The Need to Share

So the question is, what are we going to do with all this free time? It brings us back to the question posed to young wealthy Athenians by Socrates, "What is the good life?"

Fogel states, "A half century from now, perhaps sooner, when increases in productivity make it possible to provide goods in abundance with half today's labor, the issue of life's meaning, and other matters of self-realization, will take up the bulk of discretionary time" (p. 192). Self-realization does not mean fulfilling one's desires, but "immersion in the political struggle to create a better world."

According to Fogel, since we mostly have the material goods, we need to focus on the misdistribution of spiritual resources. Fogel has in mind a list of 15 spiritual resources.

Tune in next time for Fogle's list of spiritual resources. However, today can we agree that the almost 500,000 local congregations in America have abundant supplies of spiritual resources they are already sharing with others. However, it is easy to see that we can rather easily expand the efficiency and effectiveness of many congregations, especially now that so many of their members have matured and grown in caring, sharing and bearing burdens.