524. See People As People | Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

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This week, Paul reminds us to see other people as people in 2024.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.
0:14.8	Today, we'll be listening to an episode of Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast, where I read aloud Paul's popular Wednesday's Word
0:21.4	devotional. If you'd like to subscribe to this podcast channel, search for Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word
0:26.7	wherever you listen to podcasts. Here's this week's Wednesday's Word podcast.
0:44.3	I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Tripp Ministries team.
0:47.3	Join me each week as I read aloud Paul's popular Wednesday's Word devotional.
0:51.2	You can subscribe to our email list to receive this devotional straight to your inbox each week, or you can read online at paultrip.com
0:58.0	or on Facebook, Instagram, and the Paul Tripp app. This week, Paul reminds us to see other
1:04.5	people as people in 2024. Here's this week's Wednesday's word.
1:23.5	Several weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks, I had a heart-wrenching conversation with a manager of one of the restaurants in the World Trade Centers.
1:27.1	He told me, I can't get over the grief that I never saw the 250 people who worked for me as people.
1:34.0	They were waiters, chefs, busboys, hosts, event planners, but they weren't people to me.
1:41.1	And over the last three weeks, I've gone to funeral after funeral and sat with
1:45.1	their moms and dads, husbands and wives and children, and heard the stories of their lives.
1:50.8	Now they are people to me, but now they're gone. He wept as he told me that story. I wept as I
1:57.4	listened. It's hard not to get emotional thinking back to that story today,
2:01.7	22 years later. And it's hard not to feel guilt. I think this attitude is typical of many of us.
2:08.4	I know it's true for me. I often don't see people as people. It's the barista whose job it is to
2:15.3	create my perfect coffee order. It's the supermarket assistant who is there to speed up my process on the self-checkout
2:21.3	scanner.
2:22.3	It's the waiter who exists to get me my delicious meal without any delays or mistakes.
2:27.3	Do you see people as people?
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