Excellence
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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In every endeavor, there is an excellence. A man can be excellent in his field, regardless or what it may be, or excellent at his undertaking, also regardless of what it may be. There are excellent paintings, excellent poems, excellent plays, excellent athletic performances, excellent shoes, and a whole host of other things that one could only begin to list. A part of the Christian life is recognizing the existence of excellence and then aiming for it.
Not all men can achieve the same level of excellence, not even all men engaged in the same field, but every man can recognize excellence and strive toward it. Further, we must recognize, respect, and honor excellence when and where we find it, instead of giving in to the tendency of the modern world to minimize and dismiss it. The man who is excellent in his field has achieved that excellence due both to natural talent (i.e., gifts from God) and hard work (i.e., the acquisition or skill or knowledge); every man, even and often in the mundane, is participating in the same sort of striving toward excellence.
We all see the man who wins some top athletic honor with his excellent performance, but what we do not see is the tens of thousands of hours of practice that went into that performance. Excellence does not fall from the sky (even if the gifts of God essentially do so), but is pursued with motivation and determination — it is a purpose toward which one strives. As Christians, we should recognize that all excellence is a gift from God, and we should honor and respect it when and where we find it, and then we should use it to motivate our own efforts, instead of joining the world in sarcasm or indifference.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler, and I'm still, whoa. On today's |
| 0:44.7 | Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing the subject of excellence. This is a little bit of a |
| 0:49.7 | continuation of last week's episode where we talked about purpose and motivation. It was inspired by a conversation |
| 0:55.2 | Corey and I were having sometime in the last week where we were discussing what the new earth might be |
| 1:00.8 | like with regard to our bodies, the perfection of our bodies, to what degree, speculatively, |
| 1:06.1 | might they become more excellent than they are. Purely, you know, idle speculation. And I don't |
| 1:10.7 | know if we'll even get into it today, |
| 1:12.0 | but it made me realize something that inspired this episode, |
| 1:15.2 | which is that there is a feminization that has taken place in the culture |
| 1:20.9 | that were all participants in men and women. |
| 1:23.7 | And when I say feminization, I'm not being insulting to women here, |
| 1:28.8 | but there's a particular aspect of the female psyche that we've talked about on several occasions, including the |
| 1:34.2 | leadership episode most conspicuously. |
| 1:37.4 | Women have a tendency towards equalization, towards egalitarianism, where if someone is superior by some measure, the tendency |
| 1:46.9 | is to be a crap in a bucket. It's just inherent to how girls interact socially with each other. |
| 1:52.6 | It's just how it works. And the feminization aspect that concerns us here this week is that |
| 1:58.7 | that has entered into how all of us think and talk about |
| 2:02.6 | everything around us, such that when we see something that is more excellent by whatever |
| 2:07.4 | degree, the tendency is to tear it down. When you see something excellent, you don't say, |
| 2:12.6 | wow, that's amazing. I'm impressed. I'm blessed to have seen this incredible thing, to have seen someone do something at their peak. |
| 2:20.3 | It just blew me away. I can't believe they were able to do that as a human being. But there it is. I saw it with my own eyes. |
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