Today on Summit Life, a challenging message from Pastor J.D. Greer.

We tend to put helping the needy around us under the category of charity, right?

And so if you don't help the needy around you, we would say that you are stingy.

But according to Amos, God sees a failure to help the poor as injustice, a more serious thing. Welcome to Summit Life, The Gospel-centered Bible Teaching Ministry of J.D. Greer,

pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Bitevich.

Okay, no one likes being corrected on their behavior.

It's almost always painful,

especially when we know that they're right.

But the truth is, even though it doesn't feel good

to get called out on our sin, it's often the most loving

thing that someone could do for us.

Because until we acknowledge that sin is present and active, we're never going to truly

repent.

What's the old phrase, the first step is acknowledging you've got a problem, right?

Today, Pastor Jady describes a period in Israel's history when God confronted his people about their sin and he

called them to repentance. It's a part of our teaching series titled Come Back to

me and Pastor JD called today's message Unpopular Love. message unpopular love.

Today what I want to do is I want to introduce you to the most unpopular of all the prophets. That is famous Amos, the most despised man in Israel.

Now a couple quick things I want you to note about Amos.

First is that Amos was unusual among the prophets,

and that Amos was not a vocational profit like most of the other

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