Provocative Parables of Jesus, The Good Enemy with Josh Liem

The Good Enemy with Josh LiemLuke 10:25-37This summer, we’ll sit with the parables of Jesus without settling for easy interpretations.  And we’ll start with the most famous and domesticated one.  Have you mastered the parable of the Good Samaritan?  Is that a trick question?For reflection & discussion:Before this week, who did you picture yourself as in this story? The Samaritan, the priest, the lawyer,  the robber, the wounded? Why do you think that is?Who would you find hardest to receive help from? Who is someone you stopped believing is capable of compassion?  What is harder for you — to give help, or to receive it? What does your answer tell you?How would you go about changing your social media / Youtube etc. algorithm to feed compassion and re-humanization of “the other” — a political or theological tribe that you disagree with?As a spiritual practice for this week: go watch/listen to one long interview with someone you disagree with, and hear them speak for themselves.  Some great interviewers that I recommend: Theology in the Raw, The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, The Diary of a CEO (non-Christian).  Imagine their guest as the Samaritan.