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Misfits
Who remembers this guy?
He’s the Charlie-in-the-box from the island of misfit toys in Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Not a Jack, but a Charlies.
A misfit.
Goes along w/ the Cowboy who rides an ostrich, the bird that swims, the spotted elephant, and the train w/ square wheels on its caboose,.
These misfit toys were exiled to this island because nobody wanted them.
Then, Santa comes along and discovers them w/ Rudolf’s help, and knowing all the kids in the world, he knew which child would want each toy.
So he delivered them where they’d be appreciated and played with.
Santa saw a young, misfit reindeer that had a shiny nose then found a place for him to fit in at the lead of the other 8 tiny reindeer.
Of course, it took the storm of the century and the threat of canceling Christmas for him to realize there was a place for Rudolf.
One of the main themes of Rudolf is that even misfits can fit in.
We all have something to offer.
The other side of that is who of us has never felt like a misfit?
Everyone of us.
Junior high?
High school?
After a divorce?
After you were fired?
Widowed?
I was the only kid whose parents divorced.
That made me different.
Raised by a single mother, we didn’t have much.
Small house, didn’t wear the clothes.
Real or perceived, everybody had more than I did.
I didn’t fit in that crowd.
I certainly wasn’t going to insert myself where I didn’t feel welcome.
Real or perceived...
Too short?
Too tall.
Too poor?
Too rich.
Not attractive enough?
Too heavy?
Too skinny?
Too dumb?
too smart.
Too busy.
Too lazy.
Not athletic.
Dumb jock.
Cheerleader.
Airhead.
Nerd.
Geek.
Goofball.
Wallflower.
Can’t carry a tune in bucket.
Too artsy fartsy.
Your legs?
Your hair?
Your hobbies?
Your house?
We all felt it.
One of these, or something like it.
And, we compensated for it, usually making matters worse.
The geek that tries to fit in and embarrasses himself.
If we just came up with the right plan, changed the right thing, everything would be different and we’d fit it w/ everybody else.
But, everybody feels like misfit sometime.
In fact, I’ll bet most of us here this morning, if we’re being completely honest, feel like a misfit of sorts today.
Who are you trying to fit in w/?
And, as I say this, I’m sure more than one of you said something to the effect of, “Right!
Everybody’s a misfit.
I’m the only one who doesn’t fit here.”
Understand that for what it is.
That’s your pride speaking to you.
That you believe you are so uniquely horrible that you alone are the worst in the room.
Everybody else fits where you don’t.
Beginning to see some of the problem?
What’s the solution?
Jesus.
But, we have problems w/ His solution, too.
This is story of Christmas.
God provided a way for misfits to fit in.
He used misfits in the message then used them to communicate the message.
We’re all messed up misfits living out our illusions.
And, God, in all His wisdom used other misfits to communicate this message to us.
B/C misfits can relate to misfits.
But, we don’t want to relate to misfits.
We want to fit in.
This morning we are looking at .
This is the story of the Misfits and the Message.
The Problem
We live in a broken world filled w/ broken people.
And each one of us is one of the broken ones.
We aren’t victims of the broken world.
We are active participants in the brokenness.
The issues we have are not b/c we didn’t get hugged enough by our fathers or didn’t get breastfed by our mothers.
The problem stems from the fact that we have rebellious hearts.
And, we have them at birth.
This is not learned behavior.
Our hearts are broken.
And, as a result, we break things.
We can’t fix what’s broken.
Science, education, economics, politics all develop plans to fix everything.
And, yet, every developed plan reveals that the developers hearts are broken, rebellious, wicked.
Every culture has recognized this in its own way.
Ancient Greeks had a myth.
Prometheus saw that man was always cold and getting sick from eating raw meat so he gave man fire.
Zeus was furious w/ Prometheus b/c all man did was burn himself.
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