Christian Circuit Judge Andrew Self, the keynote speaker Thursday morning for the 51st annual Unity Breakfast, shared a familiar biblical lesson that answers the question, “Who is my neighbor?”
Jesus, responding to that question from a lawyer, shared the Parable of the Good Samaritan, who found a stranger beaten, robbed and near death — and despite not knowing anything about the man, tended to his wounds and took him to an inn to heal.
Self asked the audience to consider why we don’t know anything about the beaten man.
The reason, he said, is because Jesus never revealed anything about the man beyond the fact that he was beaten, left for dead and was ignored by others until the Good Samaritan came along…