Rev. Zach

First Presbyterian Church - Lafayette, Louisiana February 12, 2012 - Epiphany (6B) 2 Kings 5:1-14 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Mark 1:40-45 One of my favorite scenes from the movie The Jungle Book is the one with the Buzzards sitting on the tree trying to figure out what to do. They ask each other, “Hey! What do you want to do?” “I don’t know. What do you want to do?” over and over because no one wants to make a decision. In the corporate world this is called paralysis by analysis. In the book Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell, he describes a situation in which our military staged war games in the Persian Gulf in 2002 - just prior to invading Iraq. Paul Van Riper, a retired Lieutenant General and a Marine with experience in Vietnam, was asked to play the part of a rouge dictator bent on destabilizing the Gulf and threatening US interests. He was given limited resources and challenged by the full weight of the United States military - and he won. Why? Well, according to Gladwell, it was because ...