MR. SPOCK, THE HULK AND JESUS (1 OF 7)
by Jeff Ginn
Scripture: Romans 12:15-16
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Mr. Spock, the Hulk and Jesus (1 of 7)
Series: Emotions
Jeff Ginn
Romans 12:15-16
People handle emotions in different ways. A couple of characters from cinema illustrate this perfectly. The first one is Mr. Spock. Now Mr. Spock was half human, half Vulcan, and you may remember him from the Star Trek days. Leonard Nimoy was the actor who portrayed Mr. Spock, and, being half human, he did have some emotions, but you didn't often see the emotions of Spock because the other half of him was Vulcan, and they were taught to depend upon logic and reason, and so he would squelch or stuff down his emotions in favor of logic. You rarely saw him express his emotions. Some of you are probably like Mr. Spock.
The other character that came to mind was The Incredible Hulk. That's the alter ego, I'll call it, of mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner. He is reasonable and he's scientific, but when things tick him off, man, he just - boom! He becomes The Hulk. And he rages uncontrollably and he's destructive, often to all that's around him.
I thought it would be fun this morning to just take a little survey. By show of hands, I wonder how many of you, and I'll ask for your hands in just a moment, how many of you are kind of like Mr. Spock? You are pretty even-keeled, mild-mannered, and you kind of keep it all stuffed down. And then how many of you are like The Hulk - man, you're just raging! Okay, don't show hands yet; I know you're anxious to show me that you're The Hulk! So we're going to see a show of hands, all right? And it's good that a lot of you are sitting by your spouses, so they'll keep you honest. How many of us here would say, ''I'm kind of like Mr. Spock? I keep my emotions pretty...'' leave your hands up; I want to see these. All right, that's a fair number of us, and I'm including myself in this group. It seems like the older I live, the more I become kind of like Mr. Spock in some ways, more even-keeled. So, all right, that's Mr. Spock - a lot of you g ...
Series: Emotions
Jeff Ginn
Romans 12:15-16
People handle emotions in different ways. A couple of characters from cinema illustrate this perfectly. The first one is Mr. Spock. Now Mr. Spock was half human, half Vulcan, and you may remember him from the Star Trek days. Leonard Nimoy was the actor who portrayed Mr. Spock, and, being half human, he did have some emotions, but you didn't often see the emotions of Spock because the other half of him was Vulcan, and they were taught to depend upon logic and reason, and so he would squelch or stuff down his emotions in favor of logic. You rarely saw him express his emotions. Some of you are probably like Mr. Spock.
The other character that came to mind was The Incredible Hulk. That's the alter ego, I'll call it, of mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner. He is reasonable and he's scientific, but when things tick him off, man, he just - boom! He becomes The Hulk. And he rages uncontrollably and he's destructive, often to all that's around him.
I thought it would be fun this morning to just take a little survey. By show of hands, I wonder how many of you, and I'll ask for your hands in just a moment, how many of you are kind of like Mr. Spock? You are pretty even-keeled, mild-mannered, and you kind of keep it all stuffed down. And then how many of you are like The Hulk - man, you're just raging! Okay, don't show hands yet; I know you're anxious to show me that you're The Hulk! So we're going to see a show of hands, all right? And it's good that a lot of you are sitting by your spouses, so they'll keep you honest. How many of us here would say, ''I'm kind of like Mr. Spock? I keep my emotions pretty...'' leave your hands up; I want to see these. All right, that's a fair number of us, and I'm including myself in this group. It seems like the older I live, the more I become kind of like Mr. Spock in some ways, more even-keeled. So, all right, that's Mr. Spock - a lot of you g ...
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