Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

There are three themes that course throughout the gospel narrative, generosity, love, and patience. In today's episode,

Paul teaches how we can be generous with our neighbors and share the generosity of Christ in our

environments. Here's Paul.

It is mind-blowing generosity that drives the story.

It's captured in those words in John 3.

For God so loved the world that he, what's the next word?

What's the verb? Gave.

There's always What's the verb? Gave.

There's always an issue for every believer, and it's how would God have me live

with, in the community with my unbelieving neighbors.

And I've been thinking a lot about this

as cultural things are happening that are challenging to Christians

that make us wonder how we fit in our own culture.

And I've been thinking about the biblical story.

You know, one of the things that God wants us to do is to embed our story in the larger

story of redemption. So in a real way, we're living the redemptive story where we live every day.

What is God's story about and how can I relive God's story with my neighbors?

Maybe another way of saying that is how is it that God responded to me what's the

character of his responses to me and how can I mirror how can I image those

responses toward my neighbors because I've been called to be an ambassador

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