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There was a test conducted by a university where 10 students were placed in a room. 3 lines of varying length were drawn on a card.
The students were told to raise their hands when the instructor pointed to the longest line. But 9 of the students had been instructed beforehand to raise their hands when the instructor pointed to the second longest line. 1 student was the stooge.
The usual reaction of the stooge was to put his hand up, look around, and realizing he was all alone, pull it back down. This happened 75% of the time, with students from grade school through high school. The researchers concluded that many would rather be liked rather than be right.
Suppose I were to walk up to you and began to insult you family; curse your father, call your mother by a totally unacceptable name and rake your brothers or sisters over the coals with one profanity after the other, what would you do?
Would you just stand there with a silly grin on your face or no expression at all? Would you act as if I had said nothing out of the ordinary because, after all, people use such language all the time? After all I have only defamed your family. It’s no big deal.
Suppose someone walks up to you and begins to insult your family of God? What if they use the well accepted GD’s of today, and by so doing throw verbal sludge at your heavenly Father. What if they then use the name of His son as a curse word and thereby literally rake the whole family of God over the coals?
What will you do? Will you just stand there with a silly grin on your face or no expression at all? Will you act as if they have said nothing out of the ordinary because, after all, people use such language all the time? After all they have only defamed the family of God. It’s no big deal.
It’s no big deal? Really? What we allow spoken in our presence - no matter how bad, becomes the accepted norm and very often what people therefore begin to think we actually stand for.
Suppose the next time you hear someone use heaven’s own as a curse word you were to say, “I really don’t care for that kind of language.” Will they appreciate your comment? Probably not.
Will everyone you say this to never take God’s name in vain again, or at least never again in your presence?
No, not everyone.
But some will respect you for speaking up and you will have sowed a seed worth sowing, a thought worth thinking.
And most of all you will have been courageous...a commodity to often in short supply.
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"Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of information."
Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian minister
"When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."
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Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
"v. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should have a wide readership."
James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
"Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."
Daniel Allen Butler, author of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard
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