Out of Context Tuesday: Good Samartian & the failure of our religion - A Higher Things® Video Short

Sure, Jesus! I'm all for helping my neighbor...but who's my neighbor? Our faith is not about checking boxes of good works. If that's how you're going about living your religion, justifying yourself by the ways you've helped your neighbor, you're doing it wrong. When unbelievers are more merciful than you, it's time to repent.

[lc-mschristian]

Thanks Pastor. Love when Scripture is put back into its context. Things have been repeated wrong for so long the truth seems strange when heard for the first time! God's peace be with you

[ATAT]

Last Sunday at my local church here in Finland, they taught this parable, and said that it means something like "we should support open borders, be tolerant and embrace immigrants". Your view point makes much more sense.

[Robofish]

Ouch! That was some good law (and gospel). I wish I had heard this a long time ago. When it comes to man's religion I am way behind the pack of "do-gooders". Praise to be to God that it is what Jesus has done and not my works.

[barefootanimist]

Pastor George, have you spoken to the passages about "whited sepulchres, " or (is there some mention about) "religion worn like fine clothes?" I've been doing a lot of thinking about sepulchres, lately.

[sarco]

Shouldn't we look at this parable as both a guide and a mirror? A guide, because we really are called to love our neighbor as ourselves, and a mirror, because when we realize what this actually requires we see that we fall short and thus can't justify ourselves by our obedience?