From Bob and Sue Bingham’s sermon on June 12-13, 2010: “Kids: the art of paying attention”.
“People will say you ought to follow your dreams…well, I’m a psychotherapist, and I know what you dream about. If you follow those dreams, you’ll go to jail.
Here’s the deal about the rest of your life – it’s not about you…it’s not about your dreams…
You will also hear it said that your character is more about who you are than what you do. Hogwash. Honestly, we cannot afford another generation of nice people, who have an acceptable facebook profile, but who do nothing.
Character is always a “doing thing”. It really makes no difference if you have good character, but remain silent and passive in a hurting world. Don’t you dare stop with being nice and doing your own thing.
I’ll take not so nice people who get angry over injustice, who cannot rest until a child has food, who kick down doors to find children who have been stolen, who are tireless in finding the cure for HIV/Aids and cancer, who will not standby as “friends” destroy reputations or communities. Give me a team of the latter, and we will change the neighborhood, the city, the country, the world. You want to be great? Then don’t you rest until justice rolls down – go now, go fast, and don’t stop until it’s finished…” (cue the music)…we’re done here.”
