“I can waste your time as no big deal” – Christ maybe didn’t say it, yet in practice life starts to sound like that.
A Church that doesn’t see an hour of time as precious, as an hour of my time as worth protecting is a problem. It is not Golden Rule, it is not ideal delivery on James 4:17.
Just waste my time until I am irrelevant leads to the competition winning. Possible or not possible? Can be turned up without trying to or can’t be turned up without trying to? Church and society as less than ideal sin out, less than ideal injustice reduced – it takes us all on journeys, journeys that might have the destination set as irrelevant, can’t fix that. Won’t have time to fix that – can’t guarantee I won’t be diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, but delay is valuable.
An hour or 10 years – not precious is not precious.
Imagine being left on the street on repeat. Left homeless, left with injustice as let. Is that an hour that is considered precious, or precious to reinforcing profit in the same hands as always?
Delay lead to profit – what happened to them…. That is non of our concern, it is not on the balance sheet.
All that said it would be unwise to amplify people to be too afraid of wasting each others time. Having access to have a conversation that might save a life? They might need to tell me something important like don’t touch that, High Voltage? Reinforcing my time, all people’s time is valuable, without silencing each other or turning up a society of non-cooperation seems hard, fatally flawed at best.
“We had this awesome party we wanted you at, but your time is so valuable we decided not to invite you.” Reduced open communication channels and vindictive that facilitates profit in more ways than one.
Time is valuable, worth protecting facilitates humanization. There is contrast between the strain, diametrically opposing sides. People want to increase the right kind of conversation and communication while limiting the wrong kind. Imagine you are a lawyer and need to get someone out of jail, yet every lost second counts, counts into the person in jail losing more seconds, yet you are surrounded by small talk you like. Limiting small talk might lead to never hearing – “Don’t walk off that cliff”, not limiting small talk might lead to injustice perpetuated. Buy in cost increased for conversation is significant and consequential.
The person in Jail’s small talk is missing from the conversation. How much do you care? The person in Jail is theoretical, useful for reason and to prove a point, yet in corrupt systems and perpetuated by injustice around the world, theoretical is reality for others. Granted if you free these theoretical people they might not be at your dinner table, yet their conversation missing matters, matters to someone, likely matters to God.
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