Our text is one of the most famous stories from Luke’s Gospel. A lawyer engages Jesus about the way to “true life,” and he ends up asking Jesus, “who is my neighbor?” The question is more specific: whom am I obligated to love (and who can I leave out? Jesus responds with a story about mercy that the world has been telling ever since.
Are you willing to show mercy to others? We will engage in marvelous experiment together to find out.