Arik Hayes

You see, just turn on the news.

Look at any news outlet.

It's easier to see those things.

Those strings are coming in by the billionths.

And it makes it harder to come up with an example of the thing we're actually going to discuss.

And what we're going to discuss today, this Christian ethic is called honor.

See, just like there was a murmur.

You felt exactly how I felt.

I was like, I can barely come up with something where universally I'm gonna say, hey guys, this is what honor is.

You've heard me preach a couple times.

I come, I'll give a good illustration where I can liken it to, I'll say similarly, and then I'll say here's the natural and here's the spiritual.

I am struggling with the natural here.

Struggling.

There's a couple reasons that's the case.

We in the West have thrown out the culture of honor and adopted the culture wholeheartedly of individualism.

Let me say it a little further.

So we balk and scoff at the general disposition of honor like that doesn't apply to us because we want to give precedence to how we feel about person, place, or thing in the moment.

What does that look like, right?

We just don't want to say, I'm going to honor.

We want to give an opening.