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Front Page: Why Work Matters (Est. 2:19) Chris Altrock – Oct. 16, 2016

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There’s a lot more that goes on in someone’s work that you might guess.

Take preaching.

Last week my colleague Eric was rudely attacked by a rogue wasp while he was preaching in the late service. Repeatedly the wasp came at him. Like a miniature jet fighter honing in on a target it aimed for his face as he preached away. He had to swat and preach, swat and preach. I wasn’t present, but I watched the video. It was the most heroic preaching effort I’ve ever seen. Finally, Wasim Khokhar, longtime Highland member, killed the wasp, and laid it at Eric’s feet.

Sometimes there’s a lot more that goes on in someone’s work than you might have ever guessed.Front Page: Why Work Matters (Est. 2:19) Chris Altrock – Oct. 16, 2016

Go:901 Love Shows (Rom. 5:8) Chris Altrock – Sept. 11, 2016

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I Agree

If you’ve ever bought a new app for your phone or updated software on our iPad or on your computer, or if you’ve ever signed up for a new loyalty card online, you’ve seen a lengthy legal terms of service agreement. Before you could proceed with the software update or the purchase of the loyalty card, you had to indicate that you read that statement and click the button that said “agree.”

Raise your hand if you’ve ever read it before you clicked the button that said “agree.”

Jonathan Obar at York University says that it would take the average person 40 minutes a day, every day, for a year to fully read all of these legal service agreement statements which we encounter. Thus, most of us never read them. We just click, “Agree.”

To test this, Obar and a colleague conducted an experiment where they tried to get people to sign up for a new social network site called “Name Drop.” When people signed up, there was a typical service agreement that popped up on the computer screen. The user had to click “agree” in order to use the service. Buried in the agreement were two disclosures. Go:901 Love Shows (Rom. 5:8) Chris Altrock – Sept. 11, 2016