Humorous Wedding Speech: Chosen By Who?

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My fellow weasels, you have been chosen. Chosen by whom? Chosen for what? Your inquiries are fair. For now, let’s start with this. You have been chosen by a stranger, someone you have never seen, heard, or met. This stranger, a rather generous stranger, has chosen you and bestowed upon you a car. What a lucky day!
Now with this car, I am going to lay out a few scenarios, but in reality, remember, the options are limitless. Option one, you can drop everything you’re doing and take this car—it’s already gassed up, wow—and drive right down the interstate to thank this wonderful stranger for all he’s given you. When you find him you might be inclined to fall on your knees and worship him—but no pressure. Option two, you can cruise around …show more content…
Frank and Sylvia Pasquerilla did enough by providing a roof over our head; who are we to hope that they might also donate forty-something cars for our whole section? While this tale was highly unbelievable, it brings me to introduce the real point of this section meeting. You have been chosen. By whom? By God. For what? For justification. If believing the tale about the kind stranger and the many, many cars was difficult, I would also expect that you would have trouble grappling with this. But in many ways, these two scenarios are …show more content…
As outlined in the beginning, our options of responding to God are almost equivalent. The Bible tells us many stories of those chosen by God and their responses. On one hand we have Abraham who provides an exemplary response. When God calls out, Abraham clears readily responds, “Here I am!” (Genesis 22:1). He leaves everything behind to follow God’s promise and build a relationship with him. Another strong example comes from disciples in Gospel of Matthew. Jesus goes out to the Sea of Galilee and calls out to some fishermen. They immediately leave their nets and follow him (Matthew 4:20). On the other hand, however, the Bible also shows us a few examples of less than stellar responses. When God calls the prophet Jonah to preach to the Ninevites, Jonah disobeys and runs away (Jonah 1:1-16). Jonah not only shows us what its like to ignore God’s call, but in fact, he shows us how to actively reject God’s invitation. Jonah is practically taking a sledgehammer to the brand new car that’s been given to
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