CC #6 Unedited Lil Insta Clip

Sometimes as church members, we fall into two categories when it comes to who we consider our neighbors. Some associate missionary work with faraway countries where they served, while others view those who are different from them as less than. This fear of the unfamiliar prevents us from loving and serving others, including those who live right next door to us. So, going back to that question of who is my neighbor, I think sometimes we as church members tend to fall into one of two buckets sometimes. For those of us who have served full-time missions, I know many people have served in a faraway third world country, and I've noticed that sometimes these people will associate missionary work with that country they went to. When they think of missionary work, they think of Asia, or Mexico, or South America, or Africa, and so when they're living in their day-to-day life with all these people that they grew up with, you know, that look and live and behave like them, it doesn't remind them of missionary work. And then there's the other bucket of, like in this parable of the Good Samaritan, that sometimes when people are too dissimilar to us, when they don't look like us, or behave like us, or speak like us, we sometimes think of them as less than, right? And that's a really scary way to live. And so I think that there's two buckets. Sometimes we're afraid of somebody or something that's too unfamiliar with us, and so we don't want to love and serve them. And then there's the other bucket of, oh, when I think of missionary work, I think of this third world country. I don't really think of serving the people that live immediately next door to me.