• Love Your Neighbor's Broccoli

  Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Matthew 5:43-48

  Tags:  Christian Love

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR’S BROCCOLI

A little girl stayed for dinner at the home of her friend. The vegetable was buttered broccoli, and the mother asked if she liked it. The child replied very politely, "Oh, yes, I love it." But when the bowl of broccoli was passed, she declined to take any. The hostess said, "I thought you said you loved broccoli." The girl replied sweetly, "Oh, yes, ma’am, I do, but not enough to eat it!"

"One cannot define one’s neighbor; one can only be a neighbor," Haddon Robinson said. "Your neighbor is anyone whose need you see, whose need you are able to meet." A neighbor is someone who says, "What is mine is God’s and what is God’s belongs to my neighbor because my neighbor belongs to Him."

(From a sermon by Stephen Sheane, "Love Your Neighbor" 2/10/2009)