Christians should live how Jesus teaches us.  If he treats everyone with love and respect then so should we.  As Christians and followers of Christ race, gender, colour, religion etc should not matter to us.  The bible helps Christian’s faith and is guidance to how we should live.  Christians have many responsibilities and one of them is to help people in need.  

In Lk10: 25–37 it tells the story of the Good Samaritan. A Jew is robbed and beaten.  When the Levite and Priest walk past you expect them to stop and help but they don’t.  Instead they cross the road and ignore the man in need.  The Samaritan then walks past and notices the Jew, so he stops and gives love to the needy man.  The Samaritan shows responsibility for the Jew even though they would normally be enemies.  The Samaritan sets a good example for people today.  If someone is in need, even if we don’t like them or don’t know them then we should stop and show them love in the way we would expect love if we were in need.

In today’s society we think of prostitutes as unacceptable.  They are often attacked or beaten due to lack of respect.  But in Lk7: 36–50 it shows Jesus dismissing the fact of discrimination because of gender.  People wouldn’t of thought Jesus would allow a prostitute to touch him but he doesn’t care.  The prostitute is just a human being with the responsibility of making money to survive just like everyone else.  Jesus is helping the prostitute by showing others if he is not afraid of being near her then no one else should.  

All human beings are responsible for their own actions.  If they wish to sin then it is their decision even if it is wrong.  Jesus tries to guide us towards the light, so we use our lives to help others.  Jesus was just as responsible as we are.  If he can help people then so can we.  Lk 7:10 tells us of Jesus curing a centurion’s servant.  Again Jesus wouldn’t have been expected to touch some one of the ‘lower class’ as we may call them these days.  But Jesus had responsibilities, so he didn’t care if the servant was his friend or enemy.  Jesus should be our role model.  What he did we should do.  

In God’s eye we are all equal and live as one.  But in reality, on earth, that is incorrect.  There is a divide between the rich North and poor South.  Some people stick their noses up at the people who live in poverty.  But it is everyone’s responsibility to work together and try to remove the divide so everyone is equal to God and each other.  Jesus had a responsibility to look after the poor and did not show favouritism to anyone.

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One of the greatest commandments is ‘ to love your neighbour’.  It is our responsibility to stick to the commandments and do what they say for this is the words of the lord.

In society today people look at each other and class the person because of who they are.  Yes everyone may be unique in their own way but there is also similarities.  We are sons and daughters of God and are made in the image of him.  Galatians 3:28 reinforces the fact that there is no male or female, no Jew or Greek also no slave or free ...

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