The Blind Side: Go and Do Likewise (Luke 10:25-37)

In The Blind Side, Leigh Anne Tuohy sees a large Black teenager walking alone in the rain. She could drive past—most would. Instead, she stops. "Do you have a place to stay tonight?" Michael Oher becomes family. "Go and do likewise," Jesus says after the Good Samaritan parable. Leigh Anne does—not with a one-time donation but with her home, her name, her family's life rearranged. The Samaritan didn't just bandage wounds; he paid for ongoing care. True neighboring is costly, inconvenient, life-altering. It asks: Who is lying in your path that you could help?