Gospel according to Matthew, Chapter 25, 31-40
Pastor Yoshioka Kyosei, “Becoming a Neighbor ~ Adjacent to People”
The theme of this morning’s service is “neighborhood.” I think this is a idiom that we don’t usually use, but how do we usually view it when we think of the word “neighborhood” and when we think about “neighborhood” as this word suggests?
The famous Mother Teresa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, repeatedly said, “Christ is among the poorest” and “God is in the shape of the suffering,” and actively entered the poor people of India and devoted her life to support them. Mother Teresa said that when she first saw a dying man on the road in Calcutta, India, she sincerely wished to be with them. Do we have eyes that look at our neighbors like that?