Solid Ground
The Okayish Samaritan
We call him "good," but Jesus never does — he's just a Samaritan who stopped when it would've been easier to keep walking. In this study of Luke 10:25–37, we ask why a religious lawyer's question ("who is my neighbor?") is really a search for the edge of his obligation, and why Jesus answers it by making a despised outsider the hero of mercy. It's a challenge to trade self-justification for…