360 MUSIC VIDEO: How To Neighbor (feat. David Bowden & Dillon Chase)

How to Neighbor

Overview

We once lived as estranged, self-walled neighbors of God—drowning in the “mortgage” of our sin-stained flesh. Jesus moved into our broken cul-de-sac, paid the debt we could never clear, and showed us how to love. Because He first embraced us, we can now embrace others: orphans, the lonely, divided races, and the poor. Neighboring is not moral posturing; it is our grateful response to grace.

Main Points

Remember the Neighborhood We Came From

• We were “the worst of neighbors,” stocking our homes with transgressions and bricks of enmity.
• Our spiritual mortgage was unpayable; no good works could cancel the debt.
• Alienated from God, we furnished our lives with selfish deeds and hostility.

Jesus Moved In and Modeled True Neighboring

• God did not wait for us to fix ourselves; He entered our cul-de-sac in Christ.
• The cross shows the cost and pattern of real love: He who is God was forsaken by God for us.

“Now we actually can love others because God Himself did show us how to neighbor.”

Adopt the Orphaned

• We “first lived without a family,” cut off from our true Father and royal line.
• Because we were adopted, we now adopt—extending family to the parentless.

Love the Lonely

• Christ “became loneliness for us,” experiencing abandonment so we could belong.
• We move toward those isolated by loss, addiction, or circumstance.

Reconcile the Races

• By nature we were “children of Adam… children of wrath,” stained by sin, not skin tone.
• In Jesus, barriers fall; we labor for racial restoration because He reconciled us.

Empower the Poor

• Once “homeless without roof, wall, or door,” we only imagined earthly comfort.
• Having received undeserved riches in Christ, we invest in those who lack resources.

Respond, Don’t Perform

• Neighboring flows from gratitude, not a quest to “be on our best behavior.”
• Every act of mercy echoes the mercy that saved us.

• Story: The speaker recounts a personal journey—parental heroin use, shattered bottles, church visits without embrace, teenage homelessness, and deep loneliness. Christ’s acceptance shattered that isolation and now fuels compassion for others in similar pain.

Key Truths

• Our natural state was estrangement from God and one another.
• Jesus canceled the unpayable debt of sin and demonstrated perfect neighboring.
• Adoption, inclusion, reconciliation, and generosity are gospel responses, not self-help projects.
• Every marginalized group we serve mirrors a facet of what Christ already did for us.
• Genuine neighboring springs from grace received, not behavior enforced.

Response

• Acknowledge the sin-built walls still standing in your heart.
• Thank Jesus for moving into your “neighborhood” and paying your debt.
• Seek out an orphan, foster child, or isolated youth and offer consistent presence.
• Initiate honest conversations and shared spaces that foster racial healing.
• Budget time and money to empower someone facing material poverty.
• Let every act of service be a conscious echo of the grace you have received.

Closing

The message ends with a wide-angle invitation: because Jesus embraced us when we were orphaned, lonely, divided, and impoverished, we now join Him in embracing the world.

“May the orphans be embraced, may the lonely be loved, may the races be restored, and may we empower the poor—because all this and more was first done by our Savior, the God-man known as Jesus, who taught us how to neighbor.”