PECKING ORDER
A few years ago a minor scientific discovery of the “pecking order” among hens caught popular imagination. Within a flock of hens, one is dominant. She pecks away at any that arouse her displeasure. After the first or second attempt, they no longer peck back. Instead, they take out their resentment and frustration upon one another, always in descending order, until finally one comes to the lowliest hen in the flock, pecked at by all, pecking back at none, just standing around and looking miserable. No doubt you have been in homes where something akin to the pecking order is well established. Dare you say that these human barnyards are Christian homes? The henhouse has order, but it is not Christian order. By Andrew W. Blackwood, Jr., Proclaiming in the New Testament Galatians and Ephesians, Sermon Illustrations from The Pentecostal Minister, Winter, 1988
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