I got blocked and removed from a neighborhood Facebook group — and before the hurt even landed, I'd already decided to build my own. It felt like initiative. It was avoidance. This episode is the conviction I didn't see coming: the difference between building community and building a bypass around the people who hurt you.

This week I'm getting specific and getting convicted in real time. I'm walking you through the neighborhood group situation that felt small on the surface and turned into a direct confrontation with the Good Samaritan — a story I've heard a hundred times, until it stopped letting me off the hook.

We're talking about the lawyer's real question in Luke 10, the actual cost of that Jericho road, and why the priest and Levite weren't just cold — they were protecting their own clean hands. And then we're talking about what it looked like for me to do the harder thing: go back, address it, reconcile, and shut down what I'd built to avoid it.

If you've ever built a new job, a new friend group, a new venture — quietly, as a way to avoid a conversation you didn't want to have — this one's for you.

Scripture referenced: Luke 10:25-37, Matthew 5:43-45

About the host: Whitney Kay is a content & sales strategist in brand partnerships with 15+ years as an entrepreneur and 6+ years leading discipleship and small group ministry. Called + Convicted is her show on discerning calling and defending conviction — for anyone caught between what culture's selling and what God's asking.

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