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Loving our neighbors is certainly ‘good, right, and salutary,’ but is it enough?

Don’t we also need to “share the Gospel of Jesus” with them?

Of course that is excellent and desired! But loving others is a good unto itself and shines a light that ultimately brings glory to God. Our good deeds draw attention to our good God.

SCRIPTURES

• 1 Peter 2:4-12
• Matthew 5:13-16

Ok, so we are called to “love our neighbors,” but for some of us, we may wonder if God really knows MY neighbor and how they aren’t, well, very ‘lovable.’

Peter encourages the elect exiles in Asia Minor to “love one another earnestly from a pure heart.”

This is a beautiful invitation, but the verses leading up to that invitation are profound and reveal how God works inside us to make that kind of earnest love possible.

SCRIPTURES

• 1 Peter 1:13-25
• Luke 6:27-33

We are called to relate to our neighbors. But what does that look like in this fallen world?

God calls His people to pursue the welfare of the people and place right around us (i.e., our “neighbors”), even when they are exiled and treated poorly.

We have been made God’s people by the blood of the Lamb, Jesus, and live by Grace.

Now, we use that reality to set our vision of how to live for others in grace.

SCRIPTURES

• Jeremiah 29:4-7
• 1 Peter 3:8-13