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The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right outside Your Door is unavailable, but you can change that!

What if Jesus meant that we should love our actual neighbors? When Jesus was asked to sum up everything into one command, he said to love God with everything we have and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Most of us have turned this simple idea of loving our neighbors into a nice saying, putting it on bumper stickers and refrigerator magnets and then going on with our lives without actually...

Still, my wife and I have made it a priority in our lives to be committed to spending time with our neighbors. So what did we do? We went to the neighborhood party, left after a couple of hours, and then went over to the party with my college buddies. We stayed a while and ended up driving back to our neighbors’ party. That night we chose both. In essence, I “interrupted” my original plan to accommodate a new one, thus inviting the opportunity to forge neighborhood friendships, while still maintaining
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