Your Neighbor
The whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” Galatians 5:14.
This command is given to us throughout scripture. It often is referred to as the second greatest commandment, appearing alongside the command to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” Mark 12:30.
God has made clear the value He places on this command. How do we then go about obeying this instruction to love your neighbor as yourself?
If you support South Tulsa Baptist Church, you already are showing love to neighbors in our community who receive assistance through our benevolence ministry and our two local ministry campuses, The Ministry Center and Jenks CarePoint. These neighbors may look different than your next-door neighbor. Many of them are homeless. Others are single parents, struggling to make ends meet or are families living under the burden of generational poverty. Still others are refugee families who have been placed right outside our doors here in South Tulsa. All are our neighbors.
If you support South Tulsa, you are also a part of loving your local international neighbors through such programs as ESL classes, the RiSE ministry, our Discover the Story class and our partnerships with Jenks and Bixby Public Schools that allow us to serve student families in many other ways.
If you support South Tulsa, you love your neighbors around the world through missions giving and work with partners in North and Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and Central and East Asia. Through a partnership with Campos de Sueños Church in Guatemala, your neighbors in the farming community of Santa Maria de Jesus can hear the gospel and grow in their faith. Children receive nutritious meals and educational opportunities. Through yet another ministry partnership, your neighbors in Venezuela receive needed medical supplies, medications and hear the Good News of God’s love for them.
Tonight, you have yet another opportunity to love your neighbor. South Tulsa is hosting our annual Community Night. Our guests will include many from local shelters and a variety of social service agencies. Please join us tonight, meet these neighbors, serve them, listen to them, show them love and compassion and fulfill the great commandment to “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
This command is given to us throughout scripture. It often is referred to as the second greatest commandment, appearing alongside the command to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” Mark 12:30.
God has made clear the value He places on this command. How do we then go about obeying this instruction to love your neighbor as yourself?
If you support South Tulsa Baptist Church, you already are showing love to neighbors in our community who receive assistance through our benevolence ministry and our two local ministry campuses, The Ministry Center and Jenks CarePoint. These neighbors may look different than your next-door neighbor. Many of them are homeless. Others are single parents, struggling to make ends meet or are families living under the burden of generational poverty. Still others are refugee families who have been placed right outside our doors here in South Tulsa. All are our neighbors.
If you support South Tulsa, you are also a part of loving your local international neighbors through such programs as ESL classes, the RiSE ministry, our Discover the Story class and our partnerships with Jenks and Bixby Public Schools that allow us to serve student families in many other ways.
If you support South Tulsa, you love your neighbors around the world through missions giving and work with partners in North and Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and Central and East Asia. Through a partnership with Campos de Sueños Church in Guatemala, your neighbors in the farming community of Santa Maria de Jesus can hear the gospel and grow in their faith. Children receive nutritious meals and educational opportunities. Through yet another ministry partnership, your neighbors in Venezuela receive needed medical supplies, medications and hear the Good News of God’s love for them.
Tonight, you have yet another opportunity to love your neighbor. South Tulsa is hosting our annual Community Night. Our guests will include many from local shelters and a variety of social service agencies. Please join us tonight, meet these neighbors, serve them, listen to them, show them love and compassion and fulfill the great commandment to “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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