Attention Funnel: Food-Eating Contests
Introduction:
- Often in this life we take good things and we end up misusing them.
- We hope to get more out of them then what they really offer.
- Rather than accepting the good things for what they are, we take them and try to make them what gives us life, purpose, meaning, and satisfaction.
- Rather than accepting Hot Dogs as a thing to be enjoyed, people take them and try to eat as many as they can in order to win a prize,
- One of the ways we do this as humans is that we take pleasure and make it the end all of life.
- Solomon is going to test this way of life out for us… he’s going to put pleasure to the test, to see if it can give him the meaning and satisfaction in life that he craves for.
- And spoiler alert, He is going to find that it comes up empty.
Big Idea: Pleasure is a good gift from God.
Passage: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11; 2:24-26
Main Points:
- Pleasure is not the problem
- Pleasure unhinged from God is the problem.
- Enjoy pleasure as a gift from God.
Keystone Youth 