"What would you do?" I don't watch the show much but it is always interesting to see the scenarios they create and the way that total strangers react. Sometimes the scenario is the need of an individual. Sometimes the scenario is the outlandish and sometimes even offensive behavior of a person. It's always interesting to see how people respond to a given situation.
Psychologytoday.com describes bystander effect like this: "The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others hinders an individual from intervening in an emergency situation. Social psychologists Bibb Latané and John Darley popularized the concept following the infamous 1964 Kitty Genovese murder in Kew Gardens, New York. Genovese was stabbed to death outside her apartment three times, while bystanders who reportedly observed the crime did not step in to assist or call the police. Latane and Darley attributed the bystander effect to the diffusion of responsibility (onlookers are more likely to intervene if there are few or no other witnesses) and social influence (individuals in a group monitor the behavior of those around them to determine how to act). In Genovese's case, each onlooker concluded from their neighbors' inaction that their own help was not needed."
Dear Christians - what will you do?
We live in a world that whether they know it or not, whether they agree with us or not, whether they feel like it or not, is largely on their way to the greatest disaster, ever. As horrendous the Genovese case was, it is an even greater tragedy when we see people walking toward the end of a cliff, an eternity in hell. What will you do?
We have just the Savior for them.
We have just the message to share with them.
We have a message that speaks for itself. Share it and let that message loose on 'em. Charles Spurgeon once said that we didn't need to defend the Bible because it was like a lion. Nobody has to do defend a lion. We just let it loose to defend itself. So let the message loose and it will do its work.
Don't just stand there. Stand up and tell them.
Who will you tell? Pray for them. Pray for opportunities to tell them. Pray for the words to tell them.
Then, get up and tell them as God gives you the opportunity.
Psychologytoday.com describes bystander effect like this: "The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others hinders an individual from intervening in an emergency situation. Social psychologists Bibb Latané and John Darley popularized the concept following the infamous 1964 Kitty Genovese murder in Kew Gardens, New York. Genovese was stabbed to death outside her apartment three times, while bystanders who reportedly observed the crime did not step in to assist or call the police. Latane and Darley attributed the bystander effect to the diffusion of responsibility (onlookers are more likely to intervene if there are few or no other witnesses) and social influence (individuals in a group monitor the behavior of those around them to determine how to act). In Genovese's case, each onlooker concluded from their neighbors' inaction that their own help was not needed."
Dear Christians - what will you do?
We live in a world that whether they know it or not, whether they agree with us or not, whether they feel like it or not, is largely on their way to the greatest disaster, ever. As horrendous the Genovese case was, it is an even greater tragedy when we see people walking toward the end of a cliff, an eternity in hell. What will you do?
We have just the Savior for them.
We have just the message to share with them.
We have a message that speaks for itself. Share it and let that message loose on 'em. Charles Spurgeon once said that we didn't need to defend the Bible because it was like a lion. Nobody has to do defend a lion. We just let it loose to defend itself. So let the message loose and it will do its work.
Don't just stand there. Stand up and tell them.
Who will you tell? Pray for them. Pray for opportunities to tell them. Pray for the words to tell them.
Then, get up and tell them as God gives you the opportunity.
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