NO OTHER NAME (3)
Scripture: Acts 3:1-26, Acts 4:1-22
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Title: No Other Name (3)
Series: Unstoppable
Author: Patrick Edwards
Text: Acts 3:1-4:22
Introduction
One of my favorite sitcoms of the last ten years was The Good Place, written and produced by Michael Schur, who had before written for The Office and Parks and Recreation. Hilarious but also insightful, the show opens with four people who have died and find themselves in "the Good Place", heaven if you will. The first season, thus, follows these four people as each of them wonders if they really belong there, some realizing that they don't. And yet, in a great twist, which I have now spoiled for you, they all realize that they were never in "the Good Place" but were being psychologically tortured in "the Bad Place" all along.
Imaging, thinking everything is ok, only to find out it never was. To go back further in T.V. history, maybe you remember Alias, featuring Jennifer Garner, in 2001 where the protagonist is a spy who realizes that though she thought she was working for the C.I.A. and protecting the country, that she was actually working for an evil, terrorist organization. These shows beg the question: how do you know if you're on the good side or the bad side?
More broadly speaking, how you do know when you're a part of something unhealthy or dysfunctional? Sometimes we don't realize how messed up our work environment is because that's all we've ever known. We can't see that we're heading in the wrong direction because we've been convinced, and maybe even convinced ourselves too, that everything is good; trust your leaders, trust the process. But then one day the moment comes: there's the big revelation. This isn't it.
Perhaps you're speculating as to what exactly I'm alluding to this morning, but it's the exact argument Luke will be making over the next number of weeks, from Acts 3 through chapter 7. It's not an unfamiliar lesson, though, but one that Jesus precisely made in his ministry that eventually led to his murder. Wh ...
Series: Unstoppable
Author: Patrick Edwards
Text: Acts 3:1-4:22
Introduction
One of my favorite sitcoms of the last ten years was The Good Place, written and produced by Michael Schur, who had before written for The Office and Parks and Recreation. Hilarious but also insightful, the show opens with four people who have died and find themselves in "the Good Place", heaven if you will. The first season, thus, follows these four people as each of them wonders if they really belong there, some realizing that they don't. And yet, in a great twist, which I have now spoiled for you, they all realize that they were never in "the Good Place" but were being psychologically tortured in "the Bad Place" all along.
Imaging, thinking everything is ok, only to find out it never was. To go back further in T.V. history, maybe you remember Alias, featuring Jennifer Garner, in 2001 where the protagonist is a spy who realizes that though she thought she was working for the C.I.A. and protecting the country, that she was actually working for an evil, terrorist organization. These shows beg the question: how do you know if you're on the good side or the bad side?
More broadly speaking, how you do know when you're a part of something unhealthy or dysfunctional? Sometimes we don't realize how messed up our work environment is because that's all we've ever known. We can't see that we're heading in the wrong direction because we've been convinced, and maybe even convinced ourselves too, that everything is good; trust your leaders, trust the process. But then one day the moment comes: there's the big revelation. This isn't it.
Perhaps you're speculating as to what exactly I'm alluding to this morning, but it's the exact argument Luke will be making over the next number of weeks, from Acts 3 through chapter 7. It's not an unfamiliar lesson, though, but one that Jesus precisely made in his ministry that eventually led to his murder. Wh ...
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