Jesus doesn't want you to be like the Good Samaritan
The good Samaritan is perhaps the most misunderstood parable in the Bible . Dozens of ministries have been started with a desire to emulate the good Samaritan. Hundreds of theologians have tried to pull out hidden truths from this parable and have come up with completely different ideas. Some teach that Jesus desires to expose the Jericho road and that we would live in a day and age where good Samaritans are no longer needed. Others expose the need to tear down walls between enemies, and others–probably the typical evangelical Christian –see in the good Samaritan a call to love other people and to be involved in social justice. But is that what Jesus is saying in this parable? In short, the point of the good Samaritan is not to go out and try to love someone like the good Samaritan did. The point of this story is to point out the fact that you cannot save yourself. You simply can’t love perfectly like Jesus can. Jesus is doing personal evangelism here