Caring for our neighbour
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009The Good Samaritan: Sermon 14 June, 2009
The Rev Liellie Mclaughlin
Luke 10:25-37
Theme Introductory question: Do you feel that being a Christian is to be like Spiderman – ready to solve everybody’s problems? Has your Spiderman costume got a few tears as you tried to dart from problem to problem?
Caring for our neighbour
Do you get bombarded by appeals for help? On TV there are countless organisations asking you to sponsor children overseas; we see the tragic tsunami and we grieve; we send money to the victims of the bushfires, and here at church we make tea for the homeless people and gather beanies and socks for Byron place – we sit and pray with the people attending the Welcome centre; but we struggle – is this enough? Who are we called to – the child with the big, brown, begging eyes on our TV screen; our neighbour whose wife has Alzheimer’s or the sick person in our church?
Let us look at the story today from three points of view:
- the priest and Levite;
- The Good Samaritan as symbolised by Jesus and
- our own response.