WHAT IS MAN'S REAL DILEMMA? (3 OF 22)
Scripture: I JOHN 2:1-2
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What Is Man's Real Dilemma? (3 of 22)
Series: What's Real and What's Not (I John)
Dr. Chuck McAlister
I John 2:1-2
INTRO: NEW SERIES: What's Real and What's Not!
(A) People - searching for reality today ..... settling for empty substitutes.
(B) I John .......theme - What's Real and What's Not!
1- This is the letter from the man who has seen it all.
2- Last surviving disciple.....charter member of the church which began at Pentecost.
3- Actually transported forward in time to see events that are still in our future while exiled on the island of Patmos!
4- This man is well qualified to tell us: What's Real and What's Not!
* John deals with the question: What's Is Man's Real Dilemma?
(C) Everyone would have to agree that mankind is facing a serious situation ..... crime ..... moral collapse .... we're in a dilemma!
- Nearly three million crimes are committed on school property every year, writes William Kilpatrick in Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong. And the problem is not that students aren't getting any values education. "In fact," says Kilpatrick, "more attention and research has been devoted to moral education in recent years than any (other) time in our history."
- The problem is that most of these programs have been resounding failures. Why? Because they are based on the wrong moral philosophy - a philosophy that reduces morals to a matter of "likes" and "dislikes."
- Those are the very words used by Sidney Simon, a guru of values education, in an interview with Newsweek. In his approach, Simon explains, "children's responses are never judged right or wrong." Every decision is treated as a matter of personal taste, no different from deciding between Coke and Pepsi.
- But the decision-making approach, as it is often called, makes real moral education impossible. Kilpatrick tells the story of a teacher who used Simon's approach with low-achieving eighth-graders. The program told students to list the th ...
Series: What's Real and What's Not (I John)
Dr. Chuck McAlister
I John 2:1-2
INTRO: NEW SERIES: What's Real and What's Not!
(A) People - searching for reality today ..... settling for empty substitutes.
(B) I John .......theme - What's Real and What's Not!
1- This is the letter from the man who has seen it all.
2- Last surviving disciple.....charter member of the church which began at Pentecost.
3- Actually transported forward in time to see events that are still in our future while exiled on the island of Patmos!
4- This man is well qualified to tell us: What's Real and What's Not!
* John deals with the question: What's Is Man's Real Dilemma?
(C) Everyone would have to agree that mankind is facing a serious situation ..... crime ..... moral collapse .... we're in a dilemma!
- Nearly three million crimes are committed on school property every year, writes William Kilpatrick in Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong. And the problem is not that students aren't getting any values education. "In fact," says Kilpatrick, "more attention and research has been devoted to moral education in recent years than any (other) time in our history."
- The problem is that most of these programs have been resounding failures. Why? Because they are based on the wrong moral philosophy - a philosophy that reduces morals to a matter of "likes" and "dislikes."
- Those are the very words used by Sidney Simon, a guru of values education, in an interview with Newsweek. In his approach, Simon explains, "children's responses are never judged right or wrong." Every decision is treated as a matter of personal taste, no different from deciding between Coke and Pepsi.
- But the decision-making approach, as it is often called, makes real moral education impossible. Kilpatrick tells the story of a teacher who used Simon's approach with low-achieving eighth-graders. The program told students to list the th ...
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