11-15-2015 - #realitycheck Week #4 - Compassion

Topic Breakdown:  Studies show that, over the last 20 years, we actually care considerably less about other people.  And these studies argue that technology overwhelms us with all the information in the world that we feel like we simply cannot care.  And yet, God calls us to be compassionate.  We’re going to talk about compassion, and specifically, how and why social media and technology are actually causing people to care less about other people, which, honestly, as followers of Christ, is totally and completely unacceptable.  In fact, the University of Michigan did a comprehensive study on 14,000 college students between the years 1979 and 2009.  And what they found was that there was a drastic decline in empathy.  In fact, the results of this massive study showed that we care 40 percent less about other people than we did in the 1980s – 40 percent.

THE POINT: We need to understand that true compassion demands action. To say that you care, but not act, is to not care at all.