Ecclesiastes 4
- Ecclesiastes 4:4-16
- Steve Hart
- Oct 4, 2009
- Series: Ecclesiastes: Life Under the Sun
Solomon turns from death and despair to consider human relationships, and leads off with this penetrating insight: at a core level, we are all anti-neighbor. We feel like we are in competition with one another, and constantly trying to prove our worth by outperforming one another. This effects all of our relationships, making real, vulnerable, intimate relationship something beyond our grasp. How can we become the kind of community that overcomes this twisted motivation?