Love your neighbor is a group project
Remember in high school or college when you had to do the dreaded group project? Group projects were always a challenge for me because I preferred to work on my own. Like many people my preference was due to my lack of trust in the capabilities of my fellow group members to hold up their end of the bargain. This was especially true if my team was assigned to me.
I also found that social interaction with a group of people that I didn’t know and/or didn’t choose was a significant barrier to my belief in the system of group work.
Let’s be honest, we all know that one group member that did the absolute bare minimum only to reap the benefits of the hard work of the other group members. If you don’t recall working with that group member it might have been you.
If 2020 has taught me anything it’s that we still have a problem working together.
The commandment to love your neighbor as yourself is God’s greatest group project to date.
The major difference with the is project is that the entire group (humanity) suffers when everyone isn’t fully invested in bringing their best effort to complete the project.
Instead of riding the coattails of the committed into a passing grade, those who remain uncommitted drag the entire group grade down causing the entire project to fail.
Love your neighbor only works when everyone is doing it and if we have any shot of passing God’s greatest group project we have to learn to place the needs of others above our own selfish desires. Here’s the thing, if everyone gives love then everyone receives it.
2020 has given us all the chance to improve our grade. The question is what type of group member are you going to be?
-Pastor L
