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Will You Be My Neighbor | Part 3 · Rewind

Rock Point Church

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 27, 2020

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 27, 2020 · 74 min watch · 2 min read

Will You Be My Neighbor | Part 3

Devotional days

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7

Scripture in this message

Luke 10
Luke 10:33
Luke 5
Luke 5:12
Luke 5:17
Luke 5:18

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

Loving others the way Jesus calls us to will often look crazy — inconvenient, disruptive, and costly — but it always leads to reward.

God invites us into a dangerous, all-in kind of love for the people He puts on our path. Following Jesus was never meant to be comfortable or safe — it will cost us time, money, reputation, and plans — but on the other side of that risk is a reward and a wonder beyond anything we could imagine.

Key points

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1Loving others often looks crazy to the people watching.
Pastor Daniel tells the story of a pest control salesman who showed up at his door, how he felt God nudge him to engage instead of brushing him off, and how he ended up offering to pay for a service he didn't need if the man would just come to church. His wife watched the whole exchange on the Ring doorbell camera, amused that he'd ended up in another one of these conversations.
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2The good Samaritan is moved by compassion, and that compassion is meant to lead to action, not just prayer.
Working through Luke 10:33-35, Pastor Daniel notes the Samaritan sees the wounded man and feels compassion before he does anything. He argues that different people are wired to feel that pull toward different needs, and that when we feel it we're called to actually invest — not just say 'I'll pray for you' as a way to exit the conversation.
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3Loving others will be inconvenient — it interrupts an ordinary day.
He turns to Luke 5:12-14, where Jesus, in the middle of an unremarkable day before His public ministry has even launched, is approached by a man with leprosy and simply touches and heals him, even though touching him would make Jesus ceremonially unclean. Pastor Daniel connects this to how busy and distracted modern life is, and challenges the room to ask God each morning for eyes to see interruptions as divine appointments.
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4Loving others will be disruptive — it breaks into what we're already doing.
In Luke 5:17-20 four men dig through a roof to lower their paralyzed friend in front of Jesus mid-teaching, and rather than finishing His point, Jesus stops to heal and forgive the man. Pastor Daniel ties this to Galatians' teaching that once we belong to Christ our lives, schedules, and plans are no longer our own to protect from disruption.
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5Loving others will be expensive — it will cost us something real.
He points out that Jesus' declaration that the paralyzed man's sins were forgiven cost Him his reputation with the religious leaders in the room, just as the Samaritan paid out of his own pocket for a stranger. Pastor Daniel confesses his own struggle trusting God with money even while trusting Him with eternity, and warns against a comfortable, cultural Christianity that never actually costs anything.
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6Loving others will always be rewarding.
He closes the loop on the pest-control story: months later the salesman, Ethan, resurfaces, connects with him after his marriage falls apart, and they spend hours in conversation and coffee, with Pastor Daniel simply listening and walking with him the way someone once walked with Daniel through his own marriage struggles. He frames the reward not as knowing the outcome but as the deep sense of wonder and worship that comes from saying yes.

A story from life

Pastor Daniel shares about his daughter's serious brain infection around Christmas, the flooding of his home, and how the Rock Point congregation stepped in to serve his family practically.

A story from life

Pastor Daniel recounts answering his Ring doorbell to a pest-control salesman named Ethan, engaging him in a conversation about faith, and buying the service to invest in a relationship.

Application

Pastor Daniel's charge is that saying yes to love will look inconvenient, disruptive, and expensive — but we say yes anyway.

Notice where your heart is drawn
Pay attention to the needs and people that stir compassion in you specifically, even if others walk past them without a second thought — that pull may be God showing you where to invest.
Say yes to the inconvenient interruption
Ask God each morning to let you see interruptions — a stranger at the door, an unexpected conversation — as divine appointments rather than annoyances to avoid.
Let your plans be disrupted
Recognize that following Jesus means your schedule, calendar, and finances are no longer fully yours to protect; make room for someone who lands on your path even mid-task.
Be willing to pay, not just pray
When compassion moves you, move past saying 'I'll pray for you' and consider what it would look like to actually invest time, money, or energy into the person in front of you.
Build margin for people God puts on your path
Slow down and create space in your week — even something as simple as a phone call or coffee — so you're able to walk with someone through their mess, the way someone once walked with you.

Take it into your week

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Scripture in this message

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“So if you have a bible, open up to Luke chapter 10. I wanna look at the end of this story, and then I want to use it to kind of jump into another story”
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“In Luke chapter 10, in verse 33, I want to look at a couple of things at the end of this story where he talks about this good Samaritan. Verse 33 says, Then the despised Samaritan came along”
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“So if you have your Bibles, flip back a few chapters to Luke chapter five, and we're going to see two miracles, two healings that Jesus does”
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“And in Luke five, it starts with him calling some of his first disciples, but what we're going to read in verse 12, 's just going through life. He's just going through an ordinary day. And verse 12 says, in one of the villages, Jesus met a man with an advanced case of leprosy”
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“So if you jump a few verses down, it's gonna get into an entirely different miracle that'll show us the last couple things we'll close on. Verse 17. It says that one day, while Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of religious law were sitting nearby”
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“Verse 18, some men carrying a paralyzed man on a sleeping mat came carrying a paralyzed man on a sleeping mat. They tried to take him inside to Jesus, but they couldn't reach him because of the crowd”
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“Verse 20, seeing their faith. Jesus said to the man, young man, your sins are forgiven”
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“Verse 21. It says, but the Pharisees and the teachers of religious law said to themselves, who does he think he is? That's blasphemy. Only God can forgive sins”
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“Paul says it this way in Galatians chapter nine or Galatians chapter six verse nine. He says, so let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time, we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up”

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Day 1

The parable of the good Samaritan is famous, but familiarity has a way of dulling its edge. Pastor Daniel pointed out something that can be easy to miss: the Samaritan's act looked irrational. He stopped for a stranger on a dangerous road, touched someone considered untouchable, spent his own money, and handed his reputation and schedule to a person he would never see repay him. Nobody would have blamed him for walking past. Two respected religious figures already had. This is where the sermon cuts close. The obstacle to loving our neighbors well is rarely a shortage of people who need help. It is the quiet, reasonable-sounding voice that says this is not a good time, this is not my problem, or this will make me look foolish. Pastor Daniel named that voice for what it is — not wisdom, but fear dressed up as practicality. Jesus told this story in response to someone asking who qualifies as a neighbor. The answer He gave was not a category but a posture: the neighbor is the one who showed up. That is the invitation for us too. Not to have it all figured out, but to be the kind of person who stops. You do not need a plan — you need willingness. And willingness, as it turns out, is exactly what Jesus models throughout the Gospels.

For reflection

When have you talked yourself out of stopping for someone because it felt irrational or inconvenient — and what did that feel like afterward?

Pray

Pray for eyes to see the people God has already placed on your path today, and for the courage to stop.

Day 2

Before the Samaritan did anything practical, something happened on the inside. Luke records that when he saw the wounded man, he felt compassion. Pastor Daniel paused on this and made a simple but important observation: compassion is the starting point. It is not the finish line — action still has to follow — but you cannot get to costly love without it. Pastor Daniel also offered this as a diagnostic tool: notice where your heart is genuinely pulled. Not where you feel obligated, not where it looks impressive to serve, but where something in you actually stirs. That stirring is often the way God is directing your investment of time, energy, and care. This is worth sitting with honestly. Compassion is not the same as sentimentality. It is not a warm feeling about need in the abstract. The Greek word Luke uses here carries the idea of being moved in your gut — something visceral, not just intellectual. The Samaritan was not unmoved and chose to act anyway; he was moved and then acted accordingly. If you find yourself regularly unmoved by the people around you, that might be an invitation to ask God to soften what has grown hard — not as a criticism, but as an honest prayer. Ask Him to let you see what He sees when He looks at the person next door, the coworker who seems fine, or the stranger you pass without a second thought.

For reflection

Where have you noticed a genuine pull of compassion recently — and what, if anything, did you do with it?

Pray

Pray that God would stir real compassion in you for a specific person or group He has placed near you.

Day 3

Pastor Daniel used the healing of the man with leprosy in Luke 5 to illustrate something uncomfortable: the greatest ministry moments in your life will almost certainly arrive disguised as random interruptions. Jesus was not looking for a healing encounter that day. The man showed up and interrupted whatever Jesus had planned. And Jesus stopped. What makes this story striking is that leprosy made a person ceremonially unclean. To touch someone with leprosy was to absorb their social exclusion, their ritual outsider status, and — in a practical sense — their risk. Jesus reached out and touched him anyway. He did not have to touch him to heal him; the Gospels show Jesus healing people from a distance. The touch was intentional. It was the part that cost something beyond time. Pastor Daniel's point is direct: loving your neighbors will be inconvenient. The nudge will not come at a convenient moment. It will land in the middle of your Tuesday, your commute, your packed afternoon. The question is not whether interruptions will happen — they will. The question is whether you have built enough margin in your actual life to be interruptible. Not margin for rest as a personal strategy, but margin as an act of surrender — a way of holding your schedule loosely enough that God can reach in and redirect it when someone needs you to stop.

For reflection

What would it look like, practically, to hold tomorrow's schedule loosely enough to be genuinely interruptible?

Pray

Pray for the willingness to let God interrupt your plans today — and for the trust that His interruptions are never wasted.

Day 4

The scene in Luke 5 where four men lower their paralyzed friend through a roof is one of the most vivid pictures of disruptive, determined love in the Gospels. Pastor Daniel noted that Jesus was in the middle of teaching — the room was full, the religious leaders were present, and the moment was significant. And then debris started falling from the ceiling. Jesus did not pause and ask them to wait until He was finished. He looked up, saw their faith, and responded. His own agenda gave way to theirs. That is the model Pastor Daniel is asking us to sit with: not just the faith of the man on the mat, but the willingness of his friends to be disruptive — and the willingness of Jesus to be disrupted. This is countercultural. We are trained to protect our time, our focus, and our plans. Disruption feels like failure, like losing ground. But Pastor Daniel's reading of this passage reframes it: what if disruption is not the enemy of the good you were going to do, but the actual good God had in mind? The four friends did not have a polished plan. They had a friend who needed help and a refusal to accept that nothing could be done. That refusal — that stubborn, inconvenient love — is what Jesus called faith. It is available to every one of us, starting with the people already in our lives.

For reflection

Is there someone in your life right now who needs you to be persistently present for them, even when it disrupts your routine?

Pray

Pray for one person in your life who needs someone to show up for them — and for the courage to be that person.

Day 5

After the paralyzed man was lowered through the roof, Luke records that Jesus said something unexpected: 'Young man, your sins are forgiven.' The scribes and Pharisees immediately began questioning this in their hearts. Who can forgive sins but God alone? It was, from their perspective, an outrageous claim. Pastor Daniel's sermon connects this to a broader theme: saying yes to a life of neighboring love will cost your reputation. The religious leaders in that room thought Jesus was being reckless, even blasphemous. They had a tidy framework for how ministry should work, and Jesus kept stepping outside it. Loving people the way He loved them did not fit the categories they had built. The same thing happens today. When you stop for someone others have decided is not worth stopping for, when you spend money on a neighbor's need instead of something safer, when you show up in ways that do not make sense by the world's accounting — people will notice, and not always charitably. Pastor Daniel was honest about this: loving others will cost your reputation. It will look excessive to some and naive to others. But the standard Jesus set was not 'be sensible about it.' It was 'follow Me.' That is not recklessness — it is a different kind of wisdom, grounded in trust that God keeps better accounts than we do.

For reflection

Where have you held back from loving someone generously because of what others might think — and what would it take to release that concern?

Pray

Pray for freedom from the fear of others' opinions, and for confidence that God sees and honors what the world might call foolish.

Day 6

Pastor Daniel landed on Galatians 6:9 as the promise that holds the whole sermon together: 'So let's not get tired of doing good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.' It is a verse worth reading slowly, because it carries a quiet acknowledgment inside it — that doing good is tiring. Paul would not have written 'don't get tired' if tiredness were not a real and expected experience. This is an honest word. Loving your neighbors costs something — your schedule, your money, your comfort, sometimes your reputation. There will be moments when you wonder whether it is worth it, when the harvest feels very far away and the cost feels very close. Pastor Daniel did not minimize that. He simply pointed to the promise: the harvest is real, and the timing belongs to God. This is where the daily discipline of surrender matters most. Not the grand gestures, but the quiet yes said on an ordinary Thursday when you are tired and someone needs something and you choose to show up anyway. That choice, repeated over time, is what a neighboring life actually looks like. It is not glamorous. But Galatians 6:9 says it is not wasted, either. The right time may not be your time — but it will come. Hold on.

For reflection

Where in your life right now do you most need the reminder that your faithfulness in doing good is not wasted, even when you cannot see the harvest yet?

Pray

Pray for endurance in an area where loving others has felt costly or unrewarding lately — and for trust in God's timing.

Day 7

Coming back to the full parable after a week of reflection, something shifts. The priest, the Levite, and the Samaritan all walked the same road and saw the same man. The difference was not knowledge, position, or even resources — it was willingness. One person stopped. And because he stopped, an entire life changed. Pastor Daniel's invitation across this week has been consistent and clear: the greatest obstacle to loving your neighbors is not opportunity — it is the moment of decision when the opportunity arrives and it costs something to say yes. Inconvenience, disruption, expense, reputation — these are real. The sermon does not pretend otherwise. But it also points to something the parable and both healings in Luke 5 confirm: when Jesus is the model and the Holy Spirit is the guide, what looks irrational from the outside is actually participation in the most meaningful story being told. As you finish this week, the invitation is not to do more. It is to surrender your schedule, your plans, and your definition of a productive day to a God who interrupts well. Pray each morning to be used. Hold the day loosely. When the nudge comes — and it will — say yes. You do not need training. You need willingness. And the harvest, as Galatians 6:9 promises, will come at exactly the right time.

For reflection

Looking back over this week, what is one specific, concrete step you can take in the next seven days to love a neighbor in a way that is inconvenient, disruptive, or costly?

Pray

Pray a simple morning prayer of surrender — offering your plans and your day to God and asking Him to use you however He sees fit, even if it interrupts everything.

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This message asked a pretty direct question: what actually stops us from loving the people right in front of us? Let's spend a few minutes sitting with that together.

Discussion questions

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In the parable of the good Samaritan, the Samaritan's actions likely looked irrational to anyone watching — he crossed social lines, spent his own money, and derailed his travel plans for a stranger. What do you think made it so hard for the other travelers to stop, and what does that tell us about what neighboring well actually costs?
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Pastor Daniel pointed out that the Samaritan's compassion came first — it was what moved him toward the man before he did anything else. What's the connection between genuine compassion and the direction of our attention and investment?
3
In Luke 5, a man with leprosy interrupted Jesus while He was already on His way somewhere, and Jesus stopped and healed him. What does Jesus' response there suggest about how He viewed interruptions to His plans?
4
When the paralyzed man was lowered through the roof, Jesus was in the middle of teaching a crowd. He paused His own agenda entirely. How might our communities look different if we took seriously the idea that someone else's urgent need can be God's agenda breaking into our own?
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Pastor Daniel challenged us to build real margin into our schedules — not as a self-care strategy but as an act of surrender — and to pray each morning that God would use us through divine interruptions. What would it practically look like for a group like ours to make that kind of space?
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Galatians 6:9 promises a harvest of blessing for those who keep doing good without giving up. Pastor Daniel tied that promise directly to the cost of a life of love — reputation, schedule, and resources. What does it look like for people to hold onto that promise when the cost feels high?

Pray together

Courage to say yes to the people God places on our path — even when it's inconvenient, disruptive, or expensive

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