{"id":2311,"date":"2012-10-02T06:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2012-09-05T18:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T22:40:22","slug":"do-for-one-what-you-wish-you-could-do-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2012\/10\/do-for-one-what-you-wish-you-could-do-for-everyone.html","title":{"rendered":"Do for One What You Wish You Could Do for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here are a few recent sermons about God’s care for the forgotten:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n04\/15\/12 “Who Adopts?”<\/a>\u00a0(Beth Guckenberger)
\n04\/08\/12 Easter “Stained Glass Savior”<\/a>\u00a0(Chad)
\n04\/01\/12 “Who Provides?”<\/a>\u00a0(Chad Hovind)
\n03\/25\/12 “Who Cares?”<\/a>\u00a0(Doug Daily)
\n03\/18\/12 “Who Remembers?”<\/a>\u00a0(Chad Hovind)
\n03\/11\/12 “Who Feeds?”<\/a>\u00a0(Chad Hovind)
\n03\/04\/12 “Who Sees?”<\/a>\u00a0(Chad Hovind)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.\u00a0 This principle I learned from a leader named Andy Stanley. \u00a0To combat under-reacting, we must remind ourselves to \u201cDO UNTO ONE\u201d like we wish we could do to everyone. I may not be able to help everyone, but I can help one. I can give to ONE, like I wish I could do for everyone.\u00a0 What I like about this principle is that it flies in the face of something we heard as a child that made us mad, but we find ourselves saying it now as adults. \u00a0\u00a0This phrase is something we need to stop saying!! \u00a0Here it is, you would come to a teacher, to the HR department, or to the coach and ask for something… and they would say, \u201cIf I let you do it, I have to let Everyone do it!!!\u2019 \u00a0\u00a0You would turn to the coach and say, “Can I have one of those,\u201d and he\u2019d reply, \u201cIf I give you one, I have to give everyone one.\u201d \u00a0Then you turn to mom and dad when you get home, \u201cCan I do such and such..\u201d And they\u2019d say, \u201cIf I let you do it, I have to let everyone do it.\u201d \u00a0This ridiculous phrase (which isn\u2019t rational) is about control. It\u2019s about containment. It teaches that \u201cIf I do for ONE, I HAVE to do for everyone…. Since I CAN\u2019T DO IT FOR EVERYONE, I won\u2019t do it for one!\u201d \u00a0\u00a0So nothing gets done in the company, on the team, because we are so scared of things \u201cgetting out of control\u201d or the \u201ctyranny of the exception.\u201d\u00a0 And when you and I heard this as kids, we thought, \u201cNo you don\u2019t! You can just let me go. \u00a0I won\u2019t tell anyone.\u00a0 You don\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0\u00a0You don\u2019t have to do for everyone, what you do for one.\u00a0 Instead we need to DO FOR ONE WHAT WE WISH WHAT WE WISH WE COULD DO FOR EVERYONE. \u00a0SO we end up doing for NO ONE, since we can\u2019t do for everyone. \u00a0\u00a0So the question is \u201cWho\u2019s the one?\u201d<\/p>\n