A Firm Foundation – Sermon 8

The gospel and the church by their very nature and purpose are counter-cultural. It is vitally important to affirm that we are committed to Christ above our culture and that our engagement must be shaped by biblical thinking and values and must resist what is incompatible to Christ in our culture. However, It is not enough that the church should counter the values of the dominant culture. We must be a counter-culture for the common good. We want to be radically distinct from the culture around us and yet, out of that distinct identity, we should sacrificially serve neighbors and even enemies, working for the flourishing of people, both here and now, and in eternity. To that end, as we continue in our series “A Firm Foundation”, we wrap up our three-week focus on the subject of Mission this coming Sunday by turning to Luke 10:25-37. “The Definition Of Neighbor”. We’ll take a look at how Jesus turned the table on a very skilled attorney to reshape his imagination of what constituted neighbor.