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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, January 25th, 2020. Today is also the feast of the conversion of St. Paul. Perhaps one of the most earth-shaking conversions to Christianity that the earth has ever seen.

As you know, St. Paul was born a Pharisee, a very active and devout Pharisee at the time his name was Saul,

and he was in the work of going to Damascus to round up Christians, bring them back to Jerusalem in chains when a light suddenly shown from heaven, he heard a voice from heaven saying, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

Fell from his horse, was struck blind.

And three days later, one of the followers of Jesus Christ came prayed over

him scales fell from his eyes and he was immediately totally belonging to Jesus Christ he asked

to be baptized and from that moment forward he became perhaps the greatest missionary that our church has ever seen.

He traveled through much of the known world, wrote important letters that we read all the time, every Sunday, if not more often than that.

And we still are learning from the profound faith of St. Paul that we celebrate his conversion to

today. So we are talking about hospitality, but first, let's work on memorizing Deuteronomy

chapter 6, verses 4 through 9. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Amen. Here, O Israel of the Holy Spirit, amen.

Hear, O Israel, the Lord is your God, the Lord is one, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

These words which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart, and you shall repeat them

diligently to your sons, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road,

when you lie down, and when you get up. Amen. So hospitality. Yesterday we talked about how Jesus

taught mostly while sitting at a meal and how sharing a meal

with someone in your home establishes a covenant of friendship. Today we're going to look at one specific

story that Jesus told that shows us just what he expects of us when it comes to hospitality, even when we

aren't in our homes. And that story is the parable of the Good Samaritan. Now, as you likely know,

in this story, there is a man that is attacked by robbers. He is beaten up and left on the side of the road to die. Then several people come down that same road and they see him. Several of them are good and well-respected Jewish authorities. But what do they do? They walk by. They even cross to the other side of the road

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