A company was hiring new staff. One question in the written application was:
You are driving your car in a wild stormy night. You pass by a bus station, and you see three people waiting for the bus: an old lady who looks as if she is about to die, a doctor who had once saved your life, a man/woman you have been dreaming to be with. You can only take one passenger in your car. Which one will you choose? Please explain your answer.
Think about it before you continue reading.
This must be some kind of personality test. Every answer has its reasoning.
"There seems to be a need in human beings to see evil and combat it outside oneself, in order not to see it inside oneself. But the struggle is inside of each person and inside each community; it is against all the powers of pride, elitism, hate and depression that are there and which hurt and crush others, and which cause division and war of all sorts. The enemy is inside, not outside.”
An older woman recently returned from her home town in North Carolina and told a friend they'd spruced up the churchyard cemetery since her last visit several years past. "Lots of new greenery," she said. "And families are together now."
Stephen Fry says the misery of the world is not our fault. He's wrong. This message looks at how sin (and suffering) entered the world.
"We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church."