Run It Back: Wl1 - Won't You Be My Neighbor

It's not an order of importance kind of thing. It's not I have to love god and then I have to love my neighbor. It's god is going the way that you love me. Is shown. In how you love your neighbor. Now, what I have learned is that most of us, while we probably wouldn't put in the in terms of the way that the lawyer put it in the story, we would still begin to question, well, who's the neighbor? To which I would say, number two, where we get it wrong. Number two, my brother is my neighbor. [00:59:49] (46 seconds)  #LoveReflectsFaith

Can I tell you I was convicted this week? I went out with a pastor. I went to lunch with the pastor this week that if I said his name, everybody in the room would know him and we went and ate at this restaurant and every every employee of the restaurant knew him. And to my knowledge, not one employee of that restaurant went to church anywhere everybody knew him and it wasn't this like status celebrity kind of thing. It was like they knew the stuff he ordered off the menu [01:07:45] (40 seconds)  #KnownByPeople

Now, all of a sudden, it's like, woah, woah, wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm not sure he meant that. That's exactly what he meant. You think as extreme as you want to. That's exactly what he meant And you go, well, well, I just don't think they're my neighbor. He couldn't have gotten anymore extreme to prove to you. He wasn't talking about those who look like you or talk like you or dress like you or acted like you or went to church with you or even believed the same thing as you. Love your neighbor. [01:01:12] (45 seconds)  #NeighborsBeyondLabels

The way that the lawyer would have heard that was to inherit eternal life, I must love god. But for me to love a god whom I cannot see or that I don't have the capacity just to see. I must love my neighbor whom I can see. So, he would he would have heard that not love god then love your neighbor. Love god's important. Love your neighbor's important but not quite as important as number one. He would have heard the way I love god. [00:50:58] (44 seconds)  #LoveGodByLovingNeighbor

I've told y'all this before. I was raised in a church. We had revivals twice a year. We had a summer or a spring revival and a fall revival. We we had we had a couple of revivals a year and all year long, I would hear preachers say, you know, separate yourself from the world. You need to be, you know, you need to sever relationships. You need to and they would do all that kind of stuff and then, all of a sudden, about a month prior to the revival, I would hear bring your sinner friends. But the rest of the year, I wasn't supposed to have any. [01:04:21] (45 seconds)  #InviteNotIsolate

Because if I truly believe that my circle needs to be widened, if I look at my circle and everybody in my circle is also my brother and sister, everybody in my circle are believers my circle needs to be widened. So, here's what I want to encourage you to do today I encourage you. When you go out to eat today, meet your waitress Don't just give em your order. When you when you go out this week, maybe on your job and you meet somebody new, like meet them. [01:09:38] (51 seconds)  #MeetDontJustServe

He said, I I I kinda envy when when I see other other pastors like yourself and and and and man, you're just real compassionate. He said, you you weep over church folks. He said, I'm gonna be honest. I I really I I don't a lot but where I do weep is over the lost. I was convicted wasn't convicted to stop weeping over church folks but I was convicted for more of a heart for the lost. [01:09:02] (36 seconds)  #WeepForTheLost

like they knew the stuff he ordered off the menu because he has spent enough time building the relationship with the staff. He didn't just go in and order but he got to know the staff. He knew the cooks. And he introduced me and I I you know, I'm I'm I'm I got to meet a lot of em but I sat back and and I I looked at him and I said, man, You know everybody in here and he says, because he said, when it comes to church stuff, man, I I like, I I get frustrated with Christians. [01:08:21] (41 seconds)  #BuildRelationshipsFirst