Sunday, May 11, 2026
Neighbors | Week 4 // Brian Ebel
Series: Neighbors
Scripture: Luke 10:25-37
Assumptions Create the Wreck
The Jewish people had four forms of questions students asked their rabbis. The questions were all intended to discern the way a of a moral or successful life. When the expert in the law challenged Jesus, he’s asking him whether or not he knows the way to a moral or successful life, and wants to justify that he (the expert in the law) is on the path to that kind of life. When Jesus flips the script and shares that the way of the moral and successful life comes not from self-justification but God’s justification, it challenges all the assumptions. In a defining moment, the one who is an expert in the law is revealed to really be the one stuck in the ditch. What’s the remedy? Letting Christ pull him out. The same is true for us. How will we allow Jesus to pull us out of the ditch this week?
