What would it be like to live as a Christian in Savannah like the passengers on a cruise ship? As Michael Black writes in the New York Times,

"Close quarters among guests and crew demand constant interaction, which results in one of the best qualities of a leisure cruise: civility. For a week, I never heard a single argument. I never even heard a raised voice. People treated each other well, and I can’t count the number of times I heard guests asking crew members questions about their lives: their time at sea, their families, their adventures ashore. Everybody seemed to care."

Back on land, we self-select who we will be around, without reference to location, based on who we think is in our tribe. But the way of Jesus is different. Its the way of the cruise ship. In the parable of the Good Samaritan found in Luke 10, Jesus calls his followers to acts of radical love and hospitality, not towards their own tribe, but to the actual neighbor who is there, in physical space, close to them. By living humbly in place, aware of our surroundings, we come into contact with all the diversity of humanity.