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Don’t Miss the Point
Don’t Miss the Point
In the 70’s, a seminary professor assigned his students a research paper on the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Since they didn’t have Google back then, students raced to the library to get the best sources. Knowing about the student stampede, the professor had a man dress up to look like he was injured and lay down on the sidewalk leading to the library. In their mad dash, the students ran around the injured man; some even jumped over him, but none stopped to help. The professor watched the whole thing.
The following week when the students turned in their papers, the professor gathered his students around; then dumped their papers in the trash. He told them what he observed and said it didn’t matter what they wrote, he knew they still didn’t understand the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
We might stand before God with all the right answers about the Bible, but if we’ve not loved our neighbor we’ve missed the point and still don’t understand His Word. “Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me. These will go away into eternal punishment…” (Matthew 25:45-46a).
