It’s Car Quiz time!! We’re reviewing facts and trivia from previous episodes on peer pressure, motion sickness, bullying, food allergies, and crowd conformity. You don’t have to stress about this quiz! It’s just fun going back over this last week and seeing what we remember… and if you’ve forgotten a bunch, then this review will help “lock it in!”
What’s New!
Monday Story:
- See how much you can remember from our episodes on going against the crowd with our car quiz!
Tuesday Key Verse:
- Galatians 1:10 – ” I am not trying to please people. I want to please God. Do you think I am trying to please people? If I were doing that, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
Wednesday Prayer:
- Dear God, thank you that I can make choices about who I listen to and what I do. Thank you that I can do what’s right, no matter who is against me. In the name of Jesus, amen.
Thursday Question:
- What is your favorite fact you learned about a crowd in this series?
Friday Fun Fact:
- Q: What is your favorite fact you learned about a crowd in this series?
Show Notes:
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Transcription:
You’re listening to God on the Go, part of the Purposely Podcast network, and I’m your host, Julie Lyle Carr. We have been in a series where we’ve been talking about what it means to go against the crowd or when the crowd goes against you, and today is the day that we have our car quiz. You get to review and see if you know the answers to some of the facts and trivia that we have been talking about over the last few episodes. So, if you haven’t listened to this series yet about going against the crowd, go back, take a listen, and then meet me back here and we will take the car quiz. Let’s see how you do.
Okay, so let’s dive right in. We talked about in the very first episode how we can feel when we have peer pressure, meaning when all the crowd’s doing something and we decide we’re not going to do it. So the question was this. How many people say they’ve experienced peer pressure? Do you remember? I can tell you this. It’s a really big percentage. So guess big. The answer. 85% of people say they have experienced peer pressure by the time they get to high school. So that is most of us. Most of us know what it means to have somebody or a group try to push us to do something that we’re not so sure we should do. That’s peer pressure.
Do you remember this episode we were talking about the beatitudes? That’s when Jesus talks about things in a way that we often don’t think of it that way. He talks about that if people are putting us down or being mean to us, that we could actually see that as a blessing. He shows us that we need to think about things in a different way sometimes, in a different way than the crowd might think about it. There are people who think that anything that spins around at an amusement park, they call that fun and I don’t because I have something called motion sickness. So the trivia question from that episode was, What percentage of people get motion sick? I’ll give you a second to think through it. 25% of people get motion sickness at an amusement park or in the car or on a plane, or even in a movie. That means out of four people, one of them in that situation is probably going to start feeling motion sick.
Okay, so then we talked about in our series against the crowd, about how sometimes the crowd will make fun of people who are different. Sometimes you get made fun of because of your hair color or because you dropped your books on the floor or because somebody says you’re wearing the wrong kind of shoes. There are all kinds of things that we make fun of each other for. So here was the question: How many people are made fun of in school? One in five kids between the ages of 12 to 18 say that they’ve been made fun of. That they’ve been bullied. That’s a lot. And so we want to be the kind of people that stand up for the people who are getting made fun of or being bullied. And if we are the one who’s being made fun of, we want to make sure that we’re talking to a teacher, to our parent, to someone we can trust who can help us in that situation. Because making fun of others, bullying people, it’s a big deal.
Then I told you about my son’s girlfriend and the allergies that she has to certain foods, and we talked about Daniel Meshack, Shadrach, and Abednego, who made a decision to not eat what everybody else was eating. Even though all that seemed fine for other people, they were very careful to not go with the crowd to make sure they were doing what was right for them and what God had shown them even on something that might not be bad, just might not be something that was good for them. So because I told you about my son’s girlfriend’s allergies, I had this really interesting statistic. Do you know how many people in the United States have food allergies? It’s a lot. It’s a really, really, really big number. Are you ready? The answer is 20 million people. I mean, that is a lot of people. And so just because something is good for most people, doesn’t mean it’s good for everybody. And sometimes you have to go against the crowd to make sure you’re doing what’s good for you, what God has shown you.
I shared with you on an episode how I ran for student class president and I really thought I was going to win until this super popular guy at the very last minute decided he was going to run for student class president. And of course he won. And so sometimes the crowds for you and then sometimes the crowd can turn against you. And one of the facts that we looked at that I thought was really interesting was what makes more people go with the opinions of a crowd? Okay, here we go. The answer is the bigger the crowd, the more likely you’re going to follow them. As it turns out researchers tell us that it’s a whole lot easier to stand up for your own opinion for the thing that you think you’re supposed to do, to do something different. If you’re in a group of 10 or less, there’s something about being part of a bigger crowd that will tend to go with what that crowd is doing, the bigger it is.
Okay, here’s the last trivia question. Are you ready? We talked about Peter who was one of Jesus’s closest friends, but at the time that Jesus was arrested and was being questioned, Peter said that he didn’t even know who Jesus was. When a crowd came around Peter and was saying, Hey, we think that this guy Jesus, Peter was like Jesus who? He just acted like he didn’t know him at all. And we talked about a specific word. What’s another word for going along with what the crowd is saying? The word is conformity. It’s kind of a big word, but conformity means when you’re trying to blend in with what everybody else is doing and saying, that you are trying to make sure that you don’t stand out. And that’s what Peter was trying to do when he said he didn’t know who Jesus was. He was trying to conform to what he thought the crowd was. So that word is conformity.
Alright, well I want to wrap up the car quiz. How did you do? I want to hear how you did and I want us to close out this whole series that we’ve done on going against the crowd with this verse from Galatians 1:10.
I am not trying to please people. I want to please God, do you think I’m trying to please people? If I were doing that, I would not be a servant of Christ.
I hope that you have learned some things about how to stand, how to go against the crowd, and I’m really excited for us to jump into our next series. We’re going to talk about what it means to be distracted, and that’s kind of an interesting word, right? So we’re going to be talking about that. So I’ll see you here next week. A big thank you to our sponsor, George Fox University, where each student will be known personally, academically, and spiritually.
