Monday, January 7, 2008
Turned Off
I saw this video on TED.com (a great site contributing to the marketplace of ideas), and I was struck at how meaningful it was for the context of following Christ. Daniel Goleman (author of Emotional Intelligence) mentions how we often will simply turn off the parts of our brains that looks beyond our self-centeredness and focuses on the needs of others.
Why have so many people been turned off of church? Because followers of Christ turned off the very thing Christ called us to: mercy, love, grace, sacrifice, empathy. We turned them off first. I wonder what our lives would be like if we lived with an awareness of the world around us. Easier said than done, sure, but isn't it worth a shot?
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this is a problem for our fellowship too. we will be striving to work through this and began to love again as we should. i believe that this will be a defining year for our churhc as we begin to live out 1 Cor. 13 and see that we will have to experiece love in all these forms if we are to reach our comminity and make the impact that Christ is worthy of.
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