We’ve heard the story from Luke repeatedly. Probably every year. We know it as the Good Samaritan. When we hear the title, our immediate reaction is, “Oh, I know this story…there were three men who walked beside a half-dead bludgeoned man on the side of the road AND the one who came to his aid, was the one whom you least expected: not the Jewish priest, not a Levite, but the outcast Samaritan. He was the good one, the one who did the right thing.” And our take-away from the parable is that we should be like the Samaritan, who showed love. That is a good deed, a good action. To do likewise would be good Christians. Well, I’m here to tell you that THIS is not the point of the parable.