him.
[00:06:02] Most people know the opening song, won't you be my neighbor? But for Fred Rogers, it wasn't simply slogan or a jingle. It was a posture towards people.
[00:06:13] You see, when he was asked about what that phrase meant to him, won't you be my neighbor? He said, it's an invitation for someone to be close to you.
[00:06:23] And I think that's a beautiful doorway into what Jesus is getting at in Luke 10.
[00:06:30] Because interestingly, the lawyer asks almost the opposite question.
[00:06:34] Mr. Rogers Rogers asks, hey, won't you be my neighbor? The lawyer we see says, who is my neighbor?
[00:06:43] And Luke tells us why he's asking that question. Because it says, desiring to justify himself, he's looking for the boundary. Jesus who counts, how far does this command go?
[00:07:00] Who am I actually responsible to extend my love to?
[00:07:06] But what you see and what we'll uncover, that Jesus never gives him a boundary he's looking for.
[00:07:13] Instead, Jesus tells him a parable and he changes the question entirely.
[00:07:18] He doesn't end by asking, so which people are your neighbors? He asks, which of these three prove to be a neighbor?
[00:07:27] Whereas the lawyer wants to know who qualifies, Jesus wants to know whether he'll be one.
[00:07:31] And so that's where we're gonna go this morning. The big idea I want to communicate is what does it actually look like for people who have received the compassion of Jesus to be a neighbor to whoever God puts in front of us?
[00:07:46] What does it actually look like for people who have received the good news of the Gospel and of Jesus to be a neighbor to whoever God puts in front of us?
[00:07:56] So we're gonna start not in the background in the lead up, but we're gonna start in verses 30 through 33.
[00:08:05] But he it says the lawyer, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, and who is my neighbor?
[00:08:15] Jesus replied, a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him Half dead.
[00:08:29] Now, by chance, a priest was going down the road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
[00:08:38] So likewise, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him pass by on the other side.
[00:08:47] But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion.
[00:09:00] So here we have the scene. The parable. Man is beaten, stripped, wallet taken, bloodied up, punched in the face and bloodied on the side of the road, left half dead.
[00:09:12] And then Jesus introduces three characters in the mix. A priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan. Sounds like a setup for a bad joke about to come.
[00:09:24] And who does he bring up? First he brings up a priest.
[00:09:29] Again, this is most likely a Jewish lawyer, but he brings up a Jewish priest.
[00:09:37] You see, this is a religious leader, probably someone who's getting ready to understand the Scriptures to communicate a sermon. Someone who served in the temple, someone who would have known the Scriptures.
[00:09:50] You see, this man probably also would have known Leviticus 19:18, the very command the lawyer quoted previously, you are to love, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
[00:10:01] You see, he knew what God required.
[00:10:06] But Jesus says in the parable in verse 31, when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
[00:10:14] He created distance.
[00:10:17] And so who comes next in the parable?
[00:10:22] Then comes a Levite, another man who probably had a job, had responsibilities, had things to get to, who would be connected to Israel's worship and temple service. He too probably would have known the law, would have known God's commands about loving and mercy and care for others. And Jesus used almost the same language. What does it say when he came to the place and saw him, he passed on the other side.
[00:10:53] Repetition matters him. Both of them saw him.
[00:10:59] The priest saw him, the Levites saw him.
[00:11:02] And then what does it say in verse 33 regarding the Samaritan? He also saw him.
[00:11:08] Three men, same road, same person, beaten, broke, bloody, mess on the side of the road. All three saw the same need.
[00:11:20] But something is different about the Samaritan.
[00:11:24] It says in 33. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. Hold on to those three words. He had compassion.
[00:11:36] Because that's the turning point in the story.
[00:11:40] The difference isn't that the Samaritan noticed something the other two missed. They all saw him.
[00:11:47] The difference is what happened in them when they saw him.
[00:11:52] The difference is what happened in them when they saw him.
[00:11:57] Again, the priest saw him and created distance pass by. Not My problem. The Levites saw him create a distance, not my problem. The Samaritans saw him and he had compassion.
[00:12:09] And there's so much cultural.
[00:12:13] This is a beautiful parable where he's Jesus is putting the Samaritan up against the Jewish person. And I can talk to you for a long time about that. But Jesus intentionally makes the compassionate one the person from across ethnic, religious and cultural device. He makes him sort of the hero.
[00:12:32] He could say about the Samaritan. He's not one of mine. He's not my responsibility. He's not my neighbor. Instead, what does the Samaritan do? He moves towards this person.
[00:12:43] And if you read the Gospels, isn't that the common thread throughout Jesus's ministry?
[00:12:49] Like, it's the pattern we see in and through the life of Jesus.
[00:12:55] In Matthew 9, when Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a Shepherd.
[00:13:05] Matthew 14 he saw crowds and he had compassion and he healed their sick.
[00:13:12] Mark 6 it says he saw them, had compassion and began to teach them.
[00:13:20] Luke 7, Jesus saw a grieving widow, had compassion on her, and raised her son to life.
[00:13:27] And then Jesus tell this parable in Luke 10, the Samaritan saw the wounded man and had compassion on him. Do we see the pattern here in Scripture, Jesus sees the people in front of him and has deep compassion because they are image bearers in need of knowing a savior.
[00:13:46] They are image bearers of God. Every single person needing to have and know a savior.
[00:13:53] And that's where neighboring being a neighbor begins.
[00:13:57] Before ever being a neighbor is about what you do.
[00:14:01] Jesus shows us something that has to happen in the heart.
[00:14:06] Being a neighbor begins with compassion for the person in front of you.
[00:14:13] It begins with compassion for the person in front of you. Why?
[00:14:19] Because before that man on the road was a Jew or a Samaritan, rich or poor. And we don't find out anything really of what he was because Jesus is not getting that. He was trying to say he was a human being made in the image of God and he was suffering and in need.
[00:14:35] And that's where neighboring has to begin for us, as an image bearer in need of knowing and loving them for the image that they bear.
[00:14:48] We don't first ask, hey, are they like me?
[00:14:52] Like, do they, you know, I'll extend compassion as long as they vote Republican like me, as long as they vote Democrat like me. You know, they maybe they got themselves in the situation that themselves. So they deserve to be there.
[00:15:07] They deserve to be bloody. Not my problem.
[00:15:10] Were they born here? Are they, in my similar circles, were they born in North Tyler? South Tyler, Right. Do I agree with them? Do they identify differently than me?
[00:15:21] Did they make choices that contributed to where they are? We don't first ask those things, because if we're looking for a reason to create distance, we can almost always find one.
[00:15:36] But Jesus models for us, and the Samaritan embodies this. Jesus says, see the person and have compassion because of the image in which they bear and they are hurting.
[00:15:46] And compassion refuses to simply look the other way.
[00:15:52] You see, just about a week and a half ago, I was getting ready to leave with my daughter from our neighborhood, and my wife is out there with Abram, and he's running around the front yard, and there's this woman that has been coming through to drop her kids off at school and has a wagon, and she's walking to drop her kids off, and she drops one of them off. One of them's in the wagon on the way back, and she stops and starts to engage in a conversation with my wife.
[00:16:21] And then this woman starts to share her story and welcomes my wife into sharing her story. And here's what we learn. That she lives about a mile away, not having a car in the current moment. She just moved here. Her husband is incarcerated, but she is just trying to bring every day her kids to school so they'll have a safe environment in which to live. And she's trying to make the hand that she has the best hand as possible.
[00:16:50] And so she invited us into her story. And my wife, probably about 10 minutes after that happened, she's like, can I give you a call?
[00:16:59] And so she begins to share with me her story. And the first thing she shares is this. How can we love her?
[00:17:06] How can we love her? Why is that her first question? Because why? She has compassion for her.
[00:17:16] Like, different stories, different socioeconomic situations, different family makeups.
[00:17:24] And my wife could have said, hey, nice meeting you, and closed the door and gone on with her day.
[00:17:30] She could have seen her without really seeing her. Instead, she called me and she said, how can we love them?
[00:17:39] Because isn't that the question that Jesus is trying to produce in this lawyer?
[00:17:43] Not, does this person count as my neighbor? Not is this person really my responsibility? But how can I be a neighbor to the person who God has put in front of me?
[00:17:55] And here's where it gets personable.
[00:17:58] Who have you seen but kept on the other side of the road?
[00:18:03] Who have you seen and kept on the other side of the road? Who have you seen and created distance. Like, if I get too involved with them, it'll be too messy for me.
[00:18:15] Maybe they're inconvenient. Maybe their hand is messy. Maybe they're very different from you.
[00:18:21] Maybe getting involved would interrupt your schedule or complicate your life. Maybe they've hurt you.
[00:18:29] Who have you seen but kept on the other side of the street?
[00:18:34] Because here's the tension.
[00:18:38] Compassion is easy when it costs us nothing.
[00:18:42] We can feel bad for someone and keep on walking.
[00:18:47] We can notice a need to keep our schedule, and we keep our schedule. We can even pray God bring someone into their life to help them when maybe he's we are that somebody.
[00:19:00] Because as Jesus points out in the example of the Samaritan, he the Samaritan saw him and moved towards this beaten man because he saw the image bearer in need. And he and moved towards them.
[00:19:14] And so being a neighbor begins with compassion for the person in front of you.
[00:19:21] And that's where Jesus goes next in this parable. The Samaritan's compassion doesn't just remain a simple feeling.
[00:19:29] It costs something.
[00:19:32] It costs him something. And so my second big point is being a neighbor has a cost to it.
[00:19:40] We'll see that in verse 34 and 35.
[00:19:46] Jesus says he went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
[00:19:54] Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
[00:20:01] And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, take care of him and whatever more you spend, I will repay you. And when I come back church. Let's not miss out on those details here.
[00:20:17] Jesus could have simply said the Samaritan helped him.
[00:20:22] Helped him could have said that, but he doesn't. He slows the story down, allows us to read into the actions. Why? To show us the compassion.
[00:20:33] What compassion actually cost this man?
[00:20:37] Like, let's break it down. It says he went to him. It cost him convenience.
[00:20:42] Like this was a person. The Samaritan was on a journey. He had a place to go. He had responsibilities that needed to be met. He had to be somewhere. But somebody else's need interrupted his plans. There's a cost to his convenience.
[00:20:57] What else does it say? It says he bound up his wounds.
[00:21:01] It cost him proximity and touch.
[00:21:04] Like this wasn't a clean person and situation.
[00:21:09] The man had been beaten and left half dead. There was blood, there were wounds.
[00:21:15] Whereas the priest and Levite, they saw all of that. The Samaritan got close enough to get their Hands dirty and in the mess cost him proximity and touch.
[00:21:26] What else does it say? Pouring on oil and wine. It cost him resources.
[00:21:31] These could have been provisions for the journey.
[00:21:34] And now he uses what belonged to him for the sake of someone else.
[00:21:40] It says he set him on his own animal. It cost him comfort.
[00:21:45] If the wounded man is riding, the Samaritan is walking. He gives up what was carrying him in order to carry someone else.
[00:21:52] It cost him comfort.
[00:21:55] It says it brought him to an inner.
[00:21:59] That cost him his time.
[00:22:02] His journey is now delayed. His schedule has been rearranged. Whatever he thought the day was going to look like, it doesn't look like that anymore. It cost him his time.
[00:22:13] And it says it and simply, it says and took care of him. It cost him his personal attention.
[00:22:18] He doesn't just get the guy somewhere safe, hand him off and said, you're good.
[00:22:23] He stays.
[00:22:25] He enters into the man's need. Personally cost him personal attention. It costs him money. He took out two denarii. Two denarii represented roughly two days worth of wages. For some, that's a lot of money.
[00:22:40] Compassion has now moved from his heart to his time to his wallet.
[00:22:46] And maybe the most striking one. Whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back. It cost him a future commitment.
[00:22:54] Like, think about that. The stranger's need has not just interrupted his today, it's taken up part of his tomorrow.
[00:23:03] Tim Keller wrote about this idea when he shared this quote. Why would someone risk his safety, upend his schedule, deplete his bank balance, and become dirty and bloody to help a person of another race and social class?
[00:23:20] See, that's what Jesus is showing us here.
[00:23:23] Like being a neighbor has a cost.
[00:23:26] Cost, convenience, time, money, comfort, touch, personal attention sometimes create a commitment of future plans.
[00:23:37] And here's what the parable reveals to me.
[00:23:41] He allows the Samaritan, allows someone else's need to rearrange his knife. And that challenges me.
[00:23:46] That's where it gets uncomfortable for me.
[00:23:49] Because I can be compassionate as long as compassion fits neatly into my schedule.
[00:23:57] I can care as long as it doesn't inconvenience me too much.
[00:24:03] I can notice somebody else's need and even feel something deeply for them.
[00:24:09] But the real test of my heart often comes when meeting that need requires me to give something up, like money, resources.
[00:24:18] So maybe the question isn't simply, do I have compassion?
[00:24:23] Maybe it's what am I willing to let compassion cost me?
[00:24:28] What am I willing to let compassion cost me?
[00:24:32] Because compassion that never cost me anything can remain nothing. More than a feeling.
[00:24:38] You see, the Samaritan's compassion moved from his heart to his hands, from his hands to his resources, from his resources to his schedule, and from his schedule into his future. That's what it cost him to be a neighbor to this person.
[00:24:57] Jesus ends the story in verses 36 and 37 by asking, which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?
[00:25:09] And the lawyer responds, the one who showed him mercy.
[00:25:13] And Jesus simply said, you go and do likewise.
[00:25:17] Remember, the lawyer started by asking, hey, who is my neighbor?
[00:25:21] Who counts? How far does love go?
[00:25:26] But Jesus flips that. Not who qualifies as my neighbor, but will I be one?
[00:25:33] And that brings us back to Keller's question. Why would someone risk their safety, upend their schedule, spend their money, get dirty and bloody for someone completely unlike him?
[00:25:45] Because they have received first mercy that they didn't deserve.
[00:25:50] They have received mercy that they didn't deserve because this is the gospel church. Like Jesus moved towards us, like we sinned against a holy, holy God.
[00:26:05] And God could have stayed a long way off and say, figure it out. But he knew we never could. So in love, Jesus came.
[00:26:13] He didn't remain at a distance in compassion. He took on flesh. He entered our brokenness.
[00:26:22] And his compassion didn't merely cost him time, money or comfort. It cost him his very life at the cross. Jesus gave himself for people who could never repay him.
[00:26:36] So we don't go and do likewise to earn his mercy. We go because we've already received it. That's the people that go and love and do likewise because they have received love that they never deserved.
[00:26:51] The love God requires exposes us. The love God offers rescues us. And the love God has shown us changes the way we move and neighbor with others.
[00:27:01] You see, that's why we, as Grace Community Church, put these opportunities in front of you often.
[00:27:07] We don't expect everyone to do everything, but we do put before you partnerships like chosen to serve your neighbors around the world.
[00:27:20] That's why many of you has raised your hands in stepping into it of being a neighbor to someone over in Zambia that you may never meet. You might just get a picture of.
[00:27:29] But don't think your neighbor is just someone across an ocean. Look to the right and left of you. These that you are a part of a local membering body with are your neighbors too.
[00:27:41] When you get home, maybe you're in an apartment, like the people up above you, below you, to the sides of you, those are your neighbors or across the street from your home or in your home, your spouse, your kids, those are your neighbors. In different parts of the city are your neighbors.
[00:28:02] It's why we put before you partnerships we have in our local community with Bethesda or St. Paul's or being a mentor at Mentoring alliance or loving college students at Boathouse. It's why we call you to go around the world to share the hope of Christ.
[00:28:18] Because all of our people, we come in contact. We are our neighbors. And are we neighboring with the people God has put in front of us?
[00:28:28] Not because any of those things make Jesus love us more, but because we have been so profoundly loved by Jesus that his mercy can do nothing but overflow to the person in front of us.
[00:28:40] And that brings me back to one of my dead heroes in the faith, Fred Rogers.
[00:28:48] Every episode began with that slogan, won't you be my neighbor?
[00:28:56] And Rogers explained he meant it's an invitation for somebody to be close to you.
[00:29:01] Maybe that's a pretty good picture of how we leave the passage. The lawyer came asking Jesus, who is my neighbor? Jesus sends him away asking something entirely different. How can I be one? And maybe that's a question you need to ask yourself today. Am I being the neighbor God has called me to and loving others as I love myself?
[00:29:22] So church this week, who has God put in front of you?
[00:29:28] Who is he inviting you to move towards and not create distance?
[00:29:34] Maybe you just need eyes to see your neighbor.
[00:29:39] Maybe you know someone who is hurting and God has. You're praying to somebody else steps in, but he's calling you to step in.
[00:29:48] Maybe it's a kid who has walked away from the Lord. Maybe it's a boss that maybe has looked past you that God is calling you to love.
[00:29:57] Maybe it's a neighbor you have been living in your neighborhood for 15 years that you never have gone across the across the street, ring the doorbell. They'll probably look at you on ring and try to analyze you from there, right?
[00:30:11] But you need to bring a meal to them and get to know them.
[00:30:16] Let's not only see them and pass across on the other side. Let's see move towards them. Because we have been first loved with a love we didn't deserve and enter into the mess because that is an expression of God's love to them.
[00:30:33] See, move. It has a cost and it is worth it. Why? Because we have a savior who came near to us at immeasurable cost.
[00:30:44] And you could be here and you could be like, hey, that sounds good. I don't know this Jesus that you're talking about, let me kind of just lay it simply out before you. We sinned against a holy God. We thought we were good on our own and we didn't need God. So we sinned. And now we have been is separated from God's relationship with God. But God loved us so much that he sent Jesus to walk perfectly on our behalf.
[00:31:09] And Jesus was bloodied, he was broken. And he took on the curse that our sin deserved.
[00:31:15] And he was. He died on a cross, but rose again triumphantly. And now he's seated at the right hand of the Father to give us reunion with a God in the image bearer that we are.
[00:31:28] And we are called to enter into that love. And you can know the love of God through Jesus today if you submit to him as Lord and Savior. And you can not only have eternal life with him, but you can have the kingdom of God today in you and work through you in freedom.
[00:31:42] Because he has come close not only as neighbors, not only as friends, but he calls us in to be sons and daughters of the Most High God.
[00:31:51] And we have an opportunity to love God with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength and love others as ourselves. So let us be that and leave this place loving as God has called us to love church. Let's pray together.
[00:32:05] God, I thank you so much.
[00:32:09] I thank you so much that you stepped into our broken reality. You didn't just stay at a distance and say figure it out. But God, you loved us so much that you sent Jesus to take on our sin, our brokenness.
[00:32:30] That while we were still sinners, you died for us to bring us back into holy loving relationship with the Father. If we submit to you as Lord and Savior and God, if there are anyone here today who does not know you as Lord and Savior, I pray that they know that they are loved in God and they submit to you as Savior today.
[00:32:50] But God, that that relationship causes us to live, to see people, to move differently and to love others, to be a neighbor with compassion for the image bearer that they are. And I pray that people know that we are ambassadors for Christ because of how we love people.
[00:33:10] How we just don't move and create distance, but how we enter into the fray for those that are here, those that are near, and for those who have yet to hear around the world, God, and it's all because you have first given us mercy and grace that we didn't deserve.
[00:33:27] And so God, we as we sing this next song of song of crowning you God, that's the place that our love is derived the source that our love is derived from because you first loved us.
[00:33:39] Thank you Jesus for all you are.
[00:33:42] We love and praise you in Jesus name. Amen. Church Let us stand and sing in response to the Word today.
[00:33:49] Church that's our call for us to go and do likewise because we have someone who came first to us.
[00:33:58] And so the source of our going is because we have been first loved by Christ. And so that's my call to you today. Who has God put in front of you that maybe you've created distance that you keeps. He's calling you to move towards today and you go into likewise in love as God has called you to love. One of the things that is special about this weekend is after the chosen Sunday.
[00:34:22] This is Reveal Sunday.
[00:34:24] So maybe you raised your hand last week to partner with World Vision. Well, it's Reveal Sunday and out in our commons area you can see who chose you.
[00:34:35] And this was a beautiful moment for us in our family two years ago that we get to see and be chosen by double and be a part of his life. So I want to encourage you if you raised your hand last week to partner with World Vision to see who your kiddo is that chose you and just be a part of the relationship that God is inspiring as you walk and live this out. But also if you weren't here with us last week and you want to be a part of this, you can still raise your hand and take your picture to be chosen if you want to be a part of what God is doing there as well. Hey Church, we love you. Have a great week of worship. God bless.
