One Life for the Sake of Many

Love your neighbour as yourself

Tue 30 Apr 2024

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NIcholas Winton's story in the beautiful film, One Life, shows how one life can affect scores of others, since he was the organiser of the Kindertrains that saved hundreds of children prior to World War II. This story shows how a person's decisions have effects that ripple throughout time.

One Life is a reflection of the words of Jesus: "Love your neighbour as yourself."

This sounds easy enough and straightforward, but proves to be challenging to do. Why? Because the ability to practice loving our neighbours can only be based on the first part of Jesus' original quote.

You see, loving others can only truly be experienced by first loving God, because He first loved us.

To be clear, people can love without God, but it is only by God's power that we truly can understand what it means to love our neighbour.

Love God, love others. They go hand in hand.

"File:Statue of Nicholas Winton in Prague.jpg" by Jenda H. is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Russ Matthews

Russ Matthews works for City Bible Forum as the Product Manager for Reel Dialogue, God in 60 Seconds and Third Space. All of these works exist to start conversations and communities that discuss faith and God throughout the cities of Australia. Russ writes film reviews and articles for various publications. He has a passion for film and getting the conversations started on themes from these visual creations. Spaces that engage workers with the bigger life questions include movies, …