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The Christian life is never stagnant. It's a lifestyle that embraces change. One could argue it's all about changing and transforming into being as close to Jesus as possible. One conversion from the New Testament was as dramatic as they come. Today we'll hear FPC lay pastor Christian Schroppel tell us what it takes to be an adopter of change. He also let's us in on some of the changes that are coming up in his life.

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KINDNESS OR BLINDNESS
Words & Music By Rhob Elliott
© 2017, 2025, Awful Racket Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved

[Verse 1]
I open my hands
Lay my heart on the line
Offer you warmth
Give you all of my time
A soft-spoken word
A shelter from rain
All of the ways 
I can ease your pain

[Pre-Chorus]
But love ain’t a game
It ain’t a disguise
You take it for granted
You’re closing your eyes

[Chorus]
Kindness or blindness
The choice is on you
Will you take what I give
Or turn from the truth?
You can walk in the light
Or stay lost in the night
Kindness or blindness
It’s yours to decide

[Verse 2]
A touch when you’re trembling
A voice when you’re weak
I’ll stand in the silence 
When you can’t even speak
I’ll build you a bridge 
When you’re drowning in doubt
But burn it to ashes
And I’ll shut you out

[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause love ain’t a well 
That never runs dry
Drink up the poison
You’re closing your eyes

[Build]
Blind to your longing
Blind to your pain
Blind to the nights that you cried in the rain
Blind to your whisper
Blind to your call
Blind to your rise and blind to your fall
Blind to your dreams
Blind to your plans
Blind to the reach of your trembling hands
Blind to the moment
Blind to the past
Blind to the fact that this love couldn’t last

[Bridge]
You could have had roses
But you let them wilt
You could have had mercy
But drowned in your guilt
I won’t beg, I won’t plead
I won’t try to rewind
If you throw love away
You’ll only find…

[Final Chorus]
Kindness or blindness
The road splits in two
Will you open your heart
Or stay lost in the blue?
You can walk in the light
Or fade into the fight
Kindness or blindness
It’s your fate tonight

[Outro]
I gave you the choice
Now I walk away
You chose the darkness
Now sit in the shade

KINDNESS OR BLINDNESS

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on on his discussion about how "value blindness" and "value delusion" figure into the dynamic of ressentiment. In the course of this discussion, Scheler references his earlier work Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values, where he develops these concepts in relation to hierarchies of values.

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