JESUS PAID IT ALL (3 OF 4)
by Joey Rodgers
Scripture: John 3:16-18, Luke 19:1-10
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Jesus Paid it All (3 of 4)
Series: CANceled
Joey Rodgers
John 3:16-18, Luke 19:1-10
As a wrestler in HS, I possessed quite the drive to win - and somehow, I won often enough, that when I'd go to tournaments, I'd get seeded in one of the top-3 slots. At one particular tournament, I got seeded ahead of a guy whose coach thought his guy should've been seeded above me. As a result, all week, this coach ran his mouth in the local paper denigrating me to promote his wrestler. Well..., as fate would have it, we met in the semi-finals. As the match started, the other coach continued heckling me. Now, if you know anything about me (even then), that didn't sit well. As a result, I made it my mission not just to beat the kid, but to humiliate/hurt him (not one of my finer moments). As the match began, I took the kid down, put him on his back, then let him up (5 pts). Then I did it again (score 10-2 at the end of round 1). Now, that he was humiliated, I next performed a move I knew would pin/hurt him - and in the process, I might've broken his ribs. After the match, as the kid laid there writhing in pain, I pointed to the coach and made some smart remark - again... not one of my finer Jesus moments.
What happened? Christian or not, we're all capable of getting swept up in the moment and behaving in a way that seeks to call people out to shut them up and shut them down - to prove them wrong and to make them eat their words. We seek to cancel them.
If you're just joining us, we're in a series of lessons talking about how to live for Christ in a PC/PC/CC.
LBH - more than ever, we're living in the age of perpetual offense - where people feel justified to be quick to judge, quick to criticize, quick to condemn, quick to rationalize, and quick to cancel anyone who offends/bother them, or just rub them the wrong way.
While lately it's been used to silence celebrities and politicians - now it's turned closer to home towards our colleagues, neighbors, friends, a ...
Series: CANceled
Joey Rodgers
John 3:16-18, Luke 19:1-10
As a wrestler in HS, I possessed quite the drive to win - and somehow, I won often enough, that when I'd go to tournaments, I'd get seeded in one of the top-3 slots. At one particular tournament, I got seeded ahead of a guy whose coach thought his guy should've been seeded above me. As a result, all week, this coach ran his mouth in the local paper denigrating me to promote his wrestler. Well..., as fate would have it, we met in the semi-finals. As the match started, the other coach continued heckling me. Now, if you know anything about me (even then), that didn't sit well. As a result, I made it my mission not just to beat the kid, but to humiliate/hurt him (not one of my finer moments). As the match began, I took the kid down, put him on his back, then let him up (5 pts). Then I did it again (score 10-2 at the end of round 1). Now, that he was humiliated, I next performed a move I knew would pin/hurt him - and in the process, I might've broken his ribs. After the match, as the kid laid there writhing in pain, I pointed to the coach and made some smart remark - again... not one of my finer Jesus moments.
What happened? Christian or not, we're all capable of getting swept up in the moment and behaving in a way that seeks to call people out to shut them up and shut them down - to prove them wrong and to make them eat their words. We seek to cancel them.
If you're just joining us, we're in a series of lessons talking about how to live for Christ in a PC/PC/CC.
LBH - more than ever, we're living in the age of perpetual offense - where people feel justified to be quick to judge, quick to criticize, quick to condemn, quick to rationalize, and quick to cancel anyone who offends/bother them, or just rub them the wrong way.
While lately it's been used to silence celebrities and politicians - now it's turned closer to home towards our colleagues, neighbors, friends, a ...
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