Lead the Way
“Care About Details”
Luke 10:25-37

Does God care about details?
	Yes

“God is in the details”
	30% of Genesis is about Joseph’s life
	40 years in the wilderness – clothes lasted, feet didn’t swell (Deuteronomy 8:4)
	300 prophecies; 300 fulfilled
	Every teardrop captured (Psalm 56:8)
	Hairs on our head are numbered (Luke 12:6-7)
	God cares for birds and flowers (Matthew 6:25-33)
	All sin can be forgiven (Acts 13:39, 1 John 1:9)

No matter what you experience, God cares about the details.

“Follower-Leader”

We want our lives to count for something!

Details = tasks
Details = relational

Caring	…
	Caring about Godliness and people in the smallest of details

It’s possible to know something and not live it out.

“ … love the Lord your God … and … your neighbor as yourself.”
(Deuteronomy 8:4, Leviticus 19:18, Mark 12:28-34)
	Loving God is the starting point.
	Everything grows out from that relationship.
	The chief end of humanity is to love God wholly.
	The product of our love for God will be a regard – care for the details – love for others
	made in His image who God has placed next to us as neighbors.

“And who is my neighbor?”

Common way to see the story
	Samaritan is a notorious “bad guy”
	“Bad guy” is the hero
	He would be the last person this Jewish man would have expected to be hailed as a 
	good neighbor, let alone a neighbor at all.
	Jewish man would have seen: victim – good person; Samaritan – evil person

“Just be a neighbor wherever you are needed, and realize that neighbors can come from surprising places.”

Is it possible?
	Jesus: an unlikely source
	Half-dead man: all of us
	Priest: legalism
	Levite: working your way

“You go, and do likewise.” – Luke 10:37

You
	You might be “half-dead”
	Unlikely person came to your help
	Because of compassion
	Bandaging our wounds
	Pouring out his love
	Taking you to a new place
	Paying or sacrificing whatever is needed

Go
	Notice the unlikely people
	Because of compassion
	Bandaging their wounds
	Pouring yourself out for them
	Help them to a new place
	Sacrificing whatever is needed

Love God and love your neighbor.

When we know the love of God, we can love God by loving others through caring about the details of their lives!

Care about details…
	Listen well
	Watch closely
	Sacrifice consistently
	Wait willingly

God wants us to care about Godliness and people in the smallest of details.