Sermon: The Golden Goal? (4)
Series: A Change Of Heart
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Luke 6:27-38
(Asking the audience) What Is Golden Rule? "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you." That's a simple and yet powerful statement that has caught the imagination of the world, and it's almost as if nobody (before Jesus) had ever thought about that!
ILLUS: Several years ago, there was a school district in Richmond, Virginia that decided to sell 1000 of their used notebook computers for $50 apiece. On the morning of the sale, people began lining up at 1:30 a.m. By 7 o'clock that morning, the crowd was estimated to be 5,500 people (for 1000 computers). When the gates opened, the crowd turned into a violent stampede. There were people getting thrown to the pavement, being beaten with folding chairs, and some nearly driven over. Seventeen people were injured ...and four of those were taken to the hospital. Witnesses reported that people threw themselves forward screaming and pushing each other. One man said he was one of those people. He pushed and he shoved and he used a folding chair to beat back anyone who tried to cut in front of him. He said, "I took my chair and threw it over my shoulder and I went, 'Bam.' They were getting in front of me - and I was there a lot earlier than them - and so I thought it was just to do what I did." (AP $50 Laptop Sale Turns Into a Free-For-All, 8/17/05)
It's almost as if these people had perverted the golden rule to say: "Do unto others FIRST before they do unto you!" Down through history, people have lived as if this was the ways things shouldbe. Someone commented that "It's ruthlessly competitive out there, so you've got to fight to get yours."
Another noted that: "Either you learn how to play the game and win, or you will get dominated and lose and be left in the dust."
Somebody even made it about Evolution and the survival of the fittest: "Some species compete with each other for mates and resources. The stron ...
Series: A Change Of Heart
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Luke 6:27-38
(Asking the audience) What Is Golden Rule? "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you." That's a simple and yet powerful statement that has caught the imagination of the world, and it's almost as if nobody (before Jesus) had ever thought about that!
ILLUS: Several years ago, there was a school district in Richmond, Virginia that decided to sell 1000 of their used notebook computers for $50 apiece. On the morning of the sale, people began lining up at 1:30 a.m. By 7 o'clock that morning, the crowd was estimated to be 5,500 people (for 1000 computers). When the gates opened, the crowd turned into a violent stampede. There were people getting thrown to the pavement, being beaten with folding chairs, and some nearly driven over. Seventeen people were injured ...and four of those were taken to the hospital. Witnesses reported that people threw themselves forward screaming and pushing each other. One man said he was one of those people. He pushed and he shoved and he used a folding chair to beat back anyone who tried to cut in front of him. He said, "I took my chair and threw it over my shoulder and I went, 'Bam.' They were getting in front of me - and I was there a lot earlier than them - and so I thought it was just to do what I did." (AP $50 Laptop Sale Turns Into a Free-For-All, 8/17/05)
It's almost as if these people had perverted the golden rule to say: "Do unto others FIRST before they do unto you!" Down through history, people have lived as if this was the ways things shouldbe. Someone commented that "It's ruthlessly competitive out there, so you've got to fight to get yours."
Another noted that: "Either you learn how to play the game and win, or you will get dominated and lose and be left in the dust."
Somebody even made it about Evolution and the survival of the fittest: "Some species compete with each other for mates and resources. The stron ...
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