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Like a good neighbor, Jesus is there
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1. Like a good neighbor, Jesus is there

2. Six degrees of separation
Six degrees of separation idea: In a world graph where nodes are people and edges are connections, you are separated from anyone else in the world by no more than six connections. We are all connected!
Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. (Wikipedia)

3. Facebook
Facebook Spider web
Facebook is a social network where one can publish information about oneself or a group and friends and others in the group can see that information (text, pictures, videos, etc.).
Do you have a Facebook profile on-line? Do you want one? Facebook is ready with a shadow profile.

Facebook is on the web and free to use from your Internet connection. Free here means you do not pay any money. Why is it free?

4. Facebook product and graph
To Facebook, you are not the customer. To Facebook, you are the product.

Your information is used for marketing purposes to sell you products, ideas, etc. Facebook (and Google, etc.) can monitor you, what you do, what you say, control what you see, and report this to others.

In the Facebook Graph, the nodes are people (or groups) and the edges are who is friends, spouses, etc., with others in the graph. The Facebook Graph API (Application Programming Interface) allows programming use (within terms of service) of the Facebook Graph.

5. Facebook research
Facebook graph research: Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people.

6. Like a good neighbor, Jesus is there
One should love God and love thy neighbor (as thyself). Both are needed.

Who is thy neighbor? Jesus answers this question in the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10.

Consider Jesus and the Bible. How might the mandate to "love thy neighbor as thyself" differ from the mandate "won't you be a neighbor"? The subtle difference is interesting and is why "as thyself" is both needed and important and what might be "new" at the Last Supper.

The ancient Greek word "πλησίον""near, neighbor".

7. Like a good neighbor
Logo: Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.The title "Like a good neighbor, Jesus is there." is a play on the slogan "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.", a slogan of the State Farm Insurance company at https://www.statefarm.com/. (as of 2022-04-25)

8. Good hands
Logo: Allstate You're in good handsAnother insurance company slogan is "You're in good hands" from Allstate insurance company at https://www.allstate.com/. (as of 2022-04-25)

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9. Won't you be my neighbor
The song "Won't you be my neighbor" was the theme song of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood TV show which ran from 1968 to 2001.

It is also the name of a 2018 documentary on Fred Rogers, the creator and host of the TV show.

10. Who is my neighbor?
Question markWhat are the two most important rules in the Bible? In Luke 10, the lawyer and Jesus both agree.
Verse routeLuke 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. [kjv]

Both are needed. Who is thy neighbor? Jesus answers this question in the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10. The short answer is that anyone "nearby" is your neighbor.

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11. Alternatives
Let us look at similarity and difference of two ways of expressing an idea. The subtle difference is both interesting and important.

12. God and neighbor
It is important to note that both are needed.

13. Love your neighbor 1
Neighbor 0When in a neighborhood, one must start to think, "How can I love my neighbor as myself?".

14. Love your neighbor 2
Neighbor 1Within the context of "Love my God" and the rules associated with that, ask yourself the following question. This is always in the context of "Love my God". Anything not appropriate, as in a "sin", would not be considered.

That is why the "yourself" part of "Love your neighbor as yourself" is important.

15. Love your neighbor 3
Neighbor 2Within the context of "Love my God", one then interacts with and treats others in that way.

16. Be a neighbor 1
Neighbor 3Now consider the phrase "Won't you be a neighbor?".

This requires one to try the imagine everything that a neighbor might want me to do. This is hard in itself.

Some of those things may be in line with "Love my God" but some may not be in line with "Love my God".

17. Be a neighbor 2
Neighbor 4Now imagine everything that a neighbor might want me to do.

Some of those things may be in line with "Love my God" but some may not be in line with "Love my God".

18. Be a neighbor 3
Neighbor 5Now try to do those things. The task is daunting. There is a more important issue here.

Some of those things may be in line with "Love my God" but some may not be in line with "Love my God".

The guidance "be a neighbor" requires one to know a lot and may lead one to condone or commit sin.

19. Pleasing people
You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President)

Poet John Lydgate said this, but Lincoln adapted it and made it popular.

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20. Jesus and Peter
At the foot washing by Jesus, Peter asks for more than what is offered by Jesus.

There may be requests from "neighbors" that do not fit what needs to be done.

21. Sin
One is not to participate in sin, one is not to condone sin. In Revelation, Jesus says that he "hates sin".
Verse routeRevelation 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. [kjv]

The important issue here is to appropriately define sin and what to do about it.

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22. Psalms 1: Here come the pigs
Verse routePsalms 1:1 Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of evil men. [bs3]
Verse routeμακιαριος ανηρ ος ουκ επορευθη εν βουλη ασεβων και εν οδω αμαρτωλων ουκ εστη και επι καθεδραν λοιμων ουκ εκαθισεν [lxx]



Slippery slopePsalms 1 presents an interesting bottom-up forward-chaining progression of the toleration and acceptance of sin. It is a slippery slope. From the "not" and "nor", there are three ways to avoid.

Walk stand sit
Barnabas makes these connections but Jesus uses each of "fish", "pigs", "birds" and "sheep" (and others) in corresponding roles.

The word for "walked" is the same word that is translated as "go" in the mandate of the Great Commission.

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23. Distinction
One must be very careful that in "being a neighbor" one does not violate the primary rules that one both "Love my God" and "Love my neighbor as myself".

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