Was Jesus saying that anyone you come into contact with is your "neighbor" and you should..?

Yes. Anyone in genuine need is your neighbor. Genuine need is exemplified by a man robbed and beaten by thugs. Showing mercy is exemplified by providing first aid, carrying him on your own donkey to an inn, and supporting his recovery.

Abetting crime and dependency for your neighbor is not caring for your neighbor. Abetting illegal immigration or enabling addiction is not loving your neighbor.

In addition, your neighbor is not your brother or sister. Your brother or sister is a fellow child of God, born again in baptism. As Jesus said in Matt 25, whatever we do to the the least of our brothers or sisters, the children of God, we do for Jesus himself.

Cheers,

Bruce

Many people think the people who live in the property next to you are your neighbors. Many others think it means your fellow countryman. Jesus set the record straight. Your neighbor is the one that needs you.

Added: Here's a couple videos. The first one is a couple years old. The second one is 10 days old.

Here is a man bleeding in the streets of New York as people walk by and take cell phone pictures of him for over an hour. He had just stopped a rape and was wounded by the rapist. He ended up slowly dying on the street of those wounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGaJrgi_SpE

The second one is very hard to watch. Ten days ago a 2 year old Chinese girl got hit by a car. She stays in the street as people walk past her. She even gets her legs run over by another car that would not stop for her.

I share the version that does not show the actual impact. Still, it is disturbing. It shows what the people did to their two year old innocent neighbor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQxjiXqBIkQ

Yes, that is the objective. However, God knows we are human with many failings and just one of which is our inability to love our neighbor as ourselves. We will most likely find some people we just cannot abide. Only Jesus was able to love all even at the cross.

I just listened to a pod cast about the beggar at gate Beautiful every day and how Peter and John must have walked past him on many occasions. He was their neighbor but they failed to see him until this one day.

We have many neighbors but we need to look for them as well, not wait for them to contact us.

We can choose to ignore our neighbors as cults like the JW's do and just look after ourselves or we can do as Christ's disciples did and help our neighbors.

I choose to follow Christ and His teachings like in His parable of the good Samaritan, not follow the teachings of the WBTS and just tell him, sorry mate we got nothing for you, we will do nothing for you but just give you this flyer to show that Christ is a lowly Archangel and not the only begotten Son of God.

Who was the neighbour to the man? We are to love that neighbour according to this parable.

The neighbour is 'He who showed mercy' and we are to love our neighbour. Our neighbour is

the one who shows mercy on us. We are to love that one.

So here in this parable we have a Jew who is not helped by his own people. He is not helped

by a priest. He is not helped by a Levite. These were to help those in need. They did not

do this. So then who helped the Jew? Was it a fellow Jew? No, it was a Samaritan and we

know how the Jews felt (normally) about Samaritans. They were looked down upon.

So when this man gets better, and heals, what is he to do then? Keep on hating all

Samaritans, as the Jews do? Or is he to love this man who is his neighbour. For Jesus

explains that your neighbour is someone who shows mercy on you. My neighbour is

someone who shows mercy on me. I am to love that person.

I am to do likewise. I am also to love anyone who shows mercy on me in any way,

regardless of who they are, whether they are acceptable to me, in my social class.

If they help me...at all...they are now my neighbour.

You should be kind, respectful, and courteous to everyone you meet no matter where or in what way you meet them. Help them if you see they need help and you have the ability to help them, such as if I am driving past a person holding a sign "need food" and I have a bag of pretzels on the seat beside me I might hand it out the window to them. Just treat other people the way you'd hope they would treat you if you were in their situation.

Yes, it is so.

bless you.

Jesus said to do unto others as you would have them do unto you as well. :) In this should we ever be the one who had fallen we could expect someone to help us up and get back on our feet as well.

One can learn many things from all of Jesus' teaching, not just one but there are many things from each we can learn. This makes the word of God perfect and good, and we can never understand it all but we can keep seeking Jesus to learn and understand more and more though.

take care and keep seeking Jesus.

Many people we see every day we do not know but if they need help and you can do something we are to help them and not say ooh not today but yes I will help you. I have lived it and I know that doing good to others makes them see the real Jesus in us but when we tell them "Look I would like to help you some time but just not today." we turn them off and they think Hmm some Christian.

I do it every day to help someone who needs something. I do not turn my back on them.

(((Martin S))) great question~!

Your neighbor is everyone who isn't you. Everyone you come in contact with is your neighbor. Actually there is another stronger command ...

John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Observe! Have I told you recently that I love you and yours...In Christ Jesus..