Reaching your neighbors | Rapp Report Daily 0170 | Striving for Eternity

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The Loss of Neighborliness in Western Culture

One thing you end up seeing in Western culture is the fact that everyone is so individualistic that people don't even know their neighbors. Many places around, at least in America, you can have people who go to work, they get in their car, sometimes even in their garage, pull out of their garage, drive to work, don't even talk to their neighbors, pull back in their garage.

Reaching Out to Neighbors and Sharing the Gospel

We have lost, in the culture, an identity with our community, with reaching out to our neighbors, getting to know them, spending time with them, and sharing the gospel with them. It is all too easy for us, as American Christians, to sit in our churches when we want a fellowship with our Christian friends, go to work, go home and be with family, and avoid those unbelievers around us.

Oh, we may do an outreach where we go out and try to share the gospel in different ways with people we don't know at all, but it's a little bit different when you're rubbing shoulders with the people that live right next to you.

It is all too easy for us to avoid our neighbors, because this is a way that the culture has really formed itself where everyone is behind their garages, fences, and locked into their homes. We need to reach out to our neighbors and those around us who know us and live among us.

We have to be part of the culture, but not in a way where it influences us, but seeking to share the gospel with those so that they may come to a knowledge of Jesus Christ and that they may be believers.

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