Mike's 'bucket' reflection on perspective, privilege, and humility
Introduced on-air as Mike's takeaway, a host delivers a long reflection on 'pulling from your bucket': all of his COVID opinions come from a privileged lens (essential worker, healthy, living in the country), which is a selfish way to evaluate the situation. He notes Joe Diffie's death made the virus personal, admits he does not know the right answers on lockdowns, and says filtering everything through a screen that says his own name on it is not a loving-people worldview; the call is to a servant heart. Other hosts agree that judging everything only from your own perspective is the height of selfishness, and apply the same point to reading Revelation as if two thousand years of readers did not exist.
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