Church of the Rock: Weekend Messages
The Genuine Article - Pt. 3 Authentic Generosity
Sep 27, 2026 · 45 min · 12 segments
No one has ever became poor by giving. - Anne Frank
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Mark HughesHost
Church of the Rock: Weekend Messages
Sep 27, 2026 · 45 min · 12 segments
No one has ever became poor by giving. - Anne Frank
Mark HughesHost
Can anyone give me, and shout it out, give me the opposite of generosity? What is it? I heard a couple of people say it, but most of you said stinginess, and that's not entirely untrue.
But the opposite of generosity is actually greed, right? So generosity is what? Giving away.
And you know, my concern is that this counterfeit world that we live in now is predominantly motivated by greed.
How many of you grew up in a home where you played the game Monopoly? How many played the game enough? He's mostly in the room.
The goal of the game was to get filthy rich and to bankrupt your friends and your family so they had to leave the game.
You have to go sit in the corner like for half an hour or an hour and nobody even gives you a thought, right? Because they bankrupted you and they sent you out of the game.
There was this study that was done with students at the University of Berkeley, and the social scientists wanted to figure this out.
What he did was he brought in these students, and he had them play Monopoly one-on-one, but the game was rigged, and they actually knew it was rigged.
And how it worked was they rolled dice, and the person who got the highest roll of the dice got a slight advantage of the game.
And the advantage was this, is that he got or she got to use two dice instead of one die.
They got twice as much money to begin and twice as much money when they passed go.
So they know that 100% of the advantage players, without exception, are going to win the game.
Can anyone give me, and shout it out, give me the opposite of generosity? What is it? I heard a couple of people say it, but most of you said stinginess, and that's not entirely untrue.
But the opposite of generosity is actually greed, right? So generosity is what? Giving away.
And you know, my concern is that this counterfeit world that we live in now is predominantly motivated by greed.
How many of you grew up in a home where you played the game Monopoly? How many played the game enough? He's mostly in the room.
The goal of the game was to get filthy rich and to bankrupt your friends and your family so they had to leave the game.
You have to go sit in the corner like for half an hour or an hour and nobody even gives you a thought, right? Because they bankrupted you and they sent you out of the game.
There was this study that was done with students at the University of Berkeley, and the social scientists wanted to figure this out.
What he did was he brought in these students, and he had them play Monopoly one-on-one, but the game was rigged, and they actually knew it was rigged.
And how it worked was they rolled dice, and the person who got the highest roll of the dice got a slight advantage of the game.
And the advantage was this, is that he got or she got to use two dice instead of one die.
They got twice as much money to begin and twice as much money when they passed go.
So they know that 100% of the advantage players, without exception, are going to win the game.
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