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BORN RIGHT^© - Oct 24, 2025
with Josh Allen Flowers : josh@portervillepost.com

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR ~ The Revival Starts at the Fence Line ~
They say if you want to change the world, go home and love your family. I’d like to add something to that: If you want to rebuild a nation start with your fence line.

Not with a march !!!
Not with a meme !!!
Not with a midterm vote !!!

Start by knocking on the door next to yours and saying: "Hey — just wanted to say I’m glad we share this block." Because no matter how bad things get — and they are bad — the fastest way to starve tyranny is to rebuild trust at the local level. And the fastest way to rebuild trust is to bring back the one commandment this entire civilization was built on: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

Where We Went Wrong Look around: We’re addicted to abstraction.

Look around: We’re addicted to abstraction.
We love "community" — just not people.
We love "tolerance" — as long as we never have to disagree.
We love "justice" — until it’s our kid in the wrong.
It’s easy to post about unity. It’s harder to wave at the guy who put the wrong sign in his yard last November.
We don’t live next to people anymore.
We live next to ideological projections.

He’s a liberal. She’s a conservative. They’re homeschoolers.
That’s the Tesla guy.
That’s the weird flag family.
That guy didn’t shovel his sidewalk again.
Our neighborhoods aren’t communities. They’re silent standoffs broken by Amazon deliveries. And it’s making us sick. Literally.

The Collapse of Neighborliness = National Rot You want to know why we’re losing the country?

It’s not just the Marxism, the media, or the moral confusion — though all of that matters. It’s because we stopped showing up for each other. We used to borrow sugar.
Now we order groceries and tip the driver with emojis. We used to fix fences together.
Now we call the HOA to file complaints. We used to break bread.
Now we break threads. And when local trust dies, everything gets outsourced:
● Justice becomes lawsuits.
● Safety becomes surveillance.
● Connection becomes content.
● Disputes become government overreach.
We became a nation of strangers with strong opinions and no shared rituals. And the worst part? We think this is normal.

But There’s a Better Way But There’s a Better Way - And It’s Older Than All of This

Jesus didn’t tell us to love our “followers.”
He didn’t say love your political tribe.
He didn’t say love those who think like you.
He said: love your neighbor.
The actual one. With the barking dog.
The weird bumper stickers.
The windchimes that keep you up at night.
The guy who backs into the driveway every time just to be that guy.
That’s the one. That’s the person revival starts with.
Not a program. Not a politician. Just two people, on opposite sides of a fence — learning to be human again.

October Is the Perfect Month to Rebuild Local Bonds There’s something in the air this time of year — something soft, forgiving, human.

The weather cools. The pace slows. The porch lights flicker on a little earlier. Kids play in piles of leaves while parents wave from driveways.
If there were ever a month to reboot local love — it’s this one.

And here’s the best part:
♥ You don’t need permission.
♥ You don’t need a plan.
♥ You don’t need funding.

You don’t need government approval or corporate sponsorship. You just need a little courage and a warm meal.

Practical Ways to Love Your Neighbor (This Week)

1 Throw a front yard fire pit night. Set up chairs. Light the fire. Invite the block. Watch what happens when screens are replaced by s’mores.
2 Do a “harvest drop.” Bake an extra loaf of bread or pie. Drop it off on a neighbor’s porch with a handwritten note. That’s it. No explanation needed.
3 Start a “first Saturday” breakfast. Every first Saturday of the month, invite a different neighbor for pancakes. Rotate. Build routine.
4 Fix something you didn’t break. Mow their overgrown strip of lawn. Rake their leaves. Do it quietly. When they ask, just say, “We’re in this together.”
5Ask one real question. When you run into someone outside, skip the small talk. Ask: “What’s been on your mind lately?” Or “How’s your heart?”
6 Pray for them — by name. You don’t have to announce it. Just do it. Regularly. You’ll start to see them differently.

But What If They’re Awful? Here’s the thing: loving your neighbor doesn’t mean enabling evil.

It doesn’t mean you compromise truth. It just means you lead with honor.
You don’t need to agree with someone to love them. In fact, the most powerful act in a divided world is to bless the people who vote against you. Not because they’re right — but because you serve a higher kingdom.

Truth without love becomes cruelty.
Love without truth becomes cowardice.
We need both. And it starts on our street.

Jesus Wasn’t Killed for Being “Nice” Let’s not forget: Jesus told stories about neighbors, sinners, and Samaritans.

Let’s not forget: Jesus told stories about neighbors, sinners, and Samaritans — and it made people furious. He didn’t say the religious elite had the answers. He said the one who crossed the road, got his hands dirty, and paid the innkeeper bill — that guy was the hero. That’s who we’re called to be. The culture says “cut them off.” The kingdom says “draw them in.”

You Can’t Rebuild America Without Rebuilding the Block The revolution we need isn’t national — it’s next door.

Revival doesn’t come from the top down.
It comes from the inside out — and the front porch forward.
▸ What if we stopped yelling at screens and started baking for neighbors?
▸ What if the real protest was hospitality?
▸ What if the resistance was casseroles and late-night conversations?
▸ What if the revolution looked more like forgiveness than fire?
▸ What if we made love thy neighbor the foundation for the next American century?
▸ We’d see the broken healed.
▸ We’d see the angry softened.
▸ We’d see the lonely found.
▸ We’d see the gospel — not in slogans — but in sidewalks.

Start the Revival Where You Stand Don’t wait for some perfect day. Don’t wait for the world to fix itself.

Just start… with one light on.
One chair out.✔
One meal shared.✔
One prayer spoken.✔
One name remembered.✔

Let October be the beginning of a local movement of moral courage.
Let it be the month where we look across the fence again — and see not a political threat… but a person made in the image of God. Let it be the month we remembered who we are. Not red or blue. Not left or right. But neighbors.

What you are not changing, you are choosing.