In his sermon, “Power,” Howard Hendricks immediately gains a roomful of listeners with an introduction that reminds us our culture is a mess:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.
“What a perceptive parable of our generation. We live in a society in which everything nailed down is coming loose. Things that people said could not happen are happening. Thoughtful though unregenerate people are asking, ‘Where is the glue to reassemble the disintegration and disarray?’…
“Then we usually seek someone to blame. I saw an intriguing piece of graffiti in the city of Philadelphia some time ago. Scratched across the wall were these words: HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS PUSHED.”
Hendricks goes on to show that only Christ has the power to straighten out our culture.