Archive
Have Your Say
View RSS feed
October - The Month of the Pursuit of Pleasure
-
Triple R Discussion Group
7th October, 2011
10:41amTriple R Sunday October 2, 2011.
Review, Reflect, Respond
After service discussion on Dr Macnab’s address: Our most fundamental appetite. The pursuit of pleasure.
How it can enhance our lives.
Review:
• Competing pleasures around us.
-Some drive us.
-Pleasures that enhance us.
• Bringing pleasure to others lives, is the investment worth it?
• Notice how some people choose to be unhappy.
• The place of pleasure in life.
• Feelings of guilt in seeking pleasure.
• The attitude: Is it right we should have this pleasure.
Reflect:
• The Old Faith gave a confused message about pleasure, often leaving its hearers with feelings of guilt when seeking pleasure.
• The New Faith teaches pleasures that enhance us add beauty to our lives and make us healthier.
• Parable of the sower teaches awareness of best human possibilities.
-The life that flourishes understands how the important element of pleasure enhances life.
- Whereas the seed that falls in rocky ground shrivels and dies.
* The healthy pursuit of pleasure is part of growth.
* Childhood pleasures seem distant but can be rediscovered in older years.
Respond:
• Understand and shed the feeling of guilt that hinders the pursuit of pleasures that enhances life.
• The new faith encourages proactive conversation about the important human element of pleasure – If seed falls in the right place it grows.
• The new faith brings energy, to seek out the pleasures that enhance us during the pain that life sometimes brings.
• The new faith encourages the pursuit of pleasures that enhance life; so important in the communities we live and work in.