Luke chapter 10, if you have a Bible Luke chapter 10. Well, a ton of love to all of you and a warm welcome.

Last week we kicked off a new practice on eating and drinking. What one writer calls radically ordinary hospitality. I love that.

If you were not here, please go back and listen to the podcast as it's the setup for the entire summer.

Over the next three months, we are exploring the three dimensions of radically ordinary hospitality or eating and drinking.

This month is eating and drinking with the loss. That's language from Jesus of Nazareth. If it's a bit weird for you, go back and listen to the podcast.

Next month is eating and drinking with our community. This idea of church around a table, not just church around a stage.

Then we wrap up the summer with eating and drinking with God with the bread and the wine. But last week, we kind of laid all the groundwork.

So you really need to make sure you're in on that conversation. Now we are ready to move on. Holy Spirit come.

In the news this week, Rosanne, enough said. Let's pray.

The show that was supposed to bring together the progressive Portlander-esque urbanite and the more conservative small town American is shut down overnight over the fury of the interweb.

I can't remember a time in my three decades when we were this divided as a nation. Progressive and conservative, Democrat and Republican black and white.

LGBTQ and straight, urban and rural, rich and poor, west coast and east coast and on down the list.

Is there a practice from the way of Jesus, from his life and his teachings to engender healing for our polarized and angry and over the top anxious society?

A practice to tear down the wall between us and them, what the writers of the New Testament call the wall of hostility between our enemy and to turn our enemy into our friend and our stranger into our brother or our sister.

The answer is, of course, yes. On that note, take a look at Luke chapter 10 verse 25.

On one occasion, an expert in the Torah stood up to test Jesus. Never a good idea. Rabbi, he asked, what must I do to inherit eternal life?

Now notice, he's not actually asking a question. This is a test. Does Jesus pass the test or not? Does he have the right theology? All of that.

Well, what is written in the Torah? He replied, how do you read it? Or today's language, what is the Bible saying? What's your interpretation of it?

He answered with a quote from Deuteronomy 6,

Secondly, love your neighbor as what? Yourself. You have answered correctly, Jesus replied, do this and you will live. Love God with every square inch of your life.

Well, then he quotes from Lividicus 19. Secondly, love your neighbor as what? Yourself. You have answered correctly, Jesus replied, do this and you will live. Love God with every square inch of your being and love your neighbor, the person to your right and to your left as yourself.

And you will experience life and life to the full. All that God has for you. And if only that was the end of the story. But 29, he wanted to justify himself. Anybody ever feel that way?

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