John Carver Show - Skip the Rest Stop Sometimes

This is from a sermon I shared on April 3, 2016.  Some of what I shared is:

Opportunities can be missed very easily.

Groupon's Andrew Mason turned down a $6 billion offer from Google

Andrew Mason turned down a $6 billion buyout offer from Google. Instead, he opted to take Groupon public. The IPO raised $700 million, and the company was briefly valued at more than $12 billion.

But the stock promptly tanked after Groupon missed earnings forecasts and struggled with its accounting and in 2013, Mason was fired. Today shares are trading under $8 and the company has a market cap of about $5 billion.

Source: Information found in National Geographic, May 2001.

Marco Polo is one of the most famed explorers of history. It seems he inherited the travel bug from his father. In 1260, when Marco polo was 6, his father and uncle traveled to Mongolia (part of modern day China). When they arrived there the Mongol emperor revealed an interest in Christianity. He asked the brothers to take a letter to the Pope requesting as many as 100 wise men to spread the Gospel among his subjects.

Three years later the brothers arrived home, and two years later set out on their return trek. Did they take the 100 wise men with them? No. Just two friars, for this was all the church felt they could spare. And even those two didn’t make it, turning back shortly into their journey.

What a tragedy! Imagine if the Kublai’s request had been fulfilled. Perhaps the whole history of China may have been changed.

So, Elisha followed/served Elijah for quite a while.

This is a story of being given an opportunity to REST (“STAY HERE”) instead of continuing to keep moving forward.

2 Kings 2:1-14 - Parts of a story about Elijah and Elisha.