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Becoming Somebody - I Peter 2.4-11 Intro: Will you help me begin the sermon of the morning? Will you say with me, "I am somebody!" Once more. You are somebody. That means you are not a no-body. To be a somebody means you take up space, you have certain dimensions to your "somebodiness". Those dimensions may be larger than you like, and sometimes you may wish the space Where distributed differently, but you are somebody. You are somebody that can be described by the IRS, your doctor, your dentist, your psychologist, a sociologist, marketing analysts, educators, and politicians. You are a somebody with opinions. Your somebodiness changed Channel 7 viewing limiting Dick Caveat appearances and returning Jack Paar; it confirmed Johnny Carson's position and long age spelled the demise of Merv Griffin. You are a somebody with tastes. Your somebodiness likes, and dislikes. Because your somebodiness is unique. You are not just anybody. Your perceptions are unique, your fingerprints, your blood type. There is within each of us to become somebody. We want sameness with other bodies, but want to be ourselves. We have images of ourselves toward which we wor for personal fulfillment. When we lose our drive to become somebody our personalities take on wierd forms. I. What is your authentic "somebodiness?" What defines you? A. Whatever defines your determines how you look at yourself. 1. "A self-balancing, 28 jointed, adapter-base bipod; an electro chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of specia energy extracts, and 62,000 miles of capillaries. 60 pounds of air cycles through each of us, in a lifetime some hundred tons of solids, liquids and gases will cycle through us." Is that your somebodiness? Why then can a man falling love with a few inflated dollars' worth of chemicals arranged in a structure to which he murmurs, Darling? 2. What do we say about our somebodiness? A somebody for whom dial ton s are more familiar than the crickets' sound technology's ubiquitous whirr more natural than the sound of wind; the whistle of the jet against the cold night's air more natural than the hoot of an owl. 3. Jesse Jackson: I may be poor, but I am somebody. I may be in jail bat I am somebody....Tomorrow is Martin Luther King 's birthday Had he lived he would have been 44. His life was directed to helping people becoming somebody. Not only was his concern with blacks whom he urged to step to the front of the bus. But white could not become somebody until they extended to others what they enjoyed. Unless the freedom one possess is Shared with others that freedom is precarious and in a sense no freedom for anybody at all. 3. What defines you? Is that the legacy we wish to leave to our children? Is that for which we wish to be loved? B. Authentic humanness. 1. Where shall we look for it? Karl Marx? Sigmund Freud?
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Title of Sermon | Becoming Somebody |
Author | Landwehr, Arthur |
Subject | Value of the Individual, Availability of God |
Date of sermon | n/a |
Type | Text |
Format | |
Number of Pages | 3 |
Language | English |
Biblical Book | 1 Peter |
Verses | 2:4-11 |
Rights | For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please contact The Styberg Library by phone (847)866-3909 or email styberg.library@garrett.edu |
Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
Identifier | 941 Becoming Somebody.pdf |
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Title of Sermon | Page 1 |
Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
Transcript | Becoming Somebody - I Peter 2.4-11 Intro: Will you help me begin the sermon of the morning? Will you say with me, "I am somebody!" Once more. You are somebody. That means you are not a no-body. To be a somebody means you take up space, you have certain dimensions to your "somebodiness". Those dimensions may be larger than you like, and sometimes you may wish the space Where distributed differently, but you are somebody. You are somebody that can be described by the IRS, your doctor, your dentist, your psychologist, a sociologist, marketing analysts, educators, and politicians. You are a somebody with opinions. Your somebodiness changed Channel 7 viewing limiting Dick Caveat appearances and returning Jack Paar; it confirmed Johnny Carson's position and long age spelled the demise of Merv Griffin. You are a somebody with tastes. Your somebodiness likes, and dislikes. Because your somebodiness is unique. You are not just anybody. Your perceptions are unique, your fingerprints, your blood type. There is within each of us to become somebody. We want sameness with other bodies, but want to be ourselves. We have images of ourselves toward which we wor for personal fulfillment. When we lose our drive to become somebody our personalities take on wierd forms. I. What is your authentic "somebodiness?" What defines you? A. Whatever defines your determines how you look at yourself. 1. "A self-balancing, 28 jointed, adapter-base bipod; an electro chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of specia energy extracts, and 62,000 miles of capillaries. 60 pounds of air cycles through each of us, in a lifetime some hundred tons of solids, liquids and gases will cycle through us." Is that your somebodiness? Why then can a man falling love with a few inflated dollars' worth of chemicals arranged in a structure to which he murmurs, Darling? 2. What do we say about our somebodiness? A somebody for whom dial ton s are more familiar than the crickets' sound technology's ubiquitous whirr more natural than the sound of wind; the whistle of the jet against the cold night's air more natural than the hoot of an owl. 3. Jesse Jackson: I may be poor, but I am somebody. I may be in jail bat I am somebody....Tomorrow is Martin Luther King 's birthday Had he lived he would have been 44. His life was directed to helping people becoming somebody. Not only was his concern with blacks whom he urged to step to the front of the bus. But white could not become somebody until they extended to others what they enjoyed. Unless the freedom one possess is Shared with others that freedom is precarious and in a sense no freedom for anybody at all. 3. What defines you? Is that the legacy we wish to leave to our children? Is that for which we wish to be loved? B. Authentic humanness. 1. Where shall we look for it? Karl Marx? Sigmund Freud? |