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37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ (Matthew 22:37-39) Being a bad neighbor … What is the momentum in our culture toward being a bad neighbor? But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. Jeremiah 29:7 Practical steps to loving your actual neighbors … Chris McKinney - Author, Place for a Purpose Before we talk about how we should neighbor, we first must understand what story we are living in. In our culture, to be a good neighbor is to leave one’s neighbor(s) alone. To be a good neighbor in God’s story is to be someone who moves toward his or her neighbors in love. So we need to move toward them in love, mindful of a culture where, at least on the surface, they want (and expect) to be left alone. Creation: The First Neighborhood In God’s story, we embrace the reality that we are created for relationship with God and others. We don’t leave our neighbors alone, we move toward them. Fall: Neighborly Discord Adam and Eve’s rebellion ushered into their neighborhood a new relational reality of Isolation, fear, and suspicion of both God and neighbors. Redemption: Placed for a Purpose Your address is not an accident, and neither is your neighbor's. Restoration: Neighborhoods Put Right We know where the story is headed and that influences how we live right now. What would change if God answered your prayers for your neighbors and neighborhood? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roguetabletalks/message