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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 277 - How to Be a Spiritually Effective Neighbor

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In today's society, we rarely talk to our neighbors, missing opportunities to show warmth and kindness. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar talk about how God has placed us where we are to be intentional in our kindness. The early church thrived in a corrupt society by living amongst their neighbors and being intentional about their community. Christians today should emulate this, combating the modern issue of loneliness by reaching out to their neighbors. Many aspire to be missionaries abroad but ov...

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I'm reading a book where the author was talking about impact in your neighborhood.

0:05.8

He was talking about how they lived in the neighborhood where all the backyard, it was like in a circle

0:10.4

around a lake and all the sliding glass doors were backed up to the lake so everyone

0:16.1

could look into everyone else's house and the evenings, you know, as they're doing stuff.

0:20.4

Hard, hard to commit murder. No kidding.

0:23.3

But he talked about how one neighbor was walking by,

0:29.0

and they just came up to him and they said,

0:30.3

you know what, I just got to tell tell you when I see you and your family every day because the point he was making was that his family does a lot of nothing that was what he said we do a lot of nothing which means they just hang out they play games they they

0:43.9

worship together they read the word they walk they play outside see them in each

0:48.8

other's pajamas yeah yeah yeah yeah shorty Pyjamas.

0:53.6

So anyway, so he goes, he goes, he said, the neighbor comes up to him.

0:59.4

He said, you know what, I just got to tell you, when I see you outside with your family all the time what you are

1:04.6

doing what you guys do I don't know what it is. This is one of those easy moments. But it makes me think of God.

1:14.4

Wow.

1:15.4

It makes me think of God.

1:17.4

He says, I don't know why.

1:19.4

That's awesome.

1:20.4

Did he weep when he said there?

1:21.6

Was you weeping when you were thinking of that?

1:23.8

I'm replaying it.

1:25.7

No, but I'm just, it just hit me, you know, like,

1:27.8

it makes me think of God.

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