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*** SHOW NOTES (not a transcript) ***
Lead:
Pop quiz! What’s the only book in the Bible that doesn’t mention God (by name)? Uh…
Intro:
Today’s Kindle deal is better-than-average: Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christianity Answer Book. I don’t know how long it’ll be there, but now you know.
Sponsor:
Bible segment (read along with The Bible Project):
Passage: Esther 1-5
Translation: CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Verses: 99
Words: ~3247
Thinking/reflection segment:
“Decision making” seems like it’d be simple enough to define, but there’s an important distinction to make when we look a little more closely.
Decision making: The process whereby an individual or community chooses a particular course of action that results in specific outcomes. For most people or societies, decision making is guided by a fluctuating set of values, goals, moral obligations and historical precedence. Many ethicists understand the ethical task to be the making of right decisions; hence, they advocate what might be called an ethic of doing. Moreover, ethicists since Socrates have debated two basic approaches to ethical decision making: deontological ethics and teleological ethics. The deontological approach suggests that rightness or wrongness of an act is to be determined by something intrinsic to the act, whereas the teleological approach argues that the consequences of an act determine its moral status. (1)
Wisdom segment: none
Passage:
Translation:
Verses:
Words:
Love you!
-R
Roger Courville, CSP is a globally-recognized expert in digitally-extended communication and connection, an award-winning speaker, award-winning author, and a passionately bad guitarist. Follow him on Twitter -- @RogerCourville and @JoinForTheHope – or his blog: www.forthehope.org.
Sources and resources:
(1) Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith, Pocket Dictionary of Ethics, The IVP Pocket Reference Series (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003), 27.