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Joey discusses the importance of being present with our neighbors and the distinction between costly compassion and mere pity.

This Sunday, Joey continued the "Immanuel: Practicing Presence" series, focusing on God with us in our neighbors. He argued that practicing God's presence means becoming present to the actual neighbor in front of us, seeing them as a person rather than reducing them to a category we can safely ignore. This distinguishes costly compassion (which moves toward, suffers with, and bears the cost) from mere pity (which feels something and keeps walking), while clarifying that neighbor-love means re...

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