This past Sunday, October 11 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, we returned to our Deuteronomy sermon series examining the first few verses of Chapter 22 about our responsibility for our neighbors. The first question asked by a human that’s recorded in the Bible is Cain’s: Am I my brother’s keeper? (meaning am I responsible to take care of my brother?) From the beginning God has given us the responsibility for our neighbors, and it’s been our inclination from the beginning to not do this. In the Deuteronomy passage we see that neighbor or brother means a member of the community, which at that time numbered in the millions. So we may not know our neighbor whom we’re called to help. These verses call us to help our neighbor not only in the catastrophe but also in the mundane and everyday. God calls us to be involved in others’ lives, but there’s a cost.
